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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Two million jobs lost in the past decade. A quarter of a trillion dollar trade deficit just last year. And now we in Waynesboro are supposed to be jumping up and down happy about how Reo Hatfield wants to help China take more of our…
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Op-Ed by Al Weed Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The Senate debate on the Lieberman-Warner bill to reduce carbon emissions was the first serious national recognition of the challenge of climate change. Al Gore’s Nobel Prize notwithstanding, until an effort to change our energy culture through public policy is made, the U.S. is…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Remember the “Saturday Night Live” skits about Al Gore and his Social Security lockbox? Might be time to dust them off. “It is time to put ‘trust’ back in the Transportation Trust Fund,” said House Transportation Committee vice-chair Glenn Oder, R-Newport News, in announcing Monday that he has introduced legislation…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Wondering how all the political talk about next week’s special legislative session on transportation and who will be willing to do what and the rest affects you? Check out the Virginia Department of Transportation website.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] An Augusta County vineyard that will be featured in the Summer 2008 edition of The New Dominion Magazine is now an award-winning Augusta County vineyard. Barren Ridge Vineyards won a gold medal at the recent Virginia State Fair Wine Competition. The gold medal was given to the vineyard’s 2007 Viognier.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I, ahem, invited myself to Lofton Lake this past weekend, and I have to report after traipsing around the premises for a few hours on Saturday that it has been seriously oversold as being a “retreat” featuring cabins owned by “some of the region’s most…
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Op-Ed by Dave Shreve Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The Virginia Organizing Project and its Tax Reform Committee commend Gov. Tim Kaine for his recent efforts to publicize and push for expanded investment in the state’s transportation network. There is little doubt that Virginia faces an ongoing road-maintenance funding deficit, that there is…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should candidates for public office take money from PACs and lobbyists representing special-interest groups? Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has ruffled some feathers with his ban on campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul has done something of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A wide load, indeed. A 28-foot-wide steel structure will be making its way up Interstate 81 from Southwest Virginia on its way to Baltimore this week, making traveling on the I-81 corridor more adventurous than usual.
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Column by Philip Day Chauncey Strong will tell you that he is fortunate, extremely fortunate, to be where he is today. In his position as the director of community services for the Phillips Programs, a nonprofit, private organization (www.phillipsprograms.org) that serves individuals with emotional and behavioral problems located in Annandale, Chauncey is in contact with…
