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Column by Steve Landes In last week’s column, I mentioned how many bills we had to process before the midpoint of the General Assembly session, commonly referred to as “crossover,” on Feb. 12. In just one day, Monday, Feb. 11, the House considered more than 200 bills. In order to complete this task, we began…
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Story by Jim Bishop A campus pastor who is also an artist will speak on “stewards of creation” and discuss his work at an art exhibit opening at Eastern Mennonite University. Ted Lyddon Hatten, director of the Wesley Foundation at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, will give a chapel talk on Christians’ responsibility for caring…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The State Corporation Commission has spoken on the proposed Highland New Wind case. A state legislator would like the SCC to keep its nose out of these types of cases in the future. “What this has the effect of doing is eliminating their review of projects such as the one…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With the bang of the speaker’s gavel at noon last Wednesday, the 2008 session of the Virginia General Assembly began. It’s fitting that the bang of a gavel sounds a lot like the firing of a starter’s pistol in a track race. In Virginia, the legislative session…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How well do you think that you know yourself? For example, about your racial biases – of course, you don’t have any racial biases. You’re color-blind. Really? Take this test – you can be done in around 10 minutes, give or take – and get back to us.
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Op-Ed by Kim Sandum Just before Christmas, some of the people I work with sued the Virginia Department of Transportation and the Federal Highway Administration over plans to expand I-81. It needed to be done. The story of I-81 is a cautionary tale for the rest of Virginia about a state agency that too often…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The federal government is leaner and meaner – OK, so that’s me trying to be funny there, I admit it. But when it comes to funding for the national park system, times are lean and rather mean when it comes to items in the budget that are of an infrastructure…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] One oh eight to seventy. Not pretty. And that’s the way Virginia readied itself for the beginning of the ACC season. Not pretty. “Starting league play changes the complexion of everybody in this season – whether they’ve had a game in December or up until this point. Obviously next Sunday…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Football is an expensive sport to get into – from cleats to pads to helmets, and that’s just the start of it. “The NFL realizes that it’s really important for the health of football in this country that the youth of the United States have to have opportunities to play…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a TV weatherman, a trip to the local burger place can be a challenge not unlike the 10K races that Eric Pritchett runs when he’s not standing in front of a television screen telling us what Mother Nature has in store for us tomorrow. “What’s it going to…
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