Editorial: Kudos to MCPS (8/14/2024) - A new school year is almost here (buses start rolling in Gloucester and Mathews a week from Monday) and school divisions across Virginia are looking at what steps they need… …
Editorial: Roller-coaster season (8/14/2024) - It’s almost here. Five short weeks from tomorrow—Friday, Sept. 20—Virginians will start to cast their votes in the 2024 presidential election. It’s certainly been a roller-coaster season, especially in the… …
Letter: Board erred in rezoning (8/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: It is my opinion that the Gloucester Board of Supervisors made an error in judgement, at its August 6 meeting, in approving the requested zoning change to add… …
Letter: Information please (8/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Our Republic depends on informed voters. These days, as we are absolutely bombarded with information, we should try to seek direct statements over opinion/interpretation. Both the Democrat Party… …
Letter: Socialism on the ticket (8/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: The Democrats’ downward spiral to Socialism started with Woodrow Wilson, but really took off after Barack Obama. Everything about him was fake, but because he was such a… …
Letter: Why I’m voting ‘red’ (8/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: I have read many letters from area Democrats urging us to vote blue in the coming election. It seems the same people write repeatedly in their eagerness to… …
Letter: Above her pay grade (8/14/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: President Biden recently announced “fulfilling his duties as president,” i.e., to January 2025. Knowledgeable and basically honest voters in 2020 feared Biden leaving Kamala Harris in charge if… …
Back-to-school (8/14/2024) - Summer is ending and back-to-school season is upon us once again so we asked our Facebook followers what they enjoy most about back-to-school time. The most popular answer was getting… …Editorial: It’s not over yet (8/7/2024) - Recent events have proved the truth of an ancient saying that, “the wheels of justice turn slowly but grind exceedingly fine.” A news item last week jolted the memories of… …
Editorial: Your political letters (8/7/2024) - We surrender. Sort of. We have tried to keep letters on politics under control, but some of our correspondents are relentless. It’s apparent, even with three months to go until… …
Letter: Take action now on climate change (8/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: We did it! We’ve achieved a global monthly average surface temperature increase of over 2.7 degrees from pre-industrial levels for 12 months in a row! Back in 2015,… …
Letter: Enough (8/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: One hundred million 100 dollar bills will fit on one pallet. One billion 100 dollar bills equals ten pallets. One trillion 100 dollar bills is equal to a… …
Letter: An interested group (8/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Recently, the Mathews Museum hosted a visit from Mrs. Virginia Coyle’s class from the Mathews Bay School’s summer camp group. This group was of Pre-K age and had… …
Letter: A plan to destroy women’s rights (8/7/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal:This note—on the GOP’s appallingly violent and deludedly male-supremacist plan to destroy every woman’s sacred right to reproductive self-determination AND health care privacy—from the American Civil Liberties Union recently… …
Readers’ choice (8/7/2024) - This past week, we asked our Facebook followers how they like to read the Gazette-Journal. The results showed that most respondents like to read the print edition of the paper… …Rain, Rain Go Away (7/31/2024) - This past week, we asked our Facebook followers what they were doing to pass the time over a very rainy week. Nearly 70 percent of respondents signaled that they spent… …
Restore the VSU debate (7/31/2024) - In the everyday routine, national politics is the last thing we desire to write about. The players are so fixed, their statements so predictable: this camp, that camp, this insult,… …
Readers Write (7/31/2024) - Thank you,President Biden Editor, Gazette-Journal: This weary 90-year-old would like to say “Thank you, President Biden” for your goodness, sacrifice and showering a good deed on a weary world. Go… …
Poetic reflections: ‘Become Undone’ (7/31/2024) - O God, You are such a holy and wonderful God, and I will give You all the praise; You truly are an awesome and mighty God, and I will love,… …
Readers Special: More reading choices for your summer (7/31/2024) - This book is one of a few that every year becomes an instant New York Times Bestseller. Percival Everett, a distinguished professor of English at the University of Southern California… …
Letter: Thank you, President Biden (7/31/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This weary 90-year-old would like to say “Thank you, President Biden” for your goodness, sacrifice and showering a good deed on a weary world. Go Kamala, prosecute that… …
Editorial: Restore the VSU debate (7/31/2024) - In the everyday routine, national politics is the last thing we desire to write about. The players are so fixed, their statements so predictable: this camp, that camp, this insult,… …
Letter: No more voting! (7/31/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Donald Trump, in a campaign speech to members of the Christian nationalist group who are behind Project 2025, is quoted saying “Just vote this one time. After that,… …
Letter: Policies vs. noise (7/31/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: Getting the facts to compare the Presidential candidates’ policies is not easy. However, it’s easy to get lost in the noise of hyperbole. “He’s the worst.” “She’s worse… …
Letter: Oil change numbers incorrect (7/31/2024) - Editor, Gazette-Journal: This letter responds to the car maintenance article found in Section C of last week’s Gazette-Journal. I own a 16-year-old pickup and a 1-year-old SUV. Upon reading the… …