Shepherd Bliss: No blow movement grows

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Column by Shepherd Bliss Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Peter and Susan Kendall of Orinda, Northern California, are not your typical political activists. This couple really wants some peace and quiet, so they can be comfortable within their suburban home and with their backyard chickens, berries and tomatoes. But wait! While at their home recently…

Bain: ‘I don’t think big-government solutions work’

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   One of the major parties, Sixth District congressional candidate Stuart Bain says, wants to tax and spend. The other “wants to spend, but they don’t want to tax.” “Both of the major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, have progressive government plans. It’s just a matter of, do they…

Jim Bishop: Their labor of love pays special tribute to a friend

Jim Bishop

Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected]   It might even strike some as morose at first blush: asking friends to build your casket. But this poignant experience provided a tangible way for a group of church members to express a deep level of caring for the Wayne and Shannon Sneary family of Harrisonburg….

Ken Plum: Virginia’s Forgotten

Ken Plum

Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   We had a wind-up Victrola at home when I was growing up. It was a handed-down piece of furniture rather than a serious music-making machine. A few cranks on the handle on the side, lift the arm and put the needle in the beginning track on the 78 rpm…

The World According To ChrisGraham.com: They keep playing the same broken record

Chris Graham

We’ve been at this for 10 years now. Maybe in another 10 years Waynesboro will develop some common sense and realize what the Wayne Theatre project is. It’s called economic development, folks. Just like they did over in Staunton with Blackfriars. Hell, just like we did here in Waynesboro at the Town Center, and before…