Environmentalists and other supporters are calling the Senate’s failure last week to advance global warming legislation a missed opportunity. In that it would have been the beginning on the part of the United States to tackle the worldwide problem, they are right.

The Greater Lynchburg Transit Company has had its share of budget lumps in the past several years. Revenue shortfalls and budget cuts at the hand of the city have meant the elimination of some routes. Fewer buses are available on other routes.

There’s a school of thought out there that lays out the characteristics of a local economy that’s on perpetually strong ground.

It’s no secret that individuals or individual groups with common interests can have more clout and attract more attention if they put their efforts together under one organization.

It’s hard to believe that just six years ago, much of the East Coast and southeastern parts of the United States were caught in the grips of one of the worst droughts on record.

Just two weeks from today, the 140 members of the General Assembly will hit the highways, heading back to the state Capitol in Richmond to tackle the commonwealth’s transportation crisis.

The best use of a portion of the old Carver-Price School in Appomattox was always as a museum detailing the black history of the county. It just took a while to get there.

The new state-of-the-art regional cancer center will open later this month, giving Central Virginia residents one more reason to be thankful for living here. It is Centra Health’s Alan B. Pearson Regional Medical Center.

Nothing in this world is free; there’s a cost to someone somewhere along the supply chain and someone, ultimately, has to pay.

With the cost of gasoline reaching levels that few thought possible, the demand for mass transit is growing along with those frightful prices. Expanded passenger rail service for the region could be part of the new mass transit system if the state can find the money.

To say that Jim Gilmore and the state Republican Party face a tough fight to retain John Warner’s U.S. Senate would be to utter the understatement of the year.

There has to be something in the water in Central Virginia. That’s the only possible explanation we can come up with for the outbreak of that dreaded disease, “closed-governmentitis,” that’s spreading throughout the region.