Dwayne Yancey

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

President Donald Trump wants to revoke the tax-exempt status for Harvard University. A few years ago, future Vice President JD Vance gave a speech entitled “The Universities Are the Enemy.”You’d think that Republicans don’t have a lot of faith in the nation’s system of higher education. Nationally speaking, you’d be right.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Want more on Virginia’s population trends? We’ve collected all our demographic coverage in one place. For all the time I’ve lived in the Roanoke Valley, which is now more than four decades, I’ve heard a constant lament: We lose people to Charlotte and Atlanta. Our young adults leave for there. Our mid-career adults leave for there. From time to time, our major employers have left for there.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Australia had a meaty election over the weekend — both politically and gastronomically. Politically speaking, Australians were the Southern Hemisphere’s version of Canadians in their recent election. A left-of-center party that had been trailing in the polls got a big boost out of President Donald Trump imposing tariffs and wound up winning. In both cases, the right-of-center leader who had tried to model himself after Trump not only lost but also lost his seat in parliament.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Emporia took a hard blow last week when the Georgia-Pacific plywood mill announced it’s closing, leaving 550 people out of work. That follows another hard blow last year, when the Boar’s Head Provision Co. meat plant in nearby Jarratt in Greensville County closed. No community wants to lose a major employer; between them, Emporia and Greensville County have now lost two in less than a year’s time.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Republican voters in Danville are showing more interest in the House of Delegates primary in their area than voters in any of the other eight Republican primaries in the state. That’s based on the numbers from the first day totals on Friday. While just one day, those first-day totals are often a good indicator of overall interest in a race. There are 17 primaries — eight Republican, nine Democratic — to settle House of Delegates nominations this year.