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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com With the primaries finally over – although it hasn’t really sunk I still wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat, thinking it’s 2037 and hearing Hillary say “If I win in Guam, they’ll have to give me the nomination” – it’s on to…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m still struggling with where our would-be mayor is coming from regarding what he seems to think he wants out of our next city manager. “I, basically, want a city manager to give me the facts, not his opinions or lobbying for a particular cause…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence has a story to tell about the events that led to the effective firing of city manager Doug Walker, and I’m not the first person he’s told it to. By Lawrence’s account, I’m the third journalist to get the details of the meeting…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s still just talk, but even the idea that Jerry Gwaltney might be heading back to Waynesboro for a second try at the city-manager job is starting to worry people who remember his years in the big office in City Hall.
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] How about the sudden about-face of our would-be mayor? “I don’t see any need to air out our discrepancies and our differences. Kind of give Mr. Walker respect,” Tim Williams said in a voicemail message to the News Leader that was reported in that paper’s…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Interesting lunch date for me today with a city official in Staunton, from whom I learned that the recent Staunton City Council elections were similar to the ones in Waynesboro that I was involved in, with one difference. The difference – the progressive candidates in Staunton found…
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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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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “We’re going to undo everything you’ve done the past five years. You don’t want to be around for that.” That’s what they told Doug Walker. Not exactly Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out, but it’s pretty close. And…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more A local union leader e-mailed me yesterday in reference to our Top Story (“The other side of discrimination,” May 26 AFP) to weigh in on the issue of race discrimination in the workplace in the Shenandoah Valley.
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