
David Cox | Plaudits and Pans
The good news: Virginia’s legislature ended its session on time, for a change. The bad news: We’re still not sure what it did.

The good news: Virginia’s legislature ended its session on time, for a change. The bad news: We’re still not sure what it did.

I like people who think in terms of business plans. So I’m beginning to like Terry McAuliffe. “I’m taking the same approach to figuring out how to get our economy going again that I’ve taken with businesses I’ve started or turned around. I’m starting with a Business Plan for Virginia,” said McAuliffe, a candidate for…

Megan Blosser worked four or five nights a week for six months with her dance partner, Kristina Winn, on the dance routine that won the duet recognition at the recent DanceMakers Inc. competition in Richmond. That’s how you have to do it to get every step, every move of the arms, every smile just right.

– Local News: JMU school psych alumni honored for leading change in field, Friday, 10:25 a.m. – Local Events: Local artisan to exhibit at Waynesboro Heritage Museum, Friday, 10:25 a.m.

Over the past few months, the news has been almost incomprehensible. It’s hard for many of us to make sense of the failure of major Wall Street firms and large banks and the $700 billion bailout of the financial sector. And it’s hard for investors to be calm when stocks have fallen more than 40…

Dear EarthTalk: I don’t eat meat, for a variety of ethical and environmental reasons, and I’d rather not feed it to my cat, either. Do cats have to be carnivores? – John McManus, Needham, Mass.

– Local News: JMU College of Business holds top 5 percent spot in BusinessWeek rankings, Tuesday, 2 p.m. – Local Events: Harriet Tubman Day in Harrisonburg, Tuesday, 11 a.m.

The city appears to be closing in on an amicable resolution to the lingering dispute over the removal of a freestanding brick wall in a pedestrian mall in the heart of Doiwntown Waynesboro. “We have a tentative plan in place, and the city is moving forward,” said Constance Paradiso, the owner of the 329 W….

In second-day clothes after a canceled flight, we used the provided kits to brush our teeth and create some semblance of presentability for this unexpected stay. Working from a darkened hallway after room checkout, we waited for the evening shuttle to take us back to the airport, hoping for a positive outcome during this winter…

Nancy Dowdy was surprised, to say the least, to hear that the not-anywhere-close-to-being-shovel-ready Shenandoah Village Drive extension had made its way into the package of proposals for federal stimulus money up approved by Waynesboro City Council last week. She has an idea as to why it ended up in the submission to the state for…