Two candidates are running in the November election for a four-year term to be Chesapeake’s fourth elected sheriff, but only ...

Sheriff Joseph “Joe” Baron was appointed to the role in 2017 after the previous sheriff abruptly resigned. He was elected to the job in a special election later that year, and was re-elected in 2021.

Characteristically thoughtful and eloquent words from the N.Y. Times columnist. It begins: “It’s hard to grasp the magnitude of the emerging threat to free speech in the United States.” It ends by ...