Blue Virginia is an independent online news and opinion organization covering Virginia politics from a pro-Democratic, pro-democracy, pro-science, pro-environment, etc. perspective. While we have very clear views on the issues, and our values are clearly Democratic/democratic, we always strive for accuracy and fairness. Having said that, we do reserve the right to endorse candidates in Democratic primaries and general elections, and have done so many times in the past.
Established in 2009, Blue Virginia is the successor website to Raising Kaine/RK, which existed from 2005 to 2008, and whose archives can be viewed here. The main reason for the shift from Raising Kaine/RK to Blue Virginia is that the focus changed from helping to elect Tim Kaine as governor of Virginia in 2005, to a broader focus on turning Virginia “blue,” implementing progressive and pro-environment/pro-clean-energy policies, etc.
Blue Virginia accepts donations and paid advertising, although those do not impact editorial content on the website. Blue Virginia is mainly run by its editor, Lowell Feld, with articles by others, including several contributors (Michelle Moore, William Moore, Joyce McClure, Joanne O’Connor, Karen Kinard, Lisa Russell-Mina, etc.) from Bridge2Blue for instance. Other contributors include Ken Sandler, Cindy Seiden, and other guests.
Blue Virginia accepts submissions for guest commentary – and encourages it from a variety of perspectives/communities, as long as they stay within our guidelines of being fact-based, reasoned, pro-Democratic and pro-democracy ; just email your submission to lowell@raisingkaine.com for consideration. Commentary from elected officials or candidates will be considered as well, if we find the commentary to be newsworthy, relevant to readers, value-added, factual, etc. Also, of course we will not accept submissions which contain any form of hate speech, bigotry, intentional falsehoods, attacks on private individuals, or anything that goes against our core mission of helping to elect Democrats and protect our democracy against authoritarian forces arrayed against it. Submissions do not need to be a particular length; more important is that the piece is compelling, relevant, timely, informative and readable. As for cross-posts from other publications, we can do that only with the permission of the author and preferably the other publication. In all submissions, we prefer that people use actual names and provide some basic information about the person’s affiliation, background, etc. If an individual needs to remain anonymous for safety, work-related or other reasons, please let us know and we’ll consider that. Finally, we reserve the right to edit submissions for factual correctness, clarity, etc. If errors are found in an article after publication, we will correct those to the extent possible, and note the corrections, as we strive for accuracy.
Again, as noted above, please contact Editor-in-Chief Lowell Feld with submissions: lowell@raisingkaine.com
P.S. To see the Raising Kaine archive, please click here.
P.P.S. You can contact us via our Contact Us page.
