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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Frank Lucente’s city-council campaign has officially retired its debt, though it took a late infusion of cash from some big-money supporters for the self-styled fiscal conservative to be able to do so. Lucente had listed a campaign debt of $2,148 on a campaign-finance report filed…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Jim Gilmore and drilling “Someone has to do something for these people out there.” Don’t disagree in the slightest. But Jim Gilmore is trying to suggest that drilling in ANRW and offshore elsewhere around the continental U.S. is going to have an immediate impact on what we’re paying at…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Just because “The Dark Knight” is breaking all kinds of box-office records does not necessarily mean that it’s the greatest thing to come along since plastic vomit. And the fact that it’s worshipped by virtually all the critics doesn’t mean that you and I, dear reader, have…
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Column by Jim Bishop This is a long-overdue fanfare for the uncommon people – those who quietly go about their business repairing other peoples’ messes, often literally. Yet, their valiant efforts are too seldom recognized and appreciated. There’s no question where to begin – with a group of men who came to the rescue at…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How’s this for a juxtaposition? Wayne Theatre Alliance chairman Bill Hausrath calls himself “an eternal optimist,” while I’m an preternaturally-pessimistic political realist. But while Hausrath is wondering aloud if the Wayne project can survive without already-promised city funding coming as expected, I think it can, or rather, that…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to resist the temptation to wonder aloud if tattering on the freedom to ride a moped in Waynesboro sans chapeau is a better-to-do-with-our-time kind of thing or not. Because I didn’t realize until I read the editorial in today’s News Virginian that city…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Would you support the adoption of some kind of universal health care system in the U.S.? As recently as a year or two ago, mention of the words universal health care in the context of the ongoing national discussion of what to do to address the growing…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro is losing its third top city-government employee in the last four months. Economic-development director Meghan Williamson submitted her resignation today effective Aug. 8. Williamson had been in the post for two-plus years. Williamson’s departure comes on the heels of the departures of former city attorney Bob Lunger, who resigned…
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Column by Jim Bishop Right in the middle of a crazy afternoon in the office, the phone rang (again), and I was tempted to let it go to voicemail. But, I answered, and was glad I did. “Hi, Jim, this is Harvey . . . Harvey Holiday.” Was I hearing things? No, it was indeed…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Thelma Newman remembers the anticipation of a late 1980s documentary produced by WVPT on the history of Staunton. Her father-in-law had been among those interviewed for the film, for one thing. The hopes of Newman and others in the Staunton African-American community that the film would do their…
