Dwayne Yancey

5 days ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Detroit is a real place but also a mythical one. It’s a city that lives in the American imagination as a symbol of the nation’s manufacturing prowess. The name “Detroit” serves as a kind of cultural shorthand — so when President Donald Trump, speaking recently about American automakers making cars in Canada, said, “I’d rather make them in Detroit,” he might have been speaking literally or he might have been speaking metaphorically.

6 days ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Virginia House Republicans have made an unexpected leadership change. House Minority Leader Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah County, and Del. Terry Kilgore, R-Scott County has been elected to replaced him. Generally, parties elect their legislative leaders after the election so the timing of this switch is a surprise.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

Overview: Democrats have six candidates for lieutenant governor and two for attorney general. There doesn't seem much philosophical difference between them, so how will voters decide who to pick? In 1977, Virginia Democrats went into the voting booth of a party primary and came out with a statewide ticket that didn’t make any sense.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

In their only debate in the 1980 presidential campaign, Ronald Reagan asked a single, devastating question that sank President Jimmy Carter’s already flagging reelection campaign: “Are you better off today than you were four years ago?”The answer, given the economy of the times, was clearly “no,” and voters resoundingly went with someone who they felt could change things.

1 week ago | cardinalnews.org | Dwayne Yancey

In the late 1970s, when Roanoke was starting to salvage its downtown, the city hoped to get a big federal grant for a new bus station but wondered how it could get Washington’s attention. That’s when Brian Wishneff, the city official in charge of landing the grant, discovered something propitious: One of President Jimmy Carter’s Cabinet secretaries was coming to Roanoke for a political trip. Unfortunately, it was the wrong Cabinet secretary. The Commerce Secretary was set to come to Roanoke.