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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Peak Oil theorists such as Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, Matthew Simmons and others turn out to be correct. Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases. This unfolding trend will radically change human habitation on the Earth. Among the consequences will be the drastic…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized 20th century is dawning. Let’s face…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ninety thousand dollars to raise, a 36-minute piece in Latin to learn. These kids are going to earn their Carnegie Hall stripes. “It’s hard to believe that we’re almost here,” said Amber Long, a sophomore member of the Waynesboro Concert Choir, which is leaving for New York on Friday for…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen There’s a unique and particular view of the world that seems to take over anyone making a movie about anything vaguely Irish. So seeing that it’s St. Patrick’s Day, let’s take a look at this “emerald weltanschauung” also at the best films about all things Irish while…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen If the Academy Awards are telecast at all this year, you’re bound to see plenty of “Blood.” “There Will Be Blood,” that is. The film is nominated for eight Oscars, and is one of the frontrunners for Best Picture. Furthermore, star Daniel Day-Lewis seems to be a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it. Doesn’t it? I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro City Council member Frank Lucente feels that a May 1 News Virginian editorial that labeled him the “puppet master” pulling the strings of the May city elections and asserted that he had promised a political rival a seat on the governing body in two years if she backed…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Several Hollywood films have been made about the tragedies of Sept. 11, 2001. However, in the nearly six years since that day, many Americans (myself included) have been reticent to rekindle the pain we all felt by reliving the stories on film.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner made it a point to tell Virginia politics reporters covering the final year of his term as governor of the Old Dominion that he really felt he was hitting his stride in the job – and while the focus of their editors seemed to be on…
