Earth Talk | A new Ice Age?

Roddy Scheer

Dear EarthTalk: It has been said that global warming will bring a new ice age. Is this true or only fiction? |- Nitisha Jain, Delhi, India While no one can be sure what and how severe the effects of global warming will be, it is entirely possible that one outcome of our profligate use of…

The First Hot Dog Night

Chris Graham

Excerpted from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, by Chris Graham and Patrick Hite In an effort to set a new Virginia women’s basketball single-game attendance record, the promotion that helped set the current mark 22 years ago is back on Nov. 22 vs. Tennessee – Hot Dog Night. All Cavalier…

Medicare Fair Drug Pricing Act

Contributors

Column by Dr. Raj K. Gandhi The Medicare Fair Drug Pricing Act (MFDPA) must replace the Medicare Drug Improvement and Modernization Act (MMA) of 2003. Ever since MMA went into effect in 2006 it has cost an additional $40 billion to $75 billion annually and helped the already rich pharmaceutical and insurance industries get even…

Bipartisan reaction in Virginia to trials of terror suspects

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham The announcement from the Obama administration today that it plans to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Muhammad and four other terrorists to trial in civilian court in New York drew criticism from Democratic Sen. Jim Webb and 10th District Republican Congressman Frank Wolf.

Getting personal

David Reynolds

Column by David Reynolds May we get personal? I would like to talk about your body. Why not? Everybody else is doing it. Everybody is talking about your body. And mine. I do not recall giving anyone permission. I know I did not. For I try to keep my clothes on. But it doesn’t matter…

Two book signings at Bookworks on Saturday

Chris Graham

When a top Nazi scientist arrives at a POW camp in the Shenandoah Valley, he begins to redraw plans for a lost weapon. The device, Germany believes, will disable the U.S. East Coast, leading to America’s surrender or at least a neutrality pact. Cadets at Waynesboro’s Fishburne Military School uncover the plot, also involving a…

Robert Gibbs | Press Gaggle

Contributors

Tuesday, Nov. 10 MR. GIBBS: Good morning, folks. How is everyone? Who’s first? Q Two questions about Fort Hood. Just a logistical question: The schedule has the President meeting with wounded troops twice, before and after the service. Are these all troops wounded in the shooting, or is this two different groups?

InDepth | What happened to Blue Virginia?

Chris Graham

Remember when Virginia was trending Democratic? Like, as recently as late spring, when Creigh Deeds surged to the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, and had the lead in the early post-primary polls, and Virginia Democrats not only seemed headed for another return trip to the Governor’s Mansion, but had a good shot at winning back a…