The value of service

AFP

   Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” In…

Deeds: Work to do to balance state budget

Chris Graham

   Column by Creigh Deeds www.creighdeeds.com Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 will be the commencement of the 2010 session of the General Assembly. This is the 60-day session when the biennial budget is adopted. This will be a tough time for Virginia government, those responsible for managing it, and those who depend on state services. In…

Charter school debate

Ken Plum

   Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Among the topics that are likely to be fiercely debated this legislative session are revisions to Virginia’s charter-school law. The Center for Education Reform, advocates for expanding charter schools, recently gave Virginia a failing grade on its charter school law (www.charterschoolresearch.com). An idea of what the Center feels is…

On knowing when to ‘say when’ in 2010

Jim Bishop

   Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] Wonder if I can write anything substantive while riding shotgun in our 2001 Alero on the Pennsylvania Turnpike on a bitterly cold Sunday morning while returning to Harrisonburg? Stay tuned and see . . . I was hoping to start a column draft during three glorious…

Cuccinelli names AG leadership team

Chris Graham

Former aide to Del. Lohr among those tapped Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Attorney General-elect Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II announced his leadership team for the Office of the Attorney General today. In making his appointments, Cuccinelli commented “I, and the citizens of the Commonwealth, are fortunate to have such a talented group of people who…

BOS reopens Riverheads fire-rescue station location process

Chris Graham

  Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Slow down. That’s what the Augusta County Board of Supervisors has decided to do with its work to get a new fire and rescue station in the Riverheads area going. “We just want to make sure that we’ve got the right place, that there are no other places out…

School Board: Let’s stay the course

Chris Graham

Controversial redistricting plan still on table for 2010-2011 Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A proposal from Waynesboro School Board Chairman Jeremy Taylor to table consideration of a controversial school-redistricting plan to the fall failed to win the approval of a majority of Board members tonight. School Board members Brian Edwards, Jonathan Lovelady and Doug Norcross…

Reid joins UVa. staff as defensive coordinator

Chris Graham

Former UR head coach returns to college game from NFL Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia head football coach Mike London announced Jim Reid has joined the Cavalier football coaching staff. He becomes the sixth member of London’s staff and will serve as the defensive coordinator and associate head coach. “I am very pleased to…