http://hamptonroads.com/taxonomy/term/108 Category: Editorials en-us Copyright 2008 PilotOnline.com / HamptonRoads.com. Thu, 15 May 2008 23:14:15 -0400 DOMINION VIRGINIA POWER has asked for an 18 percent rate hike, which would raise the average monthly residential electricity bill from $91 to $107. T ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/us-paying-price-energy-indecision Wed, 14 May 2008 20:44:48 -0400 THE HIATUS is over for red-light running scofflaws in Virginia Beach. And they can't claim they weren't warned. Beach police officials announced ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/redlight-runners-will-get-picture Wed, 14 May 2008 20:40:24 -0400 THE VALUE of Gov. Tim Kaine's new transportation plan lies less in its particulars than in its author's willingness to find a consensus among lawmake ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/kaine-makes-it-hard-say-no-roads Tue, 13 May 2008 20:53:39 -0400 YOU'VE GOT no talent, no friends and no personality. Let's face it: You need a new shampoo. We laugh at those ridiculous commercials, even as we re ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/slick-tv-commercials-are-poor-prescription Tue, 13 May 2008 20:49:05 -0400 Whether Cyclone Nargis eventually claims 32,000 or 320,000 Burmese may never be known. Either represents a disaster of unimaginable scope, all the wo ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/atrocity-neglect-burma Mon, 12 May 2008 20:23:29 -0400 VIRGINIA lawmakers really don't need more evidence that banning smoking in restaurants is in the best interests of public health. What they need is t ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/one-more-reason-smokefree-dining Mon, 12 May 2008 20:22:00 -0400 Whether Chesapeake Bay watermen win a federal disaster declaration, and the money that might flow from it, Maryland and Virginia still have an obliga ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/idled-watermen-deserve-relief Mon, 12 May 2008 20:15:26 -0400 A new state law that takes effect this summer will allow the Virginia Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to revoke or suspend liquor licenses o ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/new-antigang-law-short-real-answers Sun, 11 May 2008 19:34:24 -0400 Residents scream a lot about high taxes, but they scream louder when they believe they're going to lose some of the services they've come to expect, ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/false-alarms-beach-budget Sun, 11 May 2008 19:42:27 -0400 IT SEEMS wrong, on its face, that a school division might help raise athletes' academic achievement by lowering standards. But there is a serious cas ... http://hamptonroads.com/2008/05/defensible-detour-higher-grades Sat, 10 May 2008 18:44:34 -0400