Commentary

• Dave Barry: Why I miss the oil spill

  It was the kind of year that made a person look back fondly on the Gulf oil spill.

  01/01/2022 12:00 AM
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• Keep walking, add another stone.

  FightSMA, which has always depended on the generosity of Richmonders, moves to a new phase as Martha Slay steps down after leading the group for two decades as it battles a terrible childhood disease.

  01/01/2022 12:00 AM
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• Your 2 Cents

  Donate some blood this year if you are one of the people who can. Some people cannot because of health reasons, but most people can. It's a wonderful way to start the New Year!

  01/01/2022 12:00 AM
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• Radical greens threaten Virginia jobs

  Radical environmental activists have targeted Strasburg-based Mercury Paper Co. for shutdown. A campaign by Greenpeace is pressuring local businesses to boycott Mercury. If successful, the boycott would cripple the company and eliminate hundreds of jobs.

  01/01/2022 12:00 AM
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• Business leader made it work every day

  After 45 years at the newspaper, The Times-Dispatch's Scott Leath is retiring. He will be missed.

  01/01/2022 12:00 AM
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• Missing Jesus

  The first disaster struck soon after the lights dimmed for "Silent Night," the last hymn of the Christmas Eve service. Candlelight, wavering in hundreds of hands, cast a gentle glow across the unadorned white walls of the old Baptist Church Phillip had known his whole life.

  12/25/2011 12:00 AM
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• The real 'God particle' already exists

  Recently the world learned that scientists at the European research institute CERN have found evidence confirming they are very close to hunting down the elusive Higgs boson particle — a particle that is believed to be responsible for giving other particles their mass. And because scientists believe this previously unidentified particle may be one of the universe's most crucial building blocks, it has been nicknamed "the God particle."

  12/25/2011 12:00 AM
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• Silvestri: Our readers are our gift

  Thanks to novelist Charles Dickens, we package the past, present and future with Christmas.

  12/25/2011 12:00 AM
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• At the crossroads of Christianity and journalism

  Todd Culbertson, editor of the Editorial Pages, delivered the following at Christ Episcopal Church in Glen Allen.

  12/25/2011 12:00 AM
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• Your 2 Cents

  A recent news story said that the salaries of public administrators are modest. The first salary I saw under that headline was more than $300,000. The next day another news story said a VRS employee was making more than $700,000. Apparently you and I have a modestly different definition of modest.

  12/25/2011 12:00 AM
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