
It’s blowin’ in the wind
It sounds, if not perfect, then pretty darn close. The answer, or at least an answer, to our energy troubles is blowin’ in the wind. But is it really as simple as putting up turbines and connecting them to the grid?

It sounds, if not perfect, then pretty darn close. The answer, or at least an answer, to our energy troubles is blowin’ in the wind. But is it really as simple as putting up turbines and connecting them to the grid?

– Unemployment in Waynesboro at 7.9 percent, 8:05 p.m. – Moran releases Green Virginia plan, 12:50 p.m. – ACLU says bills would violate religious freedoms, 12:50 p.m. – President Obama on the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act bill signing, 10:37 a.m. – More feel good about direction of country, 9:08 a.m. – State issues…

It’s just words, isn’t it? “That’s so gay.” “He’s gay.” “She’s a lesbian.” Kids say them, they don’t mean anything. Pay attention, and you can still hear the crowd singing “The Good Ol’ Song,” to the tune of “Auld Lang Syne,” after a touchdown at a University of Virginia football game. “We Come from Old…

Tom Perriello statement on House passage of stimulus package, 6:54 p.m. Remarks by President Obama after meeting with Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs, 6:17 p.m. Norfolk, Roanoke papers force employees to furlough, 6:13 p.m. South Korean students to visit Presidential Library, 6:07 p.m. Motorists should expect lane closure tonight on I-81, 3:23 p.m. Airfares highest…

Home sales are down, sale prices are down, but as with everything else in life, it’s all relative. “It’s been a rocky year for real-estate sales across the nation and to some extent across Virginia, although I would say Virginia has fared better than everybody else,” said John McClain, a senior fellow at the George…

Winning on the road in the Atlantic Coast Conference is not supposed to easy. Someone forgot to tell that to Florida State University, as the Seminoles posted an embarrassingly easy 73-62 win over the Virginia Cavaliers Saturday afternoon in John Paul Jones Arena.

So Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is interested in letting a few “good” prisoners out of the gray bar hotel 90 days early as a cost-cutting measure claiming they are “nonviolent offenders who have been model inmates” and were due for a 30-day early dismissal, according to an article written by Anthony Barkow of New York.

Gov. Tim Kaine is pushing an increase on the state tax on cigarette sales. You’d think he was puttiing a surcharge on the air we breathe and the water we drink from listening to the Republicans.

The race for the Democratic Party nomination to run for governor has come to look an awful lot like the race for the Dem nomination to run for the White House that resulted in Barack Obama’s historic victory in November. It started early – when Valley native son Creigh Deeds declared his candidacy for the…

Lars Akerson and Jonathan Spicher are well aware of the major challenge, risk and unknowns facing them, but they feel confident that they’ll persevere “with God’s protection and the support of family and friends.” Akerson, 22, of Harrisonburg, and Spicher, 20, of Lancaster, Pa., will depart Tuesday morning, Jan. 6, from Virginia Mennonite Conference headquarters…
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