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We’re a week and a couple of days out from the gubernatorial primary, and it’s an otherwise slow news day, so what qualifies as news for me today is something I’d passed on last week regarding poll numbers. These numbers are from Public Policy Polling, and they had Creigh Deeds gaining ground but still a…
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– Local News: Delays on I-81 in Rockbridge – Local News: WWRC trail receives VCC recognition – Event: Longaberger bingo to benefit Food Bank – Politics: will.i.am cuts McAuliffe radio spot – Politics: Wagner gets PAC endorsement
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– Politics: Wagner hits the airwaves – Local News: Mayor hosting sustainability summit – Event: Task force to talk smoking cessation – Local News: Crozet travel pro honored
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The recently established Governor’s Poverty Taskforce and Poverty Summit, an event held in Richmond on May 7th, has been given extensive coverage. I find it troubling that not one person on the task force is poor himself, herself. Do the poor have nothing to contribute? It’s almost as if we, the well-heeled, should not be…
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Tyler Wertman, a student from Hugh K. Cassell Elementary School in Augusta County, was recently recognized by AAA Mid-Atlantic for being chosen as an outstanding AAA school safety patrol for 2009. Tyler was selected from 294 elementary schools that utilize the AAA’s signature school safety program throughout Central and Western Virginia.
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– Reminder: Green Valley/Green Economy forum tonight – Local News: Chester to provide update on assessments lawsuit – Local News: Harrisonburg company wins top award for TV commercial – Local News: Opportunity to provide input on state transportation spending – Business News: DuPont Community Credit Union announces election results – Business News: Downtown-housing workshop in…
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– Local News: Valley Community Services Board gets state grant to establish Crisis Intervention Team – Event: Author explores POWs in Valley in WWII – Event: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Festival set for July 11
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Our recent efforts in Washington are focused on consumer relief and protection as we continue working to reinvigorate our sluggish economy. I am very hopeful that, by mid-summer, we will have a much clearer picture of whether our efforts to create jobs through smart, long-overdue investments in our country’s future have taken hold.
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Much has been written about Jack Kemp since his passing a couple of weeks ago. Kemp was a former football star turned congressman who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first President Bush and was the 1996 Republican vice-presidential nominee. He was a pragmatist who became well known for reaching across…
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A workshop on childhood obesity has been set for Wednesday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to noon at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave.
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