Dr. Walter C. Farrell, Jr., PhD, M.S.P.H.

These issues are being carefully woven together to stoke fear, anger, and unity among Virginia’s voters.

That these political wounds are being self-inflicted by Democrats is extremely puzzling and may be written up as a political case study as to what not to do in future political campaigns.

They already trailed behind their working- and middle-class counterparts, but there have been major declines in reading and math during the past 18 months.

Despite the good things proposed in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill--vision and dental care, universal preschool, two years of free community college, etc.,--the Party has not developed a strong message to sell it!

with their slim majorities in the House and Senate, and faced with internal and external distractions in their effort to pass legislation, Democrats seem to be unaware as to how they are being ‘played.’

Teachers are under increasing stress as Republican-aligned local parent and anti-pandemic groups are storming school board meetings demanding the abandonment or non-implementation of mitigation protocols—masking and social distancing. Democrats are largely paying lip service to these stark challenges and are off in an alternate political reality.

As the nation continues its rapid trek toward a demographic status where Whites are no longer the racial majority group, Republicans are pulling out all stops to stay in power.

we have to be vigilant in ensuring that our new public school student populations have the broad-based economic support that is needed for them to succeed and excel. They are under siege with regard to their need for educational resources even as their numbers continue to surge.