By now, the photographs of flak-jacketed police officers mingling in the yellow-cordoned parking lot of a strip-mall has become a familiar image in the daily newspapers. The leftover scenes from recent sniper attacks convey the desperation that comes with trying to comprehend madness. Faced with irrational, wanton brutality, it’s natural for people to seek cause-and-effect […]

Goodbye Bypass? Not just yet The Western Bypass may be dead, for now, but the unbuilt road still casts a long shadow over local transportation politics. Last spring, the nearly insolvent Virginia Depart-ment of Transportation cut the $180 million Route 29 Bypass from its six-year plan. Politicians from southern communities like Lynchburg and Danville continue […]