Read my lips? Candidates debate taxes

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Carl Tate looks at it as reinforcement. “It reinforces my promise to the citizens of Staunton not to vote to raise their taxes,” said Tate, a candidate for Staunton City Council, who made news in his upstart campaign with his April 8 announcement that he had signed the Taxpayer…

Sanford D. Horn: Voting wrongs, gun rights

Chris Graham

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…

Ken Plum: A Gordian knot

Ken Plum

Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   According to an ancient Greek legend, oracles told the people of Phrygia that the next person who came into town riding in an ox cart would be their king. When a poor peasant named Gordius arrived with his wife in an ox cart, the lucky man was named king.

David Reynolds: Births and boards

David Reynolds

Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected]   “We held on as long as we could,” was the announcement. It came as no surprise. There were numerous warnings to soften this latest blow to our proud past. Still no one was happy. Parents, particularly mothers, were angry. They wanted time as much as money…

Letter requirement for restoration of voting rights dropped

Chris Graham

Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Gov. Bob McDonnell is reportedly pulling back from a proposal that would have required nonviolent offenders in Virginia seeking to have their voting rights restored to write a letter describing the nature of their crime, community services, church activities, improvement made to their educational status, and an explanation as…