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Story by Crystal Graham Kathryn McMillan has a good reason for urging others to prepare for every possible emergency situation. Fire, flooding, even a tornado, are all possible on any given day, at any time. When a fire struck her apartment in Staunton years ago, she thankfully wasn’t home. Nor was her husband, Tony. A neighbor…
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Op-ed by Jessica O’Brien As an independent health- and life-insurance broker in Williamsburg, I deal with people looking for health-insurance coverage on a daily basis. It is very satisfying to be able to help folks find affordable, comprehensive coverage that offers them security in the event of a medical problem, and many of the health-insurance…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I thought we’d already decided as a nation that the massive federal budget deficits that Reaganomics brought with them were decidedly bad for the economy. Seems like some of us didn’t get the memo. “It’s important that we have a president who understands how to get our economy moving…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything is on the table, Gov. Tim Kaine told state legislators today as the two sides began to address a projected billion-dollar shortfall in the current biennial state budget. “The need to engage in a third major round of budget reductions will mean, by necessity, that all programs — including…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia’s unemployment rate is still solid relative to the national rate, which is good news. But there’s bad news in the fact that our rate has climbed a full percentage point in the past year, and more expected job losses are looming later this summer. Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic nominee Tom Perriello is talking about economic revival in Southside and Central Virginia. Perriello launched his REVIVAL plan for the economies of the Fifth yesterday at an event in Martinsville, which has the highest unemployment rate in Virginia, at 10.5 percent in May, and that was before…
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Item by Jim Bishop The walls will soon come tumblin’ down. Oakwood residence hall at Eastern Mennonite University, beloved by many alumni as an enclave for male pranksters, located on the quad adjacent to Maplewood and Elmwood residences, will be demolished late August. A new 120-room residence hall will replace Oakwood with a projected budget…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Does Augusta County need an economic-development department? It amazes me that Augusta County government has been able to get along as long as it has without an economic-development department to build on what the county has at its economic disposal for the future. OK, so yeah, I…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the Hatfield out of the Hatfield-McCoy feudin’, but you can’t take the feudin’ out of the Hatfield. “It’s a disservice to those who have given their lives,” Reo Hatfield told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart for a story in today’s paper ostensibly…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The man who would be mayor slinked out of the city-council chambers quietly through a back door. He didn’t want to face the group of close to 50 people who had just given the man that he had asked three weeks ago to submit his…
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