Let’s hope another domino in Norfolk’s retail landscape is not on the verge of falling.

So many of us are parked in front of our television sets these days, more out of necessity than desire.

It’s always chancy to write about somebody like Ahmaud Arbery.

His foray into the 2020 election recently was pure Barack Obama — pointedly partisan, sometimes entertaining and displaying an amazing lack of self-awareness.

Whether it be dining at restaurants, getting your hair done, shopping for groceries or working out, customers are urged to wear masks not only to protect themselves but especially others in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has beamed a spotlight on Iran’s barbaric practice of hostage diplomacy. In this dirty game, U.S. and Australian citizens along with dual Iranian European nationals are jailed in Tehran on trumped-up charges in hope of bargaining for some political gain.

It was such a shocking statement that some found it hard to believe a U.S. senator would say such a thing.

As a partisan debate rages over whether and how to reopen the country, America is drifting, with no coherent strategy from the White House. States are opening up helter-skelter. President Donald Trump contradicts his experts and rages at perceived enemies, leaving ordinary citizens confused …

In the pantheon of great lines suitable for induction into Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations is Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 2010 comment about Obamacare: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.”

Every few years I write a column about the United States Postal Service. In 2009 I just about wrote it off. That year the Postal Service faced a $7 billion revenue shortfall, and 700 post offices were slated for closure.

COVID-19 arrived, it started killing us, we had an American shutdown unprecedented in history. And as we maybe, just maybe, start edging our way out of it, we are almost certainly going to start altering a ton of things in our politics and society, maybe for the worse, maybe for the better.

Those who choose to run for and be elected to office — especially high-profile positions — know that they will be subjected to criticism.

When the 1956 Major League Baseball season began, the New York Yankees were in the unfamiliar position of not being the defending world champion. The previous October, the Brooklyn Dodgers dethroned the Yankees, and ended the Bronx Bombers’ unprecedented streak of five consecutive World Seri…

The disease experts and the panic-pushing media initially scared the pants off California’s 40 million people with their predictions about the death toll of the coronavirus pandemic.

Just about everyone speeds a little at some point. While a few mph over the limit isn’t right, it is more acceptable than going 35 mph or more over the limit.

He’s stuck in the basement of his home in Wilmington, Delaware, unable to engage in traditional campaigning, soak up the cheers of raucous rally crowds or impress audiences with knowledgeable and insightful policy pronouncements.

So far the national media have been quick to point out any shortcoming of President Donald Trump when it comes to the coronavirus and how quickly he reacted.

President Trump’s pathetic competitive obsession with his predecessor knows no bounds, and now that his deadly failures are being fully exposed, he actually thinks he can distract the public with yet another lie about the guy who easily tops him as a president and as a man.