Letters To Rural America: Different Roads, Familiar Problems
Letters To Rural America: Different Roads, Familiar Problems
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Public records belong to the public.
Public records belong to the public. That's the whole idea behind the Virginia Freedom of Information Act: Citizens shouldn't need a lawyer or a lobbyist to find out what their government and the authorities it funds are doing on their behalf.
More Than a Marker: Remembering James A. Bland High School
Virginia's segregation laws decided where those children could go to school.
They did not get to decide what those children would become.
The People's Right to Know
From Watergate to Data Centers: Is Rural America's Next Fight About Freedom of Information?
Imagine This Headline: "New Jersey’s Governor Declares a State of Emergency Over Maternity Care Crisis!"
According to the Virginia Department of Health, a maternity care desert is an area where families live more than thirty minutes from obstetrical care, healthcare providers are already in short supply, and poverty makes access even harder.
From Big Stone Gap to Hollywood: The Enduring Legacy of The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
Who was the first American author to sell a million copies of a novel?
If you stopped folks on the street in New York City and asked, you'd probably hear the usual names. Mark Twain. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. William Faulkner. Maybe even John Steinbeck. Few people
Why Americans Vote… and Why They Don't: The Surprising History of Voter Turnout in America
Why Americans Vote… and Why They Don't: The Surprising History of Voter Turnout in America