David Reynolds: Births and boards

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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “We held on as long as we could,” was the announcement. It came as no surprise. There were numerous warnings to soften this latest blow to our proud past. Still no one was happy. Parents, particularly mothers, were angry. They wanted time as much as money…

Bruce Sallan: Your kids need you, even when you’re on vacation

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A Dad’s Point-of-View column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com   I learned something very simple, very basic, and very important about parenting while on vacation, overseas, these past three weeks. I was being selfish. I have two teenagers who needed their dad, and this three-week trip was an indulgence that wasn’t necessary, was too long, and…

David Cox: What’s bad for the goose …

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Column by David Cox Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Barack Obama’s signature on the health-care bill had hardly dried before Virginia’s attorney general, Kenneth Cuccinelli, filed suit declaring that requiring individuals to buy insurance is beyond the scope of federal power. He follows the thinking of the General Assembly’s first-in-the-nation bipartisan exemption of state residents…

David Reynolds: Obsession

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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “Call me Ishmael.” I, too, will try to explain obsession. I will try to explain one president’s drive to enact one piece of legislation – ObamaCare. However, if you are familiar with Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” there is no need. You already know about Captain Ahab…

David Reynolds: Paradise lost

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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Does anyone out there in paradise care about anybody besides themselves? If not, then we have lost a community. We have lost paradise. Over 700 area residents attended the SRO public hearing held last week at the Rockbridge County High School to hear comments on the…

Chris Graham: Landesberg-NBA, Hokies really on the bubble?

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]   Sylven Learning Center It’s all speculation, but the speculation is that second-team All-ACC forward Sylven Landesberg may have played his last game for Virginia. The idea that Landesberg is at all ready for the NBA is almost laughable. The 6-6 swingman is a solid college player, but I don’t…

Story/Video: Augusta Health program brings tennis to the disabled

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]    Mel Curry tries to “hit the fur off that ball.” Robbie Thomas is more an angles and drop shot guy. “My shoulders are wearing out, but I’m not going to give up any of this,” said Thomas, after a recent exhibition match against Curry, a former United States Tennis…