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– Local News: Traffic delays on I-64 in Albemarle this weekend, Saturday, 4 p.m. – State News: Prosecutors drop charges against McCain T-shirt scofflaw, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Community Bank begins food drive, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: VDOT road work schedule, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Staunton Police warn of…
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The Virginia State Police and the Virginia Trucking Association are partnering in an effort to make drivers in the Commonwealth more aware of the state’s Move Over law requiring motorists to slow down and move over when possible when encountering law enforcement and emergency-services personnel pulled over on roadsides. AFP editor Chris Graham reports on…
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Psst. Anybody looking over your shoulder? Just checking. Can’t be too careful these days. But I trust you even if your elected representatives do not. I am sorry that you were not in the loop. I was left out, too. So all either of us knows is what we read and hear. Not enough to…
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Dear EarthTalk: Some say that polar bears are going to disappear in 50 years, but Alaskan officials insist their populations are recovering. What’s the real story? – Harper Howe, San Francisco, Calif.
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Glenn DuBois was, of all things, booking a vacation on Expedia.com when inspiration struck. “I was quite amazed that I could go to one place to plan a vacation and shop and compare prices and shop hotels and create an account and plan an itinerary and pay for it. I was with one of my…
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– Local News: Project to help homeless in Harrisonburg, Monday, 1:45 p.m. – Local Events: Temple to host Holocaust remembrance, Monday, 1:45 p.m. – Local News: Wellness Fair at EMU, Monday, 10:10 a.m. – Local News: VDOT road work schedule, Monday, 10:10 a.m.
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The Highland County Board of Supervisors has unwisely proposed that the Commonwealth of Virginia provide $1.5 million in economic stimulus money to help facilitate the proposed Highland New Wind Development project in order to “enhance the long‐term returns to the county, developer and Commonwealth.”
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Waynesboro might soon be thinking green. “I would really like to see us working toward some green initiatives,” Waynesboro City Councilwoman Lorie Smith said at Monday’s City Council meeting, selling the idea of having the city use its waynesboro.va.us website to encourage more green-friendly thinking among city residents and having the city government work to…
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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.
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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…
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