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Community Perspective: An open letter to Virginia Senator Tim Kaine
A contributed perspectives piece by Holly Herr Stravers
Community Perspective: AI-based dashboards shedding light on Donald Trump’s misbehaviors
A contributed perspectives piece by Mike Mitri We live in a highly polarized political climate, where misinformation runs rampant on social media, in political discourse, and in some segments of the news media. The power of information technology, including artificial intelligence, is all too often used to deceive and exploit, rather than inform and enlighten. …
Community Perspective: School Board Breaks Promise to Protect Parental Rights
A contributed perspectives piece by Hilary Moore As many know, the Rockingham County School Board recently pulled 57 titles from our school shelves, some in response to parental complaints, others without complaint. By unilaterally pulling books, rather than referring concerned parents to the many tools already available in our schools that help parents control their …
Community Perspective: On Banned Books and Institutional Speech
A contributed perspectives piece by Evan Knappenberger
Community Perspective:Tug of War, Tirades and Tired Hope
A contributed perspectives piece by Melissa Weaver: Our family loves listening to the podcast Circle Round, a diverse collection of dramatized folktales. One of our favorite stories, told in East Africa, Brazil, and parts of the U.S., is called “The Tug of War.”
Statewide environmental news roundup – December 2023 (Part II)
CAAV has been pleased to provide these roundups and hopes to produce occasional updates. In this, our final edition of this series, begun in spring 2020, we bring you only a fraction of the encouraging and discouraging news in our state this month. Some items are mundane, some are technical; some affect many, and some only a few – but these, and other stories too numerous to include, are part of our common reality. Thank you for reading.