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Column by Bob Goodlatte With spring under way, warmer weather is returning, the days are growing longer, and everything is in bloom. Unfortunately, the arrival of spring also kicks off a second and largely unwelcomed season. This season is marked by piles of forms, confusing instructions, and the prospect of turning your hard-earned money over…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. reached the conclusion that the only way we could change America was without violence. Andrew Young was among those who joined King, who was assassinated 40 years ago this week, in the fight to extend basic civil rights to African Americans. Young was welcomed with open…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I had Bill Bolling on the line, so I had to ask. Are you running for governor next year? “Everywhere I go, it seems that the only question that’s on everybody’s mind is, Are you going to run for governor in 2009? So despite my best efforts to get everybody…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you’re Jim Gilmore, and you’re running for the United States Senate. You’ve served as a state attorney general, running the biggest law firm in the state for four pretty solid years. You’re a former governor who won election by a comfortable margin over a two-term Democratic lieutenant governor in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling stressed that his decision to stay out of the 2009 governor’s race had nothing to do with trying to avoid a pitched battle with Attorney General Bob McDonnell. But you have to wonder if that wasn’t a big reason that the Republican is essentially ceding the…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Each week, folks across the Sixth District and the nation are confronted with the rising cost of energy, from the gas pump to their electric and gas bills. Energy is vital to every sector of the U.S. economy, including homes, small businesses and industries. When energy supplies are tight, families and…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Just last week, the House majority unveiled their proposed budget resolution for fiscal year 2009, which calls for the largest tax increase in American history: $683 billion over the next five years. This proposal significantly increases the tax burden on the middle class to pay for new wasteful government spending. Facing a slowing…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller The issues of illegal immigration and racism have long been topics of spirited discussion. And the issues have not disappeared in the last few years, and in fact have only been growing into more of a flash point. Bridgewater College welcomed three speakers who talked to the students and faculty members…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike Krzyzewski is universally reviled in the parts of the ACC outside of Durham, but I have seen twice now how much he bleeds Atlantic Coast Conference blood. Back a couple of years ago, I famously asked Coach K about the perception that the conference…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] University of Virginia professor Peter Rodriguez is avoiding using the word recession right now. He’s one of the few people that I know of who is doing this, so I want to give him credit. “My take would be that we have entered a slowdown,” said Rodriguez, a business-administration professor…
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