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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more There have been over 60,000 official U.S. casualties, and about 4,000 U.S. dead in Iraq. So far. (That doesn’t count, for some reason, the “private contractors.”) There is no rural community, no urban or suburban neighborhood, without families that have suffered devastating combat…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] More of your taxpayer dollars are headed toward the wastebasket. “It is my belief that Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban, passed overwhelmingly by the people’s elected representatives in the General Assembly, is constitutional. Given the significance of the issues at stake, and the fact that the United States…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Peak Oil theorists such as Richard Heinberg, James Howard Kunstler, Matthew Simmons and others turn out to be correct. Petroleum supplies are declining as demand increases. This unfolding trend will radically change human habitation on the Earth. Among the consequences will be the drastic…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve done crazy things before. Quitting my job to start a local-news website, that was crazy. Running for city council, knowing full well that I was making myself a target for all manner of unfair personal and political attacks, which then came just as I…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Some random thoughts on what’s going on in sports these days … – How do you like the way UVa. is selling its football packages next year? You can buy Southern Cal tickets without having to buy season tickets now, but you have to buy them…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized 20th century is dawning. Let’s face…
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Item by Jim Bishop By popular demand, Eastern Mennonite University will repeat its online course on “Basics of Parish Nursing,” June 23-July 28, 2008. EMU’s Adult Degree Completion Program sponsors the course, which is open to any registered nurse or upper-level nursing student in an RN nursing education program. Parish nursing in the United States…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A bipartisan group of United States senators including Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb is calling on the United States Postal Service to issue the Purple Heart stamp on a permanent basis. “This is a most appropriate way to honor past and future recipients of our nation’s oldest military decoration,” said…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Valley Music Academy is presenting Student Music Recitals on May 17 at 7 p.m. at Main Street United Methodist Church in Waynesboro. Also on the schedule at the academy is a May 31, 7 p.m., Valley Voices and Jazz Ensemble Concert at Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church in Waynesboro. That…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ninety thousand dollars to raise, a 36-minute piece in Latin to learn. These kids are going to earn their Carnegie Hall stripes. “It’s hard to believe that we’re almost here,” said Amber Long, a sophomore member of the Waynesboro Concert Choir, which is leaving for New York on Friday for…
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