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Va.’s Unconstitutional Broadband Boondoggle

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 ...

Is there no recourse against Suffolk, HRSD?

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 ...

Perplexing pipeline questions

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 ...

High Court 2nd Guesses Chesapeake

High Court 2nd Guesses Chesapeake March 28, 2020 CHESAPEAKE — The city’s decision to cripple a waterfront commercial project planned for Great Bridge has wound its way up to the Virginia Supreme Court. At issue is whether the city had ...

Defending a good name

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 ...

Stopping the spewing

HALIFAX COUNTY, July 2019 — For 10 years, sewage from South Boston regularly overflowed across five acres of Steve Salley’s land just north of town. Salley complained repeatedly to the Halifax County Service Authority about its malfunctioning sewer line running ...