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Column by Mark Warner www.warner.senate.gov In recent days we’ve seen another tough economic blow for our friends and families in Southside Virginia. Stanley Furniture, a fixture in Henry County for nearly 90 years, announced it will shutter its factory near Martinsville and relocate more than 560 jobs overseas. That tough news comes on the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] We’ve bailed out Wall Street. Maybe we could term this one the bailout of Sesame Street. “We all have to remember that the federal government came to the aid of Wall Street quickly because they saw the need. We just ask that they would do the same for our…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] In order to better understand a subject its best to view it from a different angle. So we headed north, being careful to avoid our subject, the city we love to hate. Yes, your humble scribe traveled to New Jersey to get a better fix on…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wildlife Center of Virginia announced on Tuesday that Buddy, the bald eagle from Norfolk admitted to the Waynesboro-based Center as a patient in May 2008, will become a permanent resident at the Center.
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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…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] It’s a telling sketch. Local actor-playwright Ted Swartz plays a college student who comes home and tells his father that he decided to change his major from theater to pre-med. “I want to become a brain surgeon,” the young man tells his dad. The father, an…
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Column by Linda Meric Submit guest columns: [email protected] On Tuesday, April 20, people across the nation observed Equal Pay Day 2010 – representing the point when women’s wages finally catch up to men’s wages from last year. According to the most recent U.S. Census Bureau statistics, women who work in full-time, year-round jobs earn,…
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Column by Christian Ramirez Submit guest columns: [email protected] Reforming our obsolete immigration system is a human rights issue that can no longer wait. Our nation needs a clear and workable path toward legal residency for the millions of undocumented workers and families living in this country.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Following a 2007 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation today jointly issued a final rule on curbing carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from light-duty vehicles, which contribute about one-fourth of America’s share of the world’s climate-change pollution.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Beginning today through April 10, many Virginia households will receive a replacement 2010 Census questionnaire designed to increase census mail participation, get a better count for the state, and save taxpayers the higher cost of sending out census takers to collect information.
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