Va.’s Unconstitutional Broadband Boondoggle CULPEPPER — This winter, it was hard to find anyone in the General Assembly against the idea of making the balky internet in rural communities run as fast as it does in Virginia’s cities. Now a Rappahannock couple is aiming to call attention to the General Assembly’s unconstitutional action and to…
Sept.24 2020 SUFFOLK — A massive sewage spill into the Nansemond River on Sept. 17 dramatizes the questions of government accountability at the heart of an eminent domain lawsuit brought by Waldo & Lyle that will be heard in November before the Virginia Supreme Court. When the sewage system operated by the City of Suffolk…
Perplexing Pipeline Questions August 4, 2020 Dominion Energy invested more than five years and $3 billion on the 600-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline in an effort to connect Virginia’s urban crescent to natural gas fields in West Virginia. A favorable ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court in June seemed to be the last hurdle for a…
Feb. 2, 2020 CHESAPEAKE — Every year or two, the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers warned the Peterson family against building new doctors’s offices on their commercial corner at the entrance to the Deep Creek Bridge. Every few years, the Petersons asked the same question and got the same assurances. The Corps promised a fair…