Support the troops!

AFP

Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more “The GI Bill gives emphatic notice to the men and women in our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on signing the original G.I Bill for returning veterans The Iraq and Afghanistan…

Richardson enters Dem race in Sixth

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Drew Richardson is used to applying scientific principles to solve problems. Running a political campaign, though, isn’t as much about science as it is effort, effort and more effort. “My efforts in the next couple of months are largely going to be directed towards winning that convention,” said Richardson, who…

Del. Cline reports on the first week of ’08 GA session

Chris Graham

General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With the bang of the speaker’s gavel at noon last Wednesday, the 2008 session of the Virginia General Assembly began. It’s fitting that the bang of a gavel sounds a lot like the firing of a starter’s pistol in a track race. In Virginia, the legislative session…

Reaching out to victims of crisis

Jim Bishop

Story by Jim Bishop Brenda C. Fairweather wanted to respond in some way to a hostage crisis in Russia in which more than 300 civilians eventually lost their lives. On Sept. 1, 2004, terrorists linked to the Chechen independence struggle took more than 1,200 people hostage in a school in the town of Beslan. Shootings…