And How Our Community Can Work To Change It — Communities across the US are experiencing a housing crisis unlike anything I’ve seen in my lifetime. In the Shenandoah Valley homelessness and housing instability are creeping up the social ladder. Rents continue to climb while incomes continue to stagnate. …

In 2014 the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Jail was overcrowded, and our local governments began the process of drawing up specifications for a new regional jail. Many local criminal justice reform advocates put forth various alternatives to incarceration, and expressed alarm at the apparent rush to build a new $60 million jail. …

The debate over allocation of local funds to build a new Harrisonburg High School to solve overcrowding, or to fix Fulks Run Elementary School may be new, but the fight over school funding in the Commonwealth has been ongoing since our schools were founded in 1869. Virginia schools were created…

The Trump administration is poised to roll back the federal requirement for employers to include birth control coverage in their health insurance plans. 55 million women have access to birth control without co-payments because of the contraceptive coverage mandate in the ACA. It’s no coincidence that the abortion rate in…

I’m running for Virginia’s House of Delegates in the 26th District, which includes Harrisonburg and parts of Rockingham County, where I grew up. My opponent, Del. Wilt, recently objected to how hard we’re working to contact local residents to let them know about registering to vote in Virginia’s election on…

Like most Virginians, I am sickened by the display of blatant racism and violence in Charlottesville this weekend. I condemn the messages of hate and racial division spewed by these Nazis. I mourn the deaths of the three who died today — one from an act of domestic terrorism. President…