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Item by Jim Bishop Among the gifts offered to those attending the 16th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival were visible enthusiasm among participating musicians as they re-created and interpreted selections by some of the world’s most beloved composers. Guest guitar artist Michael Partington stated: “I’m able to play what I want to play, and I…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Two million jobs lost in the past decade. A quarter of a trillion dollar trade deficit just last year. And now we in Waynesboro are supposed to be jumping up and down happy about how Reo Hatfield wants to help China take more of our…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] At first glance, it doesn’t make sense to me that Barack Obama could stand to gain any traction at all with voters with his stance on not accepting campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. But as my friend Steve Farnsworth points out, correctly, Obama could stand to lose some support…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should candidates for public office take money from PACs and lobbyists representing special-interest groups? Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has ruffled some feathers with his ban on campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul has done something of…
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Column by Mike Hodge Change. Hope. Hope for change. These are the buzzwords we have heard for the last couple years in politics. We need change in Richmond. We need change in Washington. Well, we got change in November 2006. Since then we have gotten the housing crisis, record-high gas prices, record-high oil prices, a…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Is the issue really choice? Because if it’s not, Bob Goodlatte is seriously misfiring. “Rather than creating a massive government-managed health-care bureaucracy that will dictate medical decisions from Washington,” Goodlatte told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart yesterday, “we should be concentrating our efforts on making health care more affordable for…
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Item by Jim Bishop Every parent’s worst nightmare is to have a child abducted. In Uganda, that may mean knowing your child is being forced to perform atrocities or being used as a sex slave. This was the reality for Angelina Atyam for seven years. Last week, Atyam told her powerful story of hate and…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia Supreme Court today affirmed an appeals-court ruling granting a woman full visitation rights to the daughter that she had been raising with her former lesbian partner. The decision in the Jenkins v. Miller case also affirms that federal and state laws governing child-custody disputes apply equally to gay,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It was more a gesture than anything else. But Sam Rasoul was out there on the front lines of the gas crisis just the same. “The point of this event was to raise awareness about the energy crisis in this country,” said Rasoul, the Democratic Party nominee in the Sixth…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] How could you vote against the new GI Bill that will provide expanded educational benefits to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? It’s a rhetorical question that Fifth District Democratic Party nominee Tom Perriello is asking about Republican incumbent Virgil Goode’s vote against the bill.
