Category: Virginia

Families of 12 Immunocompromised Virginia Children Can Ask Schools to Require Masks: Judge

A federal judge in Virginia on March 23 sided with the families of immunocompromised children who had asked that the schools their children attend require face masks to be worn. The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are the parents of twelve children who suffer from disabilities that they say would put them at significant health risk if they were…


7 Children Hospitalized in Virginia After Overdosing on Sleeping Pills, Police Say

A group of children, all under the age of eight, required hospital treatment on Wednesday for a suspected overdose after they were given sleeping pills by another 7-year-old child, authorities say. The Hopewell Police Department (HPD) responded to an emergency call at the home on South 16th Street in Hopewell around 5:30 p.m. and found…


Certain Schools in Virginia May Require Masks: Judge

Certain schools in Virginia may impose masking requirements despite a state law and executive order that bar such mandates, a federal judge ruled on March 23. Schools where students of parents who sued over the law and order can require masking, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Moon, a Clinton appointee, said in a 5-page preliminary injunction…


Drive Thru History with Dave Stott: Discovering America’s Founders [Episode 3]

This isn’t your typical tour of ruins and dusty artifacts. It’s history as exciting today as it was 200 years ago! Ride along with host Dave Stotts in another installment of the award winning Drive Thru History video series, as he takes a fast-paced drive through American history. Drive Thru History: Discovering America’s Founders, based…


Authorities: Virginia Reporter Among 2 Killed in Shooting

NORFOLK, Va.—A Virginia newspaper reporter was one of two people killed during a shooting early Saturday outside a restaurant and bar, authorities said. Sierra Jenkins, 25, who covered education and schools for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk, died at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital after the shooting outside Chicho’s Pizza Backstage, according to officials. Norfolk police detectives…


In Praise of Cheap

Oh, the mystique that some people ascribe to wine in their rush to canonize it out of all proportion to what it really is, or should be: a beverage. Or the denunciation some people heap on inexpensive bottles. I have heard elitist oenophiles use terms to disparage wine they wouldn’t deign to try. I reflect…


Drive Thru History with Dave Stott: Discovering America’s Founders [Episode 2]

This isn’t your typical tour of ruins and dusty artifacts. It’s history as exciting today as it was 200 years ago! Ride along with host Dave Stotts in another installment of the award winning Drive Thru History video series, as he takes a fast-paced drive through American history. Drive Thru History: Discovering America’s Founders, based…


Drive Thru History with Dave Stott: Discovering America’s Founders [Episode 1]

This isn’t your typical tour of ruins and dusty artifacts. It’s history as exciting today as it was 200 years ago! Ride along with host Dave Stotts in another installment of the award winning Drive Thru History video series, as he takes a fast-paced drive through American history. Drive Thru History: Discovering America’s Founders, based…


When a Hotel Is the Destination: The Cavalier Hotel

The Cavalier Hotel is one of those hotels that’s also a destination in its own right. The stately landmark in Virginia Beach—which is surprisingly Virginia’s largest city—first opened in 1927 atop a hill about two blocks off the beach. This location in the quieter north end feels a world removed from the kitsch shops and…


Virginia Government Releases Report on Efforts to Combat Critical Race Theory in Public Schools

Virginia’s education department has released a 30-day report on actions to rescind programs, polices, and materials involving “discriminatory and divisive concepts,” such as critical race theory (CRT). “The concepts have become widespread in the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and in Virginia school divisions and we will need to proactively review policies, practices, and pedagogies…