Letter: Vote blue, save America (5/15/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Congressman Wittman is playing fast and free with the truth when he claims President Biden’s policies have failed. But that’s not surprising coming from a man who supports… …
Letter: One crisis after the next (5/15/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: No one man has done more to destroy this country than Joe Biden. I cannot stress that enough. I can only imagine what our country will be like… …
Letter: Women deserve choice (5/15/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: In the late 1950s abortion was illegal. Women were fired when it became known they were pregnant. Child care was non-existent, transportation access scarce. Some women chose what… …
Editorial: Lives are on the line (5/8/2024) - The intersection of Route 17 and Woods Cross Road in northern Gloucester County has been a problem for almost as long as it’s been an intersection. A quick glance at… …
Editorial: What’s next? (5/8/2024) - To those familiar with the delays, the missing mail and other problems that have plagued the USPS Regional Processing and Distribution Center in Henrico County over the past few months,… …
Letter: Appreciate your mother (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Mother’s Day is a special time of the year to appreciate everything that our mothers do for us. I’m so thankful for what my mom does and has… …
Letter: Thanks for the support (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As chairman of the 2024 May Faire festival, I would like to thank Mathews County and the surrounding areas for the support they showed us this year. Above… …
Letter: Thank you, Kristie (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I would like to publicly recognize Kristie Askew for her leadership and tenure as executive director of GUEST as she transitions out of that position into full-time ministry.… …
Letter: Reflections on the eclipse (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I am still totally amazed that our nation and the world received such a shared experience as the April 8 total eclipse. The awe that many felt from… …
Letter: Eye of the beholder (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Former President Trump called the protests in Charlottesville “a beautiful thing” and the January 6th insurrection “a beautiful day.” More recently he cited the protests on the Columbia… …
Letter: Benefits from immigrants? (5/8/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Do you believe the Trump, Wittman, GOP hype that crime is rampant, immigrants are responsible for it and they will take benefits from U.S. citizens? Donald Trump stated… …
Morning cup of coffee (5/8/2024) - In response to this week’s question (“Where do you get your morning coffee?”), 82 of our Facebook followers answered this week’s survey, and the vast majority (68.3 percent) said they… …Editorial: What’s old is new again (5/1/2024) - Demonstrations on campuses across the country bring to mind the late 1960s. This time, the protests are against Israel’s war in Gaza, not because of the justifiable pursuit of Hamas,… …
Editorial: Not journalism (5/1/2024) - What can be tawdrier than a newspaper publisher describing the use of “checkbook journalism,” that is, paying for stories. What’s even more tawdry is using the checkbook to “catch and… …
Editorial: Either/or? (5/1/2024) - Everyone has seen memes like these shared on social media: “Our troops deserve a raise a lot more than college students deserve loan forgiveness.” “Homeless servicemen should come before any… …
Editorial: Brighter days (5/1/2024) - If the national news is getting you down, here is a fact that cannot be disputed and which can only bring cheer. In just one week, the sun will rise… …
Letter: Christianity or Churchianity? (5/1/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Selective reading involves reading something and filtering out what does not suit you and welcoming and embracing what is acceptable to your own viewpoint. So many churches and/or… …
Letter: Truth, trust wanted (5/1/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It’s amazing how people write and perpetuate lies that are so ridiculous, that any person should be moved to go online and look for the proof first. They… …
Letter: A cover-up, perhaps? (5/1/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Attorney General Jason Miyares’s office pledged to have a report written on the murder of three University of Virginia students and the wounding of two others in November… …
How do you embrace your creativity? (5/1/2024) - We asked this question to our Facebook followers and received a variety of responses. Most survey takers said they enjoyed painting, photography and quilting, followed by crochet, music and writing.… …Editorial: You had one job (4/24/2024) - As late as last week, Republican Gov. Youngkin and Democrats in the General Assembly looked as though they were edging closer and closer to mutually assured destruction, at loggerheads over… …
Letter: The Party of ‘No’ (4/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The letter in the April 11 Gazette-Journal (“Why I could never vote for a Democrat,” Readers Write) was interesting, but lacked back-up facts. Paul Ross could have written,… …
Letter: We are out of sand (4/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I think no one says it better than Louisiana Senator John Kennedy when he recently said the following words: “I’m an eternal optimist, but I am also a… …
Letter: Follow the money (4/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: As we see the blatant anti-Semitism on college campuses today, many of us wonder how this can be happening. We learned the history of the Jewish people—the Holocaust,… …
Letter: Truth, trust wanted (4/24/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: A recent article I read, said, “Now is the time we must overlook a poor choice of words.” These are the words to “overlook”: When Trump spoke about… …