The politics of payday lending

Chris Graham

The Creigh Deeds campaign says Terry McAuliffe has taken aim at “Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and Democratic leaders in the General Assembly” on payday lending “(i)nstead of targeting Republicans who have stood in the way of payday lending reform.” As with most political swipes, this one is, well, partly true.

In the News

Chris Graham

– State News: Swine flu on the web, posted Thursday, 4:30 p.m. – Politics: Price to kick off 24th House campaign, posted Thursday, 4:30 p.m. – Local News: Presidential Library opens new wedding exhibit, posted Thursday, 8:20 a.m. – State News: Update on swine flu, posted Thursday, 8:20 a.m.

‘I never really gave up’

Contributors

I could imagine L.D. Cox as the gregarious 19-year-old who helped deliver the first atomic bomb across the Pacific. “Don’t shoot!” he said in mock surrender as he made his way across the drill field at Fishburne Military School on a sunny late-March afternoon, passing a cannon that was going to be fired a little…

Three bowls of soup: Local restaurants using local ingredients affect communities in unforeseen ways

Contributors

Will Richey began to notice a difference in the Charlottesville Farmers Market in the late ’90s. Besides the usual Charlottesville crowd seeking coffee and muffins or a week’s worth of groceries, he started running into Charlottesville’s best chefs. “I noticed the chefs – and of course sous chefs and other people connected with the city’s…

Spring Reading List

Contributors

Although the global economic crisis has had many tragic consequences for people all over the world, it is also true that many individuals, families and communities have taken this challenging time as an opportunity to reflect on their current lifestyle choices and to begin making real changes in their lives.

David Cox | Fighting fires and unemployment

David Cox

Imagine this: Fire breaks out in your next-door neighbor’s house. It endangers yours. Fortunately our faithful fire departments respond quickly. Unfortunately—this would never happen here, but remember, we’re imagining—one of the squads needs to use your hose. The squad has the water; all they need, urgently, is your hose.

A Big Mac, a Whopper, a BLT …

Chris Graham

We’re a couple of hours away from our Big Mac Attack, and we have some good news to mark the occasion. The Waynesboro School Board didn’t bow to the pressure being applied by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente and his friends in the local media to cut its 2009-2010 budget $600,000 to accommodate Lucente’s push to…

Half-Truths and No-Truths

Contributors

You can’t just make something up out of the total thin air like, oh, I don’t know, saying that Gallup has Barack Obama as the second-least popular president at the 100-day mark of the last 40 years, and get away with it, can you? You can if you live in Fringeland, where down is up,…