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Story by Jim Bishop An Eastern Mennonite University alumnus who moved from the world of finance to “laying up” spiritual treasures in heaven spent several days at EMU as a visiting pastor and as a resource for Martin Luther King Day observances. Leonard Dow, a 1987 graduate and former banker in Souderton, Pa., joined the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte is trying to see the positive regarding recent economic news. “This is the kind of news we need to hear with what is going on in the economy right now,” Goodlatte said while being briefed on recent successes at Clark Manufacturing facility in Waynesboro this morning,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If Virginia is going to get rid of the abusive-driver fees that caused so much rancor last summer and last fall, and Emmett Hanger is on board with the idea, and actually was before the fees were passed and signed into law last year, Hanger believes that it would only…
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My mother-in-law was telling a story about how tough it was for her to deal with the death of her daughter, my wife Crystal’s twin sister, Christina, 15 years ago to suicide. “I went back to work, and I was getting back to normal, and one morning I just lost it there at the office….
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] We saw a side of Dave Leitao Wednesday night that I hope I personally never see again. “Mm-hmmm” was all the UVa. basketball coach could muster to the last of the five questions – that’s right, five – that he took at his postgame press…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a “difficult decision,” but in the end, Tom Reynolds knew what he had to do. “It’s an easy decision to make, but at the same time it’s a difficult decision to make,” said Reynolds, the mayor of Waynesboro for the last four years and a member of Waynesboro…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He was on the good end of a 12-hour shift. “It’s 2:30. Just a few more hours, and then I get to go home,” Dwayne Schwartz told me as he drove us across the city of Waynesboro today in a dump truck equipped with a plow to move snow from…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You don’t often hear the term radical associated with people in the political center. Mark Warner wants to get you thinking of moderates as radicals anyway. “This is driven by people who are saying, We’re tired of partisanship. We want to get things fixed. They know in their gut that…
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Column by Todd Wickersty TheButterRoom.com It’s been a week since the Hokies disappointed thousands of Virginia Tech alums, students, and fans with a 24-21 loss to Danny Manning and the Kansas Jayhawks. I am still pissed, partly because I’ve been involved in a spirited e-mail exchange with a few other Hokies about public enemy #1,…
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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…
