Editorial: Let’s have a party (6/25/2025) - Significant events deserve our best efforts at recognition. One year from now, the nation will observe the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence: our semiquincentennial. Most likely the majority… …
Letter: Many hands make museum a success (6/25/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Mathews Museum is becoming a driving force in bringing more visitors to our town, and we have the community to thank. Volunteers, individual donations, corporate support, and… …
Letter: HB 1 and Medicare (6/25/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Congressman Wittman’s press office release of May 22 listed so many things, it’s hard to know where to start. Perhaps he was too busy to read the cost… …
Letter: The right move (6/25/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Iran has attacked U.S. forces 200 times since 2020 and has been at war with the U.S. for 46 years. Its regime has murdered thousands of American citizens.… …
Letter: Why is it so hot? (6/25/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: If you ask The Weather Channel, they will tearfully tell that it’s our fault. Then tearfully, again, complain about our dirty car and airplane exhausts and cow flatulence.… …
Editorial: The Gloucester Resolves: Finding common cause (6/18/2025) - Americans have been fussing about taxation without representation since the tea tariff of 1774, actually, a bit earlier, when the Towns-hend Acts placed import duties on items that colonists had… …
Letter: Tough spot for Iran (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Recent events have put the ruling Mullahs of Iran in a no-win situation. The rulers of Iran have a seething hatred of the Jews and want them all… …
Letter: Citizens, speak up (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The past weekend was one with many contrasts. In Washington, there was a parade to celebrate the 250th birthday of the U.S. Army, at the end of a… …
Letter: Believe Wittman? (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I think Republicans don’t read my stuff, but y’all need to see this. On May 20th, Rob Wittman emailed me a letter vowing he would not support any… …
Letter: Great turnout for protest (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I was proud to see the turnout for the recent “No Kings Day” protest here in Mathews. Nearly 200 people showed up to peacefully express their views, a… …
Letter: Two parties (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: We have two choices and two parties: Republicans: Law and Order, and Democratic Party, No leader, No policies, and No agenda to address the crisis and division in… …
Letter: Disheartening display (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: On Saturday—Flag Day—I witnessed a group putting on a disheartening display of hatred and disrespect; an anti-American message based on lies. This was no spontaneous grassroots gathering, but… …
Letter: Peaceful assembly (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I am writing in complete support of the No Kings demonstration that took place on Saturday, June 14, at Port Fun in Mathews. The Constitution of the United… …
Letter: Costly repairs (6/18/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I drive an older car. It runs well, gets good mileage, and is safe for me to drive. I tried a different repair shop than I usually use;… …
Editorial: Our volunteers (6/11/2025) - Volunteers contribute uncounted millions of hours and dollars to help this area, to enrich lives of humans and animals, and to protect and enhance our natural surroundings. You see them… …
Editorial: Fabulous (6/11/2025) - Congratulations to state champions Donovan Forrest and Gavin Dustin from the Mathews High School track team. We are proud of your achievements! Congratulations as well to the many teams from… …
Editorial: Sanctuary county? (6/11/2025) - Is Gloucester really a sanctuary county? According to a list of jurisdictions published a couple weeks ago on the U.S. Department of Homeland Security website, and then (without explanation) abruptly… …
Who’s going to the carnival? (6/11/2025) - We asked our Facebook followers this week how many are planning to attend the inaugural Gloucester Summer Kick-Off Carnival, which begins Friday. A total of 39.1 percent of respondents said… …Letter: Wrong use of taxpayer money (6/11/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Building a public recreation area bordered on three sides with homes at the end of a narrow residential road is wrong. I am speaking of the proposed developed… …
Letter: Are we keeping it? (6/11/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Last Saturday at the Symphony under the Stars concert in Gloucester, as we stood for the Star-Spangled Banner, I wondered how long we will be able to call… …
Letter: Freedom of speech (6/11/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: A story in the June 7 Virginian-Pilot told of Yunseo Chung, a student at Columbia University, valedictorian at Grafton High School in 2022, a permanent resident of the… …
Letter: The Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) pain (6/11/2025) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: If you, a relative, friend, neighbor or someone in a nursing home are on Medicaid or the SNAP program, the passage of the BBB bill, supported by our… …
Editorial: School’s out! (6/4/2025) - Young people leaving school for the year race from their classrooms to waiting cars and buses, in a burst of joy for the summer weeks ahead. And it gets better.… …
Editorial: History will be made (6/4/2025) - History will be made in Virginia on Jan. 17, 2026. That’s the day Virginia’s 75th governor will be sworn in. Regardless of the outcome of this year’s election, Virginia voters… …
Summer plans (6/4/2025) - Summer is right around the corner, so we decided to ask our Facebook followers what they are planning for the warm weather months. Nearly half of respondents said they were… …