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You look at the money race in the Fifth District, and it’s no race at all, really. Democrat Tom Perriello has $1.7 million in cash on hand while his Republican opponent, Robert Hurt, has $212,000, according to reports filed by the respective campaigns with the Federal Election Commission. Those numbers are bound to change between…
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Column by Peter A. Bradford Submit guest columns: [email protected] Over the last half century, the government has repeatedly kept information secret because it would be embarrassing. President Obama wants the federal bureaucracy to reform this harmful tradition. The Department of Energy website proclaims, “From his first day in office, President Obama has pushed to…
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Column by Jim Bishop [email protected] “Cheese it, the cops!” Now, where did that phrase originate? Did a bunch of dudes get caught while breaking into the refrigerated section of a super market? Fortunately – I guess – a quick Google search provides this cheesy explanation: “Cheese it!” was a popular expression in the 19th…
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Column by Chris DeWald Submit guest columns: [email protected] It has been a while since I have written or submitted a post. I shall touch on a serious matter that might affect us all and more with those with light skin. In the past, I have had skin cancerous cells removed, and just had a…
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Column by Jenny Hypes [email protected] In early elementary school, I was dead set on becoming a doctor, until I found out math and science were priorities. After giving up on my lifelong dream, I decided being a Spice Girl was the next best thing. Although they were not particularly good singers, they had great…
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Millions of gallons of water are used to literally fracture the earth to get at the natural gas below. And below is the operative word – hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, as it’s commonly called, aims at natural-gas reserves anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 feet beneath the earth’s surface. The good news is that natural gas…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell announced Wednesday that the Commonwealth of Virginia has posted a preliminary revenue surplus at the conclusion of the 2010 fiscal year on June 30. The surplus, after miscellaneous interest payments are distributed, will be at least $220 million, according to new estimates. The primary source of the surplus comes from individual withholding…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] DuPont Community Credit Union saw steady growth at the end of the second quarter of 2010 for total lending compared to the second quarter of 2009, it was announced today. The Waynesboro-headquartered credit union, which operates nine branches in the Central Shenandoah Valley region, reported a 0.6 percent increase in total…
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“Wow!” Not exactly what you want to hear from your new dentist when he’s taking his first gander into your mouth. “Let me clarify. That’s a good Wow!” he added after a pause. Phew! My assumption that my teeth were rotting out of my head: wrong. I hadn’t been to the dentist in (gasp!) 20…
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Column by Yifat Susskind Submit guest columns: [email protected] The shy 14-year-old was not sure how many people she had killed. “When it was my turn to shoot someone, I always hid my face because I was afraid.” Julia (not her real name) is one of thousands of children in Colombia who have been recruited…
