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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LET THE SIDESHOW BEGIN: The Robertson Crusade commences And that’s what we have to call it here, folks. Because this isn’t about the Code of Virginia, as Ray Robertson told me in his law office several months ago, thumping the book as if it were the Bible. This is a…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You listen to Republicans, and you’d think that the only thing we need to do to address our current fuel and energy crisis is drill, drill, drill and drill some more – even if the Department of Energy, the Bush administration’s Department of Energy, that is, has done…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: What are the major environmental issues that our next president, be it Obama or McCain, will have to confront? – Melinda Barnes, via e-mail Global warming is unquestionably the most pressing environmental issue facing whoever ends up in the White House in January 2009….
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: The eaglet we’re reading so much about I tell you, I’m glad to hear about the now-famous eaglet is recovering from the surgery at the Wildlife Center and all. But seriously … Are we that hard-up for anything substantive in the news business that we have to write about…
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The Summer 2008 edition of The New Dominion Magazine is out today. The stories featured in the magazine include: – A religious Revolution: Waynesboro church turns tradition on its head – 2025 Vision: What does Greater Augusta look like in the future? – Vineyards in the Valley: Wine industry gaining foothold in Augusta, Rockingham –…
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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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Op-Ed by Edward R. Long On May 6, Democrat Sen. Harry Reid accused big oil companies of shutting down refineries temporarily to raise gasoline prices and rake in”obscene profits.” Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., stated that it would take too long to bring new sources online and that there would never be drilling for oil in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The State Corporation Commission has spoken on the proposed Highland New Wind case. A state legislator would like the SCC to keep its nose out of these types of cases in the future. “What this has the effect of doing is eliminating their review of projects such as the one…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] It’s a slap in the face, the way CBS broadcasts these images into our homes. Less than 24 hours after a foot of snow fell here in the East, we are taunted by the footage from the Monterey Peninsula where the Tour players and a bunch…
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