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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Everybody seems to want Gregg Williams to be the next Washington Redskins coach. I guess what everybody really wants, then, is for the ‘Skins to slide back into mediocrity. I’m being blunt here, but also accurate – when you look at the NFL head-coaching record…
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Column by Todd Wickersty TheButterRoom.com It’s been a week since the Hokies disappointed thousands of Virginia Tech alums, students, and fans with a 24-21 loss to Danny Manning and the Kansas Jayhawks. I am still pissed, partly because I’ve been involved in a spirited e-mail exchange with a few other Hokies about public enemy #1,…
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Story by Bonnie P. Lofton When Lisa L. Schirch, professor of peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, launched the 3D Security Initiative in November 2006, she had no way of knowing how long it might take for 3D to gain the attention of top decisionmakers in this country. Regardless of the months, years or even decades…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The federal government is leaner and meaner – OK, so that’s me trying to be funny there, I admit it. But when it comes to funding for the national park system, times are lean and rather mean when it comes to items in the budget that are of an infrastructure…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A 9-6 record heading into the start of the ACC season proper isn’t bad for this Virginia Tech basketball team, considering the losses – Zabian Dowdell, Jamon Gordon, Coleman Collins – that coach Seth Greenberg had to account to graduation from his 2006-2007 team that played into the second round…
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Column by Jim Bishop Negotiating heavy traffic on Interstate 81, heading south from Pennsylvania to Harrisonburg after a too brief holiday visit with extended family, I’m thinking how fortunate that my happiness doesn’t depend on acquiring more “stuff” at this heavily-commercialized time of year.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that this gets said often and in different ways, but given what I’m dealing with in the wake of my father’s passing this week, I think it bears repeating. Get your affairs in order just in case something unexpected happens – if only for the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s really not that important – whatever it was. Pick up the phone. Stop by and visit. It won’t be easy. I’m not saying that it will be. But what happens if, say, you haven’t spoken to your, oh, I don’t know, your dad, in two years,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Agencies that had shied away from applying for funding allocations from the United Way of Greater Augusta because of the charitable organization’s fund-raising blackouts got some good news last month. The local United Way has done away with the restrictions on raising money during the United Way campaign season for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s just … time. The Skyline Drive was built back in the 1930s and was last touched up in the mid-1980s. “Essentially it’s time for a new construction,” Shenandoah National Park spokesperson Karen Beck-Herzog said of the work that has begun on the drive between Milepost 31.5 at Thornton Gap…
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