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Column by Bruce Kesler Read AFP editor Chris Graham’s Counterpoint. My friend, editor Chris Graham, and I disagree on many things, but agree on the importance of speaking our minds and giving others their due listening. However, in 2008, the major media has particularly fallen down on this obligation. There are two major causes: Most…
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Column by Steven Sisson Is the McCain-Palin campaign fueling racism, hatred and divisiveness? Of course, the answers to the question are yes, yes, yes, but wait one cotton-picking minute, Blue Dog! Calling the Republican presidential nominee John McCain The Manchurian Candidate conjures images of a 1960s Vietnam prisoner of war being brainwashed and collaborating with…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The last time Virginia went Democratic for president, gas was 25 cents, The Beatles were about to make their debut on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” Ronald Reagan was still a Democrat, and Brian Moran was 5 years old. “A lot has changed, but this year, Virginia is going to elect…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’ve known Alice Leonhardt for years, but I didn’t know this about her. She wrote, illustrated and self-published her first book at age 7. Which puts me about 25 years behind her, and that’s not accounting for my lack of illustration skills. Starting from a very early age, obviously, then,…
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Staff Report Retired James Madison University Alternative Fuel Vehicle Lab coordinator Randy Poag was recently inducted into the Nashville Auto Diesel College Hall of Fame for his contributions to JMU’s pioneering work in biodiesel and alternative fuels. “Randy’s guidance in the AFV lab was integral to the success of many projects,” said Christie-Joy Brodrick Hartman,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Seth Lovell and his twin brother, Eli, thought they had a creative way to pay for college. They signed up for the Virginia National Guard as high-school seniors, the idea being that the tuition assistance would take a load off their mother, who had just been diagnosed with cancer. A…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro City Council has agreed in principle on an employment agreement that will pay new city manager Mike Hamp a $115,000 base salary and provide him with a three-month severance. That salary and benefits package trails slightly that which had been given to Hamp’s predecessor in the city manager’s office,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Democrats have been asking questions about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s readiness to serve as vice president since her name was called by John McCain last month. Now some Republicans in the walkup to Thursday’s vice-presidential debate are asking similar questions, and providing a surprising answer. “Palin’s recent interviews with Charles…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Many Charles Dickens fans just assume that it was supposed to be John Jasper who would turn out to be the murderer at the end of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Everything seems to point back to Jasper, most notably his affections for Rosa Bud, Drood’s fiancee, though a small…
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Op-ed by Nina May www.ninamay.com In 1984, after founding the Renaissance Women, to counter the radical feminists who were claiming to speak for all women, we were on the national radar. As a very young, conservative, I was pitted against a veteran feminist, Gloria Steinem, on the “Phil Donahue” show. The issue was whether women…
