A link to an article that ran this week in The Washington Post came over my email and I couldn’t bear to click. It was titled, “He said he was going to watch cartoons. Instead, he opened his dad’s gun safe.”

Ever hop on a flight or get invited to a party and find yourself rubbing shoulders with a famous person in the news? Yeah, me neither.

Someone remind me a year from now to go back and check whether Del. Tommy Wright’s latest column about how Democrats have trashed Virginia’s criminal justice system proves to be overwrought nonsense or is borne out by future events.

Don’t look now, but the news on multiple fronts is only getting better.

Ever soft soften but never afraid to speak his mind, the late W.P. Hudgins Sr. of Clarksville exerted a powerful influence as Mecklenburg’s first Black county supervisor that continues to be felt today.