The February New Dominion magazine is on the streets
The February edition of The New Dominion print magazine is out and about at locations across the Central Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville. Links to stories on our sister website TheNewDominion.com and our web extras are here. To find out where you can pick up your copy, click here. Read more
It’s blowin’ in the wind
It sounds, if not perfect, then pretty darn close. The answer, or at least an answer, to our energy troubles is blowin’ in the wind. But is it really as simple as putting up turbines and connecting them to the grid? Read more
Jim Bishop | Have we gotten out of sorts over sports?
Dave King knows he’s juggling a “hot potato,” but he feels his message is urgent.
Dave, the athletic director at Eastern Mennonite University, believes firmly in the value of sports, but is raising red flags over what he perceives as “the new American dream” of obsessing over sports and sports competition. Read more
David Cox | Thinking strategically
Our legislators are back at it in Richmond. A couple of weeks into a session that, everyone knows, has got to tackle some excruciating budgetary problems, they seem — as so often — to have produced more heat than light. I often wonder what they’re thinking. Especially when someone comes up with a good, if difficult, idea that might actually help us all out. Read more
Veronica Gutierrez | Predators, indeed
Recently, the term “predatory lending” has taken on a new meaning for me. I’ve always thought that predatory lenders were bad businesses. They plant themselves in low-income communities, offer fast cash, and then charge ridiculous interest rates, inevitably trapping people in a cycle of debt. Last Saturday, I joined in the Virginia Organizing Project’s door-to-door canvass effort in Fredericksburg to talk to folks about this issue. By the end of the afternoon, we had knocked on more than 2,000 doors in the area. But there was one door in particular that helped me to put a face on the issue. Read more
Sanford D. Horn | More Morantics, and Mrs. Morantics, Too
Usually we can count on the irascible Eighth District Democratic Congressman Jim Moran for entertainment whenever he decides to open his mouth, but this time the irascibility was a tag-team effort with his wife LuAnn Bennett who both caused a scene on Inauguration Day at the Capitol. Read more
Ivy Main | Protecting the vote
Posted January 30, 2009
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