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Two NCAA Tournaments in three years and a brief period at #1 in the national polls wasn’t enough to save Dino Gaudio’s job as head coach at Wake Forest, where Gaudio’s teams went a combined 61-31. The idea that Jeff Bzdelik will be employed too much longer into the future after going 34-60 in three seasons seems more and more remote.
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The following are excerpts of opening remarks by U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA) during today’s hearing by the Senate Budget Committee on the release of a Fiscal Year 2014 budget:
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Budget Committee, released the following statement on the budget proposal introduced today.
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Angela M. Smith, associate professor of philosophy at Washington and Lee University, has been named the first Roger Mudd Professor of Ethics and the first director of the University’s new Roger Mudd Center for Ethics.
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Staunton City Manage Stephen F. Owen announced today the selection of Steven L. Rosenberg as assistant city manager. Rosenberg replaces James M. Halasz, who left Staunton to accept the position of Halifax County administrator last July.
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U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, a member of the Senate Budget and Armed Services committees, delivered a speech on the Senate floor today urging his colleagues to pass the proposed spending bill for the remainder of the fiscal year – the next step toward returning to an orderly budget process.
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William Hayes returns from the frozen tundra of Canton, Ohio, and takes his seat at the keyboard for the March 15 River City Radio Hour.
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The makeup of the electric grid of the future is at stake as the fossil fuel industry continues to falsely lessen the impact of renewable energy.
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The federal government is now faced with a small reduction in its rate of growth over the next ten years. The “sequester” is nothing more than $880 billion dollars in “on paper” reductions from projected spending in the next decade. As Forbes Magazine recently pointed out, the sequester deal put forth by Obama and accepted by the Republican majority in the House is actually a $110 billion spending increase!
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I introduced my new project here on Augusta Free Press earlier in a posting called Swinging for the Fences. As I explained there, the project is intended to equip us to gain better control of our destiny, as a nation, as a civilization, as a species. It begins with understanding what we’re up against.
