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Column by Dr. Jeffrey Patterson Submit guest columns: [email protected] One crucial lesson from the BP oil spill is that measures to speed licensing, cut corners on safety and undermine regulation can lead to tragic consequences. Yet Congress appears on the verge of repeating mistakes that led to the environmental catastrophe in the Gulf. Federal lawmakers…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] So long for a while. That’s all the songs for a while. So closed the old “Your Hit Parade” radio show every Saturday night. This might also be a good way to say that until its proprietor and the weather cools off, this marketplace of ideas…
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Column by Chris DeWald Submit guest columns: [email protected] It has been a while since I have written or submitted a post. I shall touch on a serious matter that might affect us all and more with those with light skin. In the past, I have had skin cancerous cells removed, and just had a…
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Column by Jenny Hypes [email protected] In early elementary school, I was dead set on becoming a doctor, until I found out math and science were priorities. After giving up on my lifelong dream, I decided being a Spice Girl was the next best thing. Although they were not particularly good singers, they had great…
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Millions of gallons of water are used to literally fracture the earth to get at the natural gas below. And below is the operative word – hydraulic fracturing, or hydrofracking, as it’s commonly called, aims at natural-gas reserves anywhere from 5,000 to 20,000 feet beneath the earth’s surface. The good news is that natural gas…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] With players reporting to camp in less than five weeks, the Bridgewater Eagles football team is getting geared up for its annual Pigskin Preview event. The ninth annual Pigskin Preview is slated for Saturday, Aug. 21, on the Bridgewater campus. For the past eight years, head football coach Michael…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Verona-based Shenandoah Resource Conservation and Development Council has received a three-year partnership agreement worth $720,000 annually to help farmers with conservation practices. The funds were provided through the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service’s Cooperative Conservation Partnership Initiative. Shenandoah RC&D Chairman John Eckman said funds “present a real opportunity…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “People get ready, there’s a train a’comin’ . . .” – The Impressions (1964) It probably goes without saying, but I’ll say it anyhow – God’s timing and humankind’s timetables are rarely synchronized, or so it seems from an earthly point of view. Recent case in…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Good news for farming, sorta, kinda: The Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services reported today that loss of farmland to development appears to be slowing in the Commonwealth. According to the recent numbers from the Farmland Information Center, between 1997 and 2002, Virginia lost 81,500 acres of agricultural…
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Virginia’s three top state elected leaders are holding to their support for exploratory oil and natural gas drilling off the coast of Virginia in the wake of the ongoing disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. “We will learn from Louisiana. We will have additional federal regulations. We will have new technology. Once we get some…
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