A creative way to fuel a local economy
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If you know me at all, you know that I’m a sucker for a good idea. The Staunton Creative Community Fund is a good idea.
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Support the troops!
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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more “The GI Bill gives emphatic notice to the men and women in our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on signing the original G.I Bill for returning veterans The Iraq and Afghanistan…
Perriello raises questions about Goode’s vote against GI Bill
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] How could you vote against the new GI Bill that will provide expanded educational benefits to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? It’s a rhetorical question that Fifth District Democratic Party nominee Tom Perriello is asking about Republican incumbent Virgil Goode’s vote against the bill.
Coming home when it’s over, over there
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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more There have been over 60,000 official U.S. casualties, and about 4,000 U.S. dead in Iraq. So far. (That doesn’t count, for some reason, the “private contractors.”) There is no rural community, no urban or suburban neighborhood, without families that have suffered devastating combat…
Oil, food and agrotherapy
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Op-Ed by Shepherd Bliss Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more Petroleum supplies slowly dwindle as demand rapidly soars. So the prices of gasoline and oil that supply modern societies with their industrial production of food will go up, up and away. A radically different future than the oil-energized 20th century is dawning. Let’s face…
Winners and Losers: Lucente, Goodlatte, Virginia GOP, Sixth District Dems
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Frank Lucente gets his majority Give the old codger credit. A lot had to work just right for him to do it, but he did it. Now comes the hard part. He proved himself adept at being in the minority. But how will he do running the show when…
Webb Post-9/11 G.I. Bill passes House
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Webb’s Post-9/11 G.I. Bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, moving the nation a giant step closer to doing the same thing for recent military veterans that we did for the heroes of World War II. “(Thursday’s) House vote places veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars one…
Webb joins call to USPS to reissue stamp
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A bipartisan group of United States senators including Virginia Democratic Sen. Jim Webb is calling on the United States Postal Service to issue the Purple Heart stamp on a permanent basis. “This is a most appropriate way to honor past and future recipients of our nation’s oldest military decoration,” said…
‘Can she stay one more day?’
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Column by Philip Day Those words reverberated through her adolescent ears long ago, and she still hears them today, more than 25 years later. It wasn’t the question, however, that changed her life. It was the response. “No, I don’t want her to stay. She’s a ‘Washington’”. It was a response that sent her through…
Working to make health care more accessible and affordable
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Currently, more than 47 million Americans are without health insurance, and millions more are underinsured. These statistics are simply unacceptable. It is time for real health-care reform which focuses on strategies that help Americans obtain the best-quality health care at the least cost.
