Webb to postmaster general: Keep post offices open until reform is enacted
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Sen. Jim Webb has asked Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to extend the moratorium on the closing of post office facilities
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Farmers pleased about withdrawn youth labor regs
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Farm families and their relatives across Virginia are welcoming the recent decision to withdraw proposed federal restrictions on underage farm employees. “Agriculture is something that is learned” at the side of an older farmer, said Jonathan Cavin, a Lee County beef, produce and tobacco grower who recalled helping his father plow fields when he was…
Warner joins in introducing bipartisan Alzheimer’s legislation
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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine), the Senate co-chairs of the bipartisan Congressional Task Force on Alzheimer’s Disease, today introduced a bipartisan Senate resolution affirming the national goal of preventing and treating Alzheimer’s by 2025. Reps. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced companion legislation in…
Webb joins senators in letter on Asia-Pacific basing
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U.S. Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Jim Webb (D-Va.) today sent the following letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta regarding a new agreement with the Government of Japan on U.S. force posture in the Asia-Pacific region.
PD holds drug take-back day on Saturday
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The Waynesboro Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration will give the public an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. Bring your medications for disposal to Wal-Mart located at 116 Lucy Lane on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The…
Kaine sees Waynesboro business working firsthand
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Third in a series It can be easy for politicians running for office to stay within the bubble of campaign events – shaking hands, making speeches, eating on the run, rinse, repeat. U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine has been making it a point to get out from under the bubble with a series of walking…
Virginians overwhelmingly support ban on gas drilling in national forests
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Seventy percent of Virginians who sent comments to the U.S. Forest Service support a ban on horizontal drilling for natural gas on the George Washington National Forest, according to an analysis released Monday by the Shenandoah Valley Network and the Bergton-based Land, Air, Water Stewardship Action group. The report documenting broad public support for the…
Allen visits Luray on campaign stop
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George Allen led a town-hall-style meet-and-greet in the open air outside the entrance of Luray Caverns in Luray Saturday afternoon. His main topic of discussion revolved around how rising gasoline prices are adversely impacting the people of the Shenandoah Valley. “I am running for the Senate because I don’t like where things are going,” said…
Federal farm bill’s scope is much broader than farms
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The details of the 2012 farm bill are being ironed out in Congress now, as much of the current law in the 2008 farm bill expires in 2012. While the farm bill does include commodity program support, most of the funds from the bill are allocated to nutrition and food assistance programs such as the…
Warner urges House to pass transportation bill
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U.S. Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) today urged the U.S. House to take up a bipartisan Senate transportation bill before the March 31st cut-off of federal funding impacts jobs and ongoing transportation projects across Virginia and the rest of the country. The Senate’s two-year proposal supports an estimated 39,800 highway construction and transit jobs in…
