Letters to the editor

Dear Editor:  Delegate Kannan Srinivasan (HD-26, Brambleton to South Riding area) voted against a bill (HB 480) that would have protected parental rights in medical decisions regarding their children. Specifically, Srinivasan voted against the right of a parent to provide consent before a doctor withdraws life-sustaining treatment or places a Do Not Resuscitate order in…

Dear Editor: February 17 is the 224 th  anniversary of Virginia native Thomas Jefferson’s election to the Presidency. From his time in the Virginia legislature to his time as President, he consistently defended the Press as an institution, saying in a 1876 letter to fellow Virginian James Currie, “Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press…

Dear Editor: Another commonsense bill was killed by democrats in our state Senate. SB 81 would have reduced our 45 days of early voting (first put into VA law in 2020 due to COVID) down to three weeks.  Our Senators Perry and Subramanyam sit on the Privileges and Elections subcommittee. Both of them, along with all the…

Dear Editor: I am writing regarding an email written by Sherita Hill Golden, PhD. Chief Diversity Officer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Hill is the Director of the Diversity Equity and Inclusion office at Johns Hopkins. The email was sent to all Johns Hopkins faculty and was also shared online. In the email Dr. Hill…

Dear Editor: I was surprised to see an item on the January 10th Board of Supervisors meeting entitled “Belmont Innovation Center.” Sounds innocuous enough, right? Well, the devil is in the details. It turns out that the “Belmont Innovation Center” is the largest data center ever proposed in this country. And it is proposed right here in…