Adam Schaeffer and Chaim Katz | The best gift for kids is a better education
Another Christmas has come and gone, and the New Year is here with the resulting resolutions. Many of us use this time of year to reflect on the spirit of giving, especially in the midst of rising unemployment and uncertainty. Some people had less to give or perhaps nothing at all, or even relied on the giving of others, but many people continued with their charity despite their own increasing hardships. Read more
Elizabeth Geris | Stop the ‘Sex and the City’ train, I want my Snuggie
Call me silly, but I have a beef with the makers of the sequel to the first “Sex and the City” film. I mean, wait. There’s another one? I didn’t see the first release. Oh, well. This isn’t a film review, so humor me.
A little personal history first: I tuned into this mystifyingly popular TV show a few years ago, and I’ll admit it: I initially fell for it. The older episodes I was introduced to acquainted me most with the main character Carrie, who gave self-effacing asides to the camera to reveal a sense of humor about her single life – the life of the neurotic, emotionally immature woman who lacks financial savvy, serial-dates incompatible men, and is at once ambivalent and yet ultimately lazy about changing her flaws, and who is also in on the joke that is her current situation, while holding on to an optimism that her willing spirit alone will somehow bring everything together for the better. Read more
Rich Cranwell | Goodlatte puts politics above people
I am disappointed that Rep. Bob Goodlatte and the other Republican members of the Virginia congressional delegation chose to boycott the congressional delegation meeting with Gov. Tim Kaine Feb. 9.
This annual meeting is held to give our congressional representatives an opportunity to work with state government officials to better serve all of us, and to give the people representing us a chance to work together for the sake of everyone in this Commonwealth. Read more
David Reynolds | A middle road
Let’s keep it simple. And positive. Here’s my thought. If the White House believes that a crisis is a terrible thing to waste, we should follow suit. And if we do, our kids will thank us. Here’s all we have to do: Allow the City of Lexington to operate a consolidated middle school at the soon to be renovated Lylburn Downing Middle School site, assimilating students from the county’s Maury River Middle School 1.4 miles away. Read more
Sanford D. Horn | A Burr-is in the Dems’ side
When The Washington Post and the Chicago Tribune call for a Democrat’s resignation, one can just picture the snow falling in hell. The gift that keeps on giving – Roland Burris and Illinois politics are embroiled in the continuing saga of “can anyone tell the truth in Honest Abe’s Land of Lincoln?” Read more
David Cox | Richmond is for lovers?
You could almost feel the love. It was Valentine’s Day at the General Assembly Building in Richmond: Never let it be said that our legislature is invariably behind the times, for it was celebrating two days ahead of everyone else. Doors were decorated. Candy sat on tables outside nearly every office. Sweetness, if not light, abounded. Read more
Katherine Smith | Predatory dangers
On Feb. 5, a group of students and concerned citizens protested outside of the CarMax Lending Center on South Main Street in Harrisonburg in the hopes of raising awareness about the abuses of predatory lending. Read more
Friday, Feb. 20-Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009
- Economy: Gas prices trending back downward, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: Nevada knocks off VCU in BracketBusters, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: JMU baseball drops pair in Myrtle Beach, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: JMU softball improves to 9-1, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: W&L falls to EMU in men’s basketball, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: BC rallies to knock off W&L in women’s hoops, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: UVa. women’s lax dominates Loyola, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Sports: JMU women’s lax upends Virginia Tech, Sunday, 12:40 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: Moran proposes Virginia Homeowners’ Bill of Rights, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: Shannon earns support for AG candidacy, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: Speaker urges GA action on budget, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Local News: EMU professor writes book on change in church congregations, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Sports: Prince returns to UVa. football staff, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Sports: JMU baseball drops season opener, Friday, 4:50 p.m.
- Virginia Politics: McDonnell steps down as AG, Friday, 11:25 a.m.
- Virginia Politics: Bowerbank talks about the LG race, Friday, 7:50 a.m.
- Sports: JMU women fall to UNC-Wilmington, Friday, 7:50 a.m.
- Sports: VCU women hold on to beat Georgia State, Friday, 7:50 a.m.
- Sports: W&L baseball improves to 2-0, Friday, 7:50 a.m.
- Local News: Weekend Calendar of Events, Friday, 7:50 a.m.
Inside the Artisan Center gallery closing
Is the closing of the Artisans Center of Virginia retail gallery economics? Or is it pure power politics? I can see both playing roles here.
“The question was quite bluntly asked, and I don’t mind them asking it, about the position of council wanting to keep them viable and wanting to be supportive and helping them strategize and reorganize. The mayor, with all due respect, told the group that he’s about minimal government, and that he could not speak for Mr. Allen or Mr. Lucente, but made it clear, and this was the consensus around the table, that this was going nowhere,” said Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith, describing a hastily called meeting at City Hall Wednesday to discuss the pending closing of the Artisans Center retail gallery, which was approved in a vote of the nonprofit’s board of directors the night before. Read more
News Virginian latest to furlough employees
The tough times being faced in the news-media industry are now hitting home to Waynesboro.
The News Virginian announced in today’s edition that it will be implementing a series of unpaid furloughs for employees in line with a fulough program being implemented by its corporate parent, the Richmond-based Media General. Read more
‘Radio Hour’ returns to Waynesboro Friday night
The Blues Lady, Lorie Strother, and The Lady with the Latest, Olivia Rae Frock, will be headlining this month’s “River City Radio Hour” in Waynesboro.
The “Radio Hour,” a production of the Wayne Theatre Alliance, the Waynesboro Cultural Commission and Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc., will also feature the second episode in the running series The Return of the Maltese Falcon by Peter Coy. Read more
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Haresh Daswani | Personal India experience
Posted on February 22, 2009 · 1 Comment
It might sound strange when I will tell you that this is literal. But here goes.
Our nose has sensors that can detect up to 5,000 unique scent qualities. The diverse myriad combinations that this brings forth is what is thus constructed as a unique scent. Smell does not need to go through normal brain processing. It goes straight to the memory center and activates the first instance you have experienced such situation, it makes you relive your first time, and makes you react accordingly. India is a diverse culture of scents. Read more
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