Last month, President Biden proposed ratcheting up the Pentagon budget to $770 billion, far surpassing Trump’s sky-high military spending. An editorial by Greta Zarro.
America’s ballooning military budget is a boondoggle for Virginia’s taxpayers
In Our Opinion: An Open Letter to Gun Rights Supporters
The Virginia Defender circulated this Open Letter laying out our view of the issues. Someone posted it on the internal blog of the Virginia Citizens Defense League, the group that had called for the mobilization. We reprint it again here in hopes that it will reach more of the people for whom it was intended.
Connect the Dots: I Can STILL See
Queen Nzinga, on Governor Northam’s blackface scandal.
Yes, Gov. Northam should resign – but he’s not the only problem
An editorial by Virginia Defender editor Phil Wilayto on Ralph Northam’s history of racism and the deeper problems this reveals about Virginia’s Democratic Party.
In Our Opinion: 2019
On the upcoming year, an impending anniversary, and race in Virginia.
Virginia’s prisons: Hazardous to women’s health?
Virginia has two women’s prisons: Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, a Level 3 security facility with a capacity of 1,200 located in Troy, and the Virginia Correctional Center for Women, a Level 2 security facility with 609 beds located in Goochland County.
The poisoning of Virginia’s Schoolchildren
A letter to the editor regarding lead contamination in Virginia’s school buildings by Queen Zakia Shabazz.
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