On Thursday morning, I stepped into the Charlottesville courtroom of Judge Richard E. Moore and witnessed the first actual day of trial for James Alex Fields, Jr., the Ohio man who drove his Dodge Challenger into a crowd of anti-racist counter-protesters at the white supremacist rally in August 2017. Fields […]
Monthly Archives: November 2018
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Hagerstown, Md. — To transport gas from the fracking wells in Pennsylvania and Ohio to the Eastern Panhandle, Columbia Gas, a subsidiary of TransCanada, needs to drill under the Potomac at Hancock, Md. But if things go wrong, it could mean disaster for the river and all who depend on […]
At the first public meeting since the announcement of the new Amazon HQ2 location in Crystal City, Arlington County Board members disclosed that it took a backseat to Virginia state government in negotiations to clench the deal with the online retail giant. The Board also said that Virginia limited the […]
Washington, DC — Thousands rallied in hundreds of cities across the country Thursday night after President Trump fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The mass mobilization was triggered by the Sessions’ firing and subsequent installation of Matt Whitaker as acting Attorney General, actions seen as attempts to undermine the investigation being […]
Opponents of the gas pipeline extension that would feed the Rockwool stone wool factory made their feelings very clear to the West Virginia Public Service Commission two weeks ago during a hearing for public comment in Shepherdstown. But, if an evidentiary hearing this morning in Charleston is any sign, the […]
A candidate in a contentious race for Pennsylvania state delegate last year found this morning that her name had been purged from the voter rolls at her polling place in Philadelphia. Cheri Honkala, the Green Party write-in candidate in a 2017 special election, said poll workers couldn’t find her name […]
By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court denied a Trump administration motion to stop a constitutional lawsuit filed by 21 young plaintiffs from going to trial. The lawsuit, Juliana v. United States, asserts that the federal government is depriving youth of rights to life, liberty and property through an […]