Discrimination: A competitiveness issue

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Report by Chris Graham [email protected]    Discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a moral evil. Got that. Interesting approach from gay, lesbian and transgender activists in Virginia – playing not the moral but the economic-competitiveness card. “We want you to be sure you tell your employees that you’re bringing the facts of life…

Jim Bishop: There’s no business like snow business

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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’” – Job 37:6 (NASB)   Snow, especially when it piles up, complicates our lives at the same time that it simplifies. We should welcome the interruptions that…

Just rearrange the deck chairs

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Why are our local school systems going to a job fair when they’re cutting jobs?   Story by Chris Graham [email protected]    It seems counterintuitive at first glance – to have a job fair to recruit potential new employees when the economic reality that you’re facing has you considering deep and painful cuts to staff….

Babysteps toward moving forward?

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]    It’s another report bound to collect dust on a forgotten bookshelf. That’s the cynic’s view of the latest and greatest Downtown Vision Report aiming at guiding whatever it is that Waynesboro is going to do to breathe life into its downtown. The people leading this particular Save Downtown effort…

The AFP Show: Health-care reform, Congress, emotional balance

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The AFP Show [email protected]    Items for The AFP Show for Thursday, Feb. 25, include: – Remarks from New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner on the ongoing health-care reform debate in Congress. – An interview with Isaac Wood from the University of Virginia Center for Politics to discuss a recent report from UVa. political-science professor…

Chris Graham: What do they have to hide?

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City Council debates transparency, and transparency isn’t faring too well right now Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s just say it like it is. Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people. I had no heartburn when the critics came out of the woodwork to criticize President Obama and…

Letters to the Editor

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– Guns, guns, guns! – Transparency     Guns, guns, guns! Letter from Linda Bartlett, Farnham     Have Virginia lawmakers gone crazy? Where were they when Virginia Tech students were slaughtered? Guns, guns, guns! I am so tired of being in a state that approves gun laws that were prevalent in the old west. We took…

Supreme corporations

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Column by Gene Nichol Submit guest columns: [email protected]    I am Texan by birth and Southern by acculturation. My family would attest I’m not beyond relating stories that mysteriously expand upon each re-telling. Given my trade, I read much of Madison, Hamilton, Story and Marshall. But, truth told, I prefer Mark Twain, Will Rogers, Woody…