Support for Fall Line Trail, but concern over Bryan Park route
Thank you for featuring me as your Personality of the week (Sept. 12-14 edition) and for focusing on the Fall Line Trail through Bryan Park. The article surely will raise awareness of the issue among readers.
Students need encouragement to respect the Black National Anthem
I love going to Virginia Union University football games. So, I’m sending this letter hoping that those who hold positions of leadership at the school will encourage the student body to stand and respect the Black National Anthem “Lift Every …
ER scare highlights need for AFib awareness and regular checkups
Before the presidential debate commenced, my wife and I were in a hospital’s emergency room for 5½ hours because of an unanticipated heart complication (Tachycardia) I began having after drinking a large cup of fast food coffee.
Virginians need to vote like our lives depend on it
Even though the Free Press has stated that Kamala Harris is ahead of Donald Trump in Virginia by a comfortable margin, we cannot rest on those laurels
Rare soul
He made us happy.
The long game
Let’s give it up for the Flying Squirrels organization. They’ve stuck by Richmond, even though the city didn’t seem to appreciate the team in the early days, as they were ridiculed for their unusual moniker.
A trap
On Tuesday evening, the two presidential candidates met for their first debate. It went as many expected. Vice President Kamala Harris used pointed and precise criticisms of her opponent to bait him.
Harris pushes for labor reforms, union support, by Julianne Malveaux
In an election year, Labor Day kicks off the official campaign season, and Vice President Kamala Harris kicked hers off with a bang.
Our nation’s symbols belong to all Americans, by Clarence Page
If you don’t tell a lie, my father used to say, you won’t have to worry about which version of your story you told last.
The figures who helped shape Vice President Harris, by Ben Jealous
When Kamala Harris was sworn in as vice president in 2021, she swore her oath of office on two Bibles.
Youngkin panders about nonexistent voting by noncitizens, by Roger Chelsey
When it comes to hyping phantom voter fraud – most recently by noncitizens reputedly casting ballots in presidential contests, which is already illegal – Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin keeps playing lapdog to Donald Trump. The former president’s lies about the …
Old normal
For many of us, things have returned to a sense of normalcy since the onset of the pandemic in 2020.
Unbalanced
It needs to be said – the Republican nominee isn’t being treated fairly by the mainstream media. I think he might agree with that notion, but it’s becoming more and more difficult to predict what the 78-year-old convicted felon might …
Human cost of restricting abortion access, by David W. Marshall
During the crack epidemic of the ’80s and ’90s, children exposed to crack cocaine be- fore birth were often referred to as “crack babies.”
Dems embrace ‘positive masculinity’, by Clarence Page
In case you somehow haven’t noticed, manhood is on the ballot. Even before President Biden stepped aside to let Vice Presi- dent Kamala Harris step up to be the Democrats’ presiden- tial nominee, insiders from both parties were calling this …
