The saga of Newport News Delegate Phil Hamilton has the blogosphere scratching its collective heads on what should be done with the General Assembly. The body, considered “the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World,” is a part-time affair, meeting in the winter months.
I have long advocated for a full-time legislature, most recently in [...]

I ran across an interesting article entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online.” As it turns out, the title is that of a book written by danah boyd, a social media researcher and this article was posted by boyd herself based on a talk she gave at the Personal Democracy Forum on June 30.
The overall [...]