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Virginia’s roads are congested. And our leaders are tackling the problem – or claiming to do so. Trouble is, too many of the proposals ricocheting around Richmond are small-think. Many politicians think the problem has to be too little money, so they keep demanding higher taxes that, we are assured, the state will use efficiently…
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Basketball honors like Rookie of the Year awards are not like the Oscars where we only see the best results of an actor or director’s work. We see ballers turning the ball over on fast breaks and airballing wide-open threes and getting lit up off the dribble in the course of a season of action…
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– Local News: Staunton man charged in Monday-night murder, Tuesday, 9 a.m. – Local Theater: ShenanArts to open The Secret Garden, Tuesday, 9 a.m.
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A year ago, 26-year-old John C. Odom was a baseball pitcher, good enough to have been drafted into the San Francisco Giants system. On Election Night, John’s partying got out of control, and a cocktail of heroin, methamphetamine, alcohol and the stimulant party drug benzylpiperazine killed him.
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You won’t have to deal with secondhand smoke in Virginia bars and restaurants effective Dec. 1. Gov. Tim Kaine made it offiicial Monday with a ceremony at a bar on the strip in Virginia Beach signing into law legislation banning smoking in Virginia establishments outside of a narrow exception permitting smoking in private clubs and…
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Martin G. (Marty) King of Harrisonburg has been fascinated by airplanes as long as he can remember. This admiration may have been sparked by a childhood spent in Mexico, where his parents, Aaron and Betty King, were missionaries. There, the country’s own “Independence Day” featured flyovers by scores of military aircraft at once.
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Unemployment was at a 25-year high in February, according to data released this morning by the United States Department of Labor. The rate hit 8.1 percent nationally as 851,000 more Americans lost their jobs in the month. The job losses pushed the 12-month running total to 5 million.
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No one seems willing to step forward to do something. That, Waynesboro Economic Development Authority chairman Carl Rosberg told the River City 2020 Forum Thursday, is a big thing holding Waynesboro back economically. Local developer Bill Hausrath called a group of property owners in and around Downtown Waynesboro together last year to try to get…
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Understandably, my closest circle of loved ones (i.e., my mom, my dad, and the hubs) have stopped feigning polite interest in hearing the latest and most likely error-filled findings of my amateur genealogic research.
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There was a time, in the not too distant past, when folks hadn’t ventured too far from their old world shores. They didn’t like to lose sight of land when taking a three-day gambling junket or heading out to invade Troy. Even when Columbus was about to “cross the ocean blue” there were still plenty…
