by Laurence Hammack | Sep 29, 2013 | Health care
As a steady rain sets in on Roanoke’s Pride in the Park festival, Robin Davis hunkers under a tent and prepares for the work ahead. Davis takes brochures about health insurance and the Affordable Care Act from a cardboard box. She places them in giveaway...
by Laurence Hammack | Jun 16, 2013 | Health care
By Laurence Hammack and David Ress Lois Casto takes home $1,260 a month from her job serving students at a Virginia Tech dining hall, hardly enough to feed her family of six. Unable to afford health insurance, she gets most of her care from a free clinic. But in some...
by Laurence Hammack | Sep 9, 2012 | Health care
SALTVILLE — Shootings and stabbings are rare in this town of 2,000. When sirens occasionally disturb the peace, it’s likely the local rescue squad responding to an automobile crash, or tending to one of the health problems of an aging population. So what...
by Laurence Hammack | May 6, 2012 | Religion
LYNCHBURG — Here on the training grounds for Christian lawyers, they’ve built an exact replica of the courtroom where the U.S. Supreme Court presides. The mahogany bench, the nine high-backed chairs that sit behind it and the red curtain backdrop provide...
by Laurence Hammack | Apr 25, 2012 | Environment
Wearing hip waders and arm-length rubber gloves, Drew Miller wades into the ripples of the Roanoke River, gripping a wooden-handled net. Miller, a biologist for the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, is soon knee deep in his work, testing the water for...