It’s not your grandma’s jump rope.

For the last eight years, the University of Virginia Health System and other local health care providers have fielded a unique and dedicated group of health professionals to the Remote Area Medical Clinic in Wise. 

When is the Virginia legislature going to wake up

Wash the Volvo, put on your clean jeans and, for crying out loud, comb your hair. We’re having guests down from the nation’s capital.

New candidates abound, but Virgil Goode is a proven, great Virginia legislator. Vote for him and be glad.

Calling for FEMA reform while ignoring its reality does Daily Progress readers a disservice. 

Too many people are still ignoring the limit — even when warned to slow down by big, flashing electronic signs.

Change has to start somewhere.

I want to respond to the crime that has been happening in Charlottesville lately. 

I am writing about the parking situation at the Uni-versity of Virginia Medical Center. It is, in a word, disgraceful. 

The effort to bring back the American chestnut tree is a noble effort.

It’s a heartbreaking story.

Barack Obama served only two years in the U.S. Senate before he decided he was too important to be just a senator.

In reporting U.S. senatorial candidate Mark Warner’s stump speech in Palmyra on July 19, The Daily Progress described listeners as “125 adoring supporters.”

Many of us, born and brought up in America, nurtured in its schools taking part in its public celebrations, recite the Pledge of Allegiance as easily as our family names. Seldom do we consider the meaning of the words we so glibly repeat.

Criticized for housing disaster victims in formaldehyde-oozing trailers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has finally issued a draft report on how to fix the problem.

The planet on which Ellen Goodman lives sounds like a very dreary place. At least, that is the impression she gives in her column “Outsourcing labor ... to you!” (The Daily Progress, July 21).

A rural, agrarian-based cultural affair located in a community that’s becoming ever more urban and urbane must work hard to stay relevant.

Many of us who grew up in black communities in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s now constantly have to look over our shoulders when visiting. 

Hats off to Dillwyn. The Buckingham County town will not give up and accept the slow decline that is killing many small towns in Virginia. 

In recent months, the Piedmont Group of the Sierra Club has supported a reconsideration of dredging as a key mechanism for providing water storage capacity.

Wild, native cougars do exist and are surviving in the Old Dominion.

Try looking for a diamond in a garbage dump.

Although it receives a paltry $1-$1.5 million a year on average, the county’s Acqui-sition of Conservation Easements program has protected 5,560 acres since 2000. 

It is not an easy task to admit the futility of further treatment or repeated hospitalizations, but how many of us actually know we have other options?

‘Violating her trust’Like a boy with his dog, Andrew Neilson and Cookie the macaw have a bond that even a novice can notice. That bond was officially broken Friday when Cookie, and 30 other macaws temporarily housed at the Central Virginia Parrot Sanctuary, were inspected, documented and returned to their original owners.

The political cartoon published in The Daily Progress, July 19 reaches a new low in tastelessness.

Getting from a wish to a plan took plenty of effort. Going from a plan to a reality will require even more.

Land-use taxation and the ACE program are both touted by government as a way to preserve land. But for what purpose? 

West Main has been ignored long enough, as was the Corner before it, except for a series of studies that gather dust.