Haresh Daswani: The true essence of male chivalry
Column by Haresh Daswani
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One of the saddest points in male chivalry is the dying ethics and ettiquette of a man’s behavior in the presence of women. The biggest conflict noticed is the excuse men have that women wanted to be treated as equals, and therefore many acts would be deemed outdated.
The very point of male chivalry was to never look at a woman as a weaker gender, as what others depicted male chivalry to be, but in fact, a better appreciation of women. The very core feature is for us to remember and appreciate women’s roles in our society. They go beyond career as they do take on activities with the community, and even beyond is their active role in child rearing. Read more
Tom Perriello: The facts on health-care reform
Column by Tom Perriello
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One of the top concerns of working families and small businesses in the Fifth District is the skyrocketing cost of health care and the lack of access to quality, affordable care. Over the past 15 months, I have heard countless stories from Virginians about their struggles with the current health care system. Small business owners tell me they have to choose between insuring their workers or laying people off. Self-employed workers talk about their premiums have jumped 20% in just one year. Individuals with pre-existing conditions like diabetes say they can’t get health coverage. And the uninsured tell me stories—sometimes heart-breaking—about a disease that went unchecked or a trip to the emergency room after it was too late, all because they did not have health insurance. Read more
Bob Marshall: Virginia to challenge Obama health mandates
Column by Bob Marshall
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For the first time in American history individuals and businesses will be forced by the federal government to purchase private health insurance.
Obamacare fundamentally alters our form of government and turns citizens whose rights come from our Creator, into serfs with obligations to lawless Washington predators. Read more
Christopher G. Miller: Choosing clean water in Virginia
Column by Christopher G. Miller
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Over the past 50 years, the cities, towns, and suburban neighborhoods of Virginia have grown dramatically, adding millions of new people, new shopping malls, and the roads and parking lots that go with them. The storm sewers and other facilities we have were not built to deal with the levels of run off or the types of pollutants that we worry about today. Read more
Richmond or bust
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It’s a long time coming. Seventy-eight years, to be exact.
Brig. Gen. Andrew Lewis (1720-1781), a Virginian of French & Indian and Revolutionary War fame, is having a bronze bust installed in his honor on Monday in the Old Hall of the House of Delegates at the Virginia State Capitol. Read more
Waynesboro City Council to meet tonight
Edited by Chris Graham
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Waynesboro City Council will meet tonight at 7 p.m. at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St., Waynesboro, for a regularly-scheduled business meeting. Read more
Augusta County Board of Supervisors to meet today
Edited by Chris Graham
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The Augusta County Board of Supervisors will meet today at 1:30 p.m. at the Augusta County Government Center, 18 Government Center Lane, Verona, for its monthly staff briefing. Read more
Policies hold back those leading the fight against homelessness
Special Report by Chris Graham
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You hear the word homeless, and immediately what comes to mind is a person who has lost a job, a family without a home, kids suddenly tossed out into the night.
That situation is the exception, not the rule, according to local homeless advocates, who by and large work people who are homeless locally through mental-health and substance-abuse issues.
“You’re peeling back layers when they come to us,” said Wendy Shiflett at the Valley Mission in Staunton, where an estimated two-thirds of the homeless population any given week is made up of people with mental-health or substance-abuse issues – usually a combination of several of both.
It makes sense when Shiflett explains what could be a typical homeless case. You have someone with what started out as a mental-health issue going to their family and friends for help. Eventually their family and friends will grow weary of giving help or frustrated because they can’t. Which means now they’ve lost their support system. Read more
No pressure: We’ve only been waiting 19 months
Column by Chris Graham
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Nineteen months. That’s a long time at the height of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression to be doing economic development on the fly.
Waynesboro finally took a step in the direction of again becoming a player in the development arena with the announcement last week that it was hiring Greg Hitchin away from the Syracuse, N.Y., area to fill its vacant economic-development director job.
No pressure, Greg. We just expect you to be our economic savior, and to do it quick. Read more
Harris, Freeman: It’s their election to lose
Column by Chris Graham
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All I wanted to be able to do, I told myself throughout my 2008 campaign for Waynesboro City Council, was to think at 7 p.m. on Election Night that I’d done everything I could do to put myself in a position to be able to win.
Win or lose, I said to myself, many times, I didn’t want to leave anything on the table.
I lost, of course, and pretty miserably at that, and the postmortems aren’t yet over, almost two years later. It’s rare that I go more than a day or two without thinking about something that I could have done better or just differently.
It’s probably my personality. I haven’t coached youth basketball in eight years, and I still find myself on long drives scheming offensive systems, for that inevitable day when I get back into coaching. Read more
The AFP Show: Monday, March 22
Hosted by Chris Graham
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This week’s AFP Show features:
- An interview with Staunton City Council candidate Carl Tate (6:51)
- An interview with Staunton Music Guild president Karen Lawrence (9:55)
- A discussion of homelessness in Harrisonburg and Rockingham County with Tom Benevento of the New Community Project.
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Jim Bishop: ScrappleFest gang lives low on the hog
Posted on March 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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PERKASIE, PA – It was one of those much anticipated magical moments that don’t happen often enough, so when it does, you try to savor every minute.
Saturday, March 6, 10 Bishop first cousins assembled at Tom Bishop’s comfortable suburban Perkasie, home for the premier event of the spring social season, ScrappleFest V. Read more
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