Getting personal

David Reynolds

Column by David Reynolds May we get personal? I would like to talk about your body. Why not? Everybody else is doing it. Everybody is talking about your body. And mine. I do not recall giving anyone permission. I know I did not. For I try to keep my clothes on. But it doesn’t matter…

Jim Bishop | On Examining a Grain of Mustard Seed

Jim Bishop

The only thing that’s permanent is change, the saying goes.  I only wish it weren’t so brutally true. I don’t embrace too well most change that comes my way. I like things to purr along on a steady course, with surprises that pop up being of the pleasurable variety. Particularly difficult for me are the…

Wolf: ‘We are going broke

AFP

Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) today told the Senate Budget Committee that the only way to address the nation’s growing debt is to create a bipartisan commission and require Congress to vote up or down its recommendations. Wolf, who for three years has been advocating for a blue ribbon panel that would put everything from entitlement…

Wilson scholar headlines Presidential Library event

Chris Graham

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum today announced that Dr. John Milton Cooper Jr., the foremost Woodrow Wilson scholar in the country and author of a new biography about President Wilson, will be the 2009 Annual Luncheon Speaker on Friday, Nov. 13, at noon at the Stonewall Jackson Hotel and Conference Center in Staunton….

SRI marks formal grand opening

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham With AFP Video It’s nearly been three years since state leaders announced the move of SRI International to locate its East Coast research and development headquarters north of Harrisonburg. Local and state officials marked the formal grand opening of SRI’s new Center for Advanced Drug Research on Monday afternoon. “Today, we…

The Pulse | ‘Interesting’ week for Kaine, DNC

Chris Graham

The media and Republicans are howling about the gubernatorial-election trainwrecks in Virginia and New Jersey spelling early doom for the agenda of President Barack Obama not even a year into his term. It’s Tim Kaine’s job as Democratic National Committee chairman to put a silver lining in the smoke clouds. I asked Kaine after a…

Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

AFP

Last week, a new version of health-care reform legislation was unveiled in the U.S. House. I was pleased to see major changes in the bill that move us in the right direction. Though I was unsatisfied with the original bill, I’ve been working hard for reforms that I can support, because doing nothing would mean…