Jim Bishop: Gonna take a sentimental journey

Jim Bishop

Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   There must be better places than a long slab of cement to celebrate one’s birthday. But the more I reflect on it, this setting is probably fitting, given the countless hours of my lifetime spent traveling this long stretch of crumbling pavement, the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

ACLU, AAUP, Dems criticize Cuccinelli on academic freedom

Chris Graham

Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s curious move to subpoena the University of Virginia regarding research done by climate scientist Michael Mann has drawn the ire of groups including the ACLU, the American Association of University Professors and the Virginia Democratic Party.

Environmental group praises delay on offshore drilling

Contributors

Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The U.S. Minerals Management Service announced today that it is postponing indefinitely the public-comment period and the public hearings that were scheduled in Virginia, Maryland and North Carolina in the coming weeks on the proposed sale for oil and gas drilling off Virginia’s shore.