The dramatic increase in the city’s bus ridership by Liberty University students is one of those classic win-win situations.

With Lynchburg City Council gearing up for another round of appointments to the School Board, now is a good time to renew the call for opening up the process.

How do I despise you? Let me count the ways.

Are racism and xenophobia still alive in the Forest area of Bedford County? It sure looks that way.

When the General Assembly convened in January, there was hope it would shore up spending for the transportation plan it cobbled together last year for the state’s ailing system of highways.

When Lynchburg residents recognized there was something less than harmonious in the relationships between blacks and whites, they did something about it — something positive.

On Monday afternoon in a committee hearing room in the state Capitol, science took a right hook to the chin.

When you knock out one of the legs of a three-legged stool, the inherently wobbly piece of furniture falls. When you knock out all three legs, all you’ve got is a pile of kindling wood.

Monday afternoon in the state Capitol, a very bad piece of legislation died a very quick death on the floor of the state Senate. And our reaction can be summed up in two words: good riddance.

When state lawmakers responded to voters angry about the abusive driver fees enacted a year ago, they set a course that would repeal the fees. But Republicans in the House of Delegates seemed to forget that the estimated $65 million in abusive driver fees was part of the transportation package cobbled together last year to come up with money for construction and maintenance of the state’s highway system.