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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Writers get the question constantly. “Where do you get your ideas for stories from?” Here’s what we want to say: “Inspiration.” And here’s what we have to admit: “We just pay attention.” “Stories are basically about people who are changed by some type of experience that they’re going through. They…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Can those energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs that are popular now cause headaches because of the flickering they do? I converted my whole house over last fall, and both my kids were complaining of headaches on and off. – Sandy, Eugene, Ore. With a…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Believe it or not, I am supporting Obama,” the e-mail began. And honestly, I didn’t believe it, not at first. Surely Brett Hayes was pulling my chain. We’ve known each other for years, and got to know each other a lot better during my brief city-council campaign in…
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Column by Erica Gies We turn on the tap, and clean water flows. Most of us take this service for granted because we consider water, necessary for life, a basic right. In fact, this notion stems back to an ancient Roman legal precedent called the public trust doctrine. This fundamental tenet says that crucial natural…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You listen to Republicans, and you’d think that the only thing we need to do to address our current fuel and energy crisis is drill, drill, drill and drill some more – even if the Department of Energy, the Bush administration’s Department of Energy, that is, has done…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] To hear John McCain’s Virginia campaign co-chair, Staunton Republican Del. Chris Saxman, tell it, Tim Kaine all but sold presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama down the river this week in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We are glad Gov. Kaine is following John McCain’s leadership and has…
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Column by Haresh Daswani I believe this is a cycle the whole world encounters during growth. It is not only in Beijing, where we have seen the levels of pollution through pictures trying to present the beauty of the new infrastructure. These pictures also showed the price to the environment for those infrastructures. It was…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gotta agree with Chris Saxman on the energy issue. “There isn’t an answer,” Saxman told me yesterday, emphasizing the word “an.” That’s right on point with where I am on the energy issue. There isn’t an answer; it’s a lot more complicated than that.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “I want you to know that I think you’re doing a good job.” “Thanks.” A simple way to begin a conversation that spoke volumes about where things are going in Waynesboro these days. I ran into Tim Williams the other day at the YMCA. OK,…
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Slow Food Nation leader Alice Waters – founder of Berkeley’s famous Chez Panisse Restaurant and author of eight food books – spoke at the small town (8,000 people) Sebastopol Farmers’ Market in Northern California Aug. 3. She was interviewed about the Aug. 29-31 SFN celebration to happen around San Francisco by…
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