Opinion

The Christiansburg of my youth was a very small town, a classic southern hamlet of the era. We really had...

This year’s Juneteenth celebration came and went (Friday, June 19) with very little notice or attention in this area. Locally,...

Gene Shalit was one of the great weird guys of our time as he bought life to all of us....

Well the 4th of July is around the corner. This year is the big one. Usually July 4th comes and...

Driving by the old (and soon to be new) train station in Christiansburg (at its Cambria location) reveals a lot...

Morgan Griffith On June 18, I will return to Richmond to consider what is expected to be a budget document...

Dear editor, An opinion piece recently published in another reginal newspaper urging Virginia to reject the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative...

Dear Editor, I’m just home from a lovely two-week bicycle touring vacation in the chateau-filled Loire Valley of France, confronted...

We are less than 30 days away from a state government shutdown – the first in Virginia’s long history. Democrats...

An interesting commentary last week addressed the need for improving several local roadways. Surprisingly though, the otherwise conservative commentary blamed...