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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com I should have seen this coming. I’ve been around the edges of it for years now. After watching the Bush machine slowly grind America into a second-rate debtor nation, I figured we were on our way to becoming Great Britain or France. I even thought – if the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia Organizing Project is going to be walking the beat this summer. The VOP will be knocking on 300,000 doors this summer in one of the more ambitious civic-engagement projects I’ve heard about in recent years.
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Item by Crystal Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Exchange Club is opening its doors – inviting business leaders to join them in making the country a better for place for all. As part of the nation’s most established service organization, Exchange Club members are business and professional leaders working with families and fellow citizens to improve…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’d like to get all worked up about how great it is that Waynesboro City Council figured out a way to save stormwater despite the pressure from the ultraconservatives to delay things another year, but … I have to say that I’m disappointed. I’m sure…
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Enough already! Every word, every thought, every nuanced phrase uttered, has been placed under a microscope to the point that if a candidate doesn’t answer quickly enough he or she isn’t smart enough, but if the same candidate answers too quickly, he or…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Item by Jim Bishop Sixteen students, a faculty member and a staff person from Eastern Mennonite University are safe in China following the devastating May 12 earthquake there. Their travel and study plans are being modified, but the group will complete their scheduled term. Part of the EMU group had arrived in Beijing May 12…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Willow Oak Plaza in Downtown Waynesboro will play host to a Jungle Safari beginning Wednesday. You can get your picture taken holding a real lion cub, watch monkeys at play, pet and feed the llama and other animals, ride camels and ponies and more. The safari runs through Sunday.
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized 20th century is dawning. Let’s face…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Webb’s Post-9/11 G.I. Bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, moving the nation a giant step closer to doing the same thing for recent military veterans that we did for the heroes of World War II. “(Thursday’s) House vote places veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars one…
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