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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should stormwater improvements be a higher priority in Waynesboro? Waynesboro was looking at spending $1.2 million this year to get its long-awaited and long-debated stormwater-improvement project up and running, but that was before the new vice mayor, Frank Lucente, switched positions on the source of funding for…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: How is it that hydrogen can replace oil to run our cars? There seems to be a lot of controversy over whether hydrogen can really be generated and stored in such a way to be practical? – Stephane Kuziora, Thunder Bay, Ontario The jury…
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Letter from Janice Lee Allen During one of my home visits while campaigning for U.S. Congress, I knocked on a door, and a mother answered. She invited me in and asked me to walk over and meet her son. She said: “This is my son, and he is dying from leukemia.” The young boy, I…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that politics is a dirty, dirty, dirty pursuit. I just ran a local city-council campaign, so I’m not speaking about this from an academic or philosophical perspective, but from personal experience. I’m saying that now so you can understand where I’m coming from regarding the issue being…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Frank Lucente flip-flop on stormwater, explained Nice story in today’s NV that in part allows Frank Lucente to explain his flip-flop on funding for stormwater. “I think we can do the whole thing with what we’ve got,” Lucente told The News Virginian. He told me a different story…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: What creature comforts could you do without for a year? OK, so I’m a wimp. I can’t imagine life without air conditioning and cable TV and the Internet. And I’m saying this, and I lived the first two years of my life in a house with…
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Raise your hands if you know Yemen sold 13,000 barrels of crude oil and products each and every day during 2007 to the United States. OK, just raise your hands if you heard of Yemen in the first place. Yemen? Yes, Yemen. “Oh, good one! And ‘Yemen,’ that actually sounds…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” reported this week on the John McCain campaign’s ties to lobbyists who were leading players in the fight to preserve the so-called “Enron loophole” that some analysts are blaming for the artificial jump in crude-oil prices that are killing us all at the gas pump. In…
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Op-Ed by Joe Russo According to the Pew Research Center, the State of Virginia is expected to suffer a rather hard blow of foreclosure activity. One in 33 houses in Virginia will suffer foreclosure activity by 2010. Although only 23 percent of all the loans made were “sub-prime”, the foreclosure problem is expected to affect…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: Is it true that the DEET used in most mosquito repellents is toxic? If so, what problems does it cause? And what are some non-toxic alternatives for keeping mosquitoes at bay? – Tom Pollack, Oakland, Calif.
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