Chris Graham: Looking ahead to the fall in the Fifth

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected]   The good news on the surface for Fifth District Republicans – somebody won the seven-candidate GOP primary in resounding fashion. The bad news – the winner was the moderate, State Sen. Robert Hurt, and his win, though resounding in one sense, didn’t get him to 50 percent of the…

Bob Goodlatte: Let your voice be heard

Column by Bob Goodlatte www.house.gov/goodlatte   Today, the American people are facing one of the most challenging times in our nation’s history. Our economy remains sluggish, people fear losing their jobs and their homes, and many are worried about the future their children and grandchildren will inherit. They are deeply concerned about the outlook for…

The Road to 2012

Chris Graham

Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected]   Waynesboro didn’t go poof! into the night. There aren’t tumbleweeds running through downtown. (Not yet.) The sun did in fact come up this morning. That’s in spite of another electoral defeat for progressives at the polls in the City Council elections on May 4. Lorie Smith fell short…

Sanford D. Horn: Voting wrongs, gun rights

Chris Graham

Column by Sanford D. Horn Submit guest columns: [email protected]   The Washington Post, the alleged newspaper of record for the nation’s capitol and its metropolitan area, over the past seven days ending with Saturday, April 24, 2010, ran six articles, editorials or columns each decrying the lack of voting rights yet to bestowed upon the…

Ken Plum: A Gordian knot

Ken Plum

Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   According to an ancient Greek legend, oracles told the people of Phrygia that the next person who came into town riding in an ox cart would be their king. When a poor peasant named Gordius arrived with his wife in an ox cart, the lucky man was named king.