The Slant

November 3, 2011

The 99% @ City Hall

The footage for this short video piece was shot outside of Richmond, Virginia's City Hall on Nov. 2, 2011. At Mayor ...

November 1, 2011

Occupation: Waxing or Waning?

Whether the Occupy Wall Street movement will continue to grow, or will soon wither and be assimilated, remains to be ...

October 28, 2011

Through a partisan prism darkly

From its inception, what we’ve seen of the Occupy Wall Street phenomenon has been shaped in some part by our own ...

January 4, 2011

Get ahead of the curve

Who needs more fluffy articles about the author's view of the best or the worst of this or that from 2010? Get ahead of ...

April 8, 2010

Unvarnishing Virginia History

Having grown up in Richmond, I’ve been steeped in its dual sense of bitterness and pride over matters to do with, a ...

April 6, 2010

Awareness of the Camera: Uh-Oh!

Perhaps we will get to watch this scene unfold on live television: It will be a 20-year-old schizophrenic with his f ...

March 30, 2010

It Ain’t Over…

A new piece I penned for Richmond.com went up today, "Healthcare Brouhaha: It Ain't Over..." It's about Attorney General ...

February 2, 2010

ABC stores may soon be gone

At Richmond.com there's a new piece I wrote about the possibility that we'll soon see the last of ABC stores. The first ...

January 11, 2010

Blood Isn’t Just Red

The piece that follows was published by the Richmond Times-Dispatch on its May 1, 1999 OpEd Page. The point it makes abo ...

December 7, 2009

The Smoke-Free Future

A new OpEd piece I penned about the new statewide smoking ban in most restaurants is up at Richmond.com. Sometimes, the ...

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