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May 12, 2008
Waynesboro Farmer’s Market trip worthwhile
Now that the election is over, treat yourself to a trip to the Wednesday Farmer’s Market from 3-7 p.m.Change ahead for City Council
First off, I would like to congratulate Frank Lucente, Bruce Allen and Tim Williams on their wins in the City Council elections (“Allen keys change,” May 7).Education law toes the line
When the law, families and education intersect, as they do in America with increased frequency, ugly collisions are inevitable.May 11, 2008
Hillary and the golden handshake
What will it take to get Hillary Clinton to quit?May 10, 2008
Borrowers beware
Beware government’s helping hand, poised to plunge into the mortgage crisis and sweep to the floor a wounded market rising, feebly but resolutely, to recover.Guns should be allowed in parks
Regarding the question about whether to allow people to carry concealed weapons in national parks (“Parks want opinions on new gun law,” May 8):Businesses win in elections
The save Invista campaign was successful with winning council candidates Bruce Allen, Frank Lucente and Tim Williams supporting a financial break for businesses by paying stormwater services costs from the general fund.May 09, 2008
Not everyone agrees with their minister
The reasoning goes like this: Barack Obama joined a church whose minister, for a while, was Jeremiah Wright. Therefore Barack Obama agrees with Wright’s political and theological points of view. Huh?Obama could still stumble
Spectral figures and troubling alliances form the silhouettes behind the gleaming light of Barack Obama’s resurgence from the political darkness.May 08, 2008
Wayne Theatre would be huge asset to downtown
Letter to the editor: To all the naysayers: think about what would replace the Wayne Theatre if it were torn down, at a cost of $300,000 or more.Future of council still unpredictable
Letters to the editor The following are my observations of the May 6 election:Time to wake up and smell the recession
The story about rising food prices, entitled “Food Crisis,” on the May 2 front page of The News Virginian was ironic, considering the headline on Page A5 in the same edition. It read: “Bush urges $770M in food aid.”Hoping locals can get it right
Banished to the ideological wilderness, conservatives want to know who sent them and why.Track and field forever changed
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:May 06, 2008
Waynesboro High School was blessed
While starting my daily routine of reading the morning newspaper I was overwhelmed with emotion to learn that a true Waynesboro High School legacy’s career was coming to a close (“End of an era,” May 6).Power change sweeps council
The product of an intense campaign that culminated with Tuesday’s election is a shift in power on the Waynesboro City Council. One thing has not changed: Factions and the dread terms, majority and minority, remain entrenched in City Hall lingo.May 05, 2008
City elections vital for future
Straining like the Israelites under the Pharaoh’s burdens, colonial America turned on the Empire and cast it into the Atlantic.Politics illustrating a devaluation of voters
We are approaching and witnessing a uniquely tenuous time in politics and current situations promise to change how many citizens view their votes in the future.Citizens need to take responsibility
The Constitution is ordained and established for the purpose of accomplishing six main objectives; one of those is to promote the general welfare.May 04, 2008
Cue the pander bear
A year ago last March, the Republican National Committee had fun sending someone in a “pander bear” suit to crash a Hillary Clinton fundraiser at a Washington hotel.May 03, 2008
Most theater funding coming from community
Questions continue to be raised locally about the Wayne Theatre project.Politicians face tough choices
Beyond the swell of prices at local gas pumps surges untapped sanity and increased independence in the form of domestic crude.May 02, 2008
Food for thought
Americans will eat absolutely anything. In the last two weeks, the truth of this statement has been demonstrated to me.Edwards’ law legacy lasting
The influence of former trial lawyer and twice-failed presidential aspirant John Edwards radiates still like a noxious gas, the fumes extending beyond his native North Carolina, and his home covering 40,000 square feet of that state, to, of all places, Waynesboro.May 01, 2008
GOP infighting is unproductive
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:April 30, 2008
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Bush administration is playing dumb to issue
Taxpayers must raise their voices about what is happening. The current pricing and availability of crude oil is fraudulent and contrived.LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Need for West End fire station seen
In the early morning today, friends of mine lost their home in the West End to a tragic fire. Fortunately, no one was injured, but the property loss was extensive, if not total.America illustrates race still matters
Former president Clinton knows it. His wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., knows it. Illinois Democratic Sen. Barack Obama’s wife, Michelle, knows it. And most blacks know it. In America, race still matters.Kaine readies to hike the gas tax
Those who bleed gushers from open veins are unlikely to object to trickles resulting from the infliction of lesser wounds. Pulsing with such gothic rationale, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and his Democratic abettors approach, eyes aglow. As gas prices surge toward $4 a gallon, Kaine is readying for a vampiric push next month to increase the state gas tax, principally to pay for road improvements in Northern Virginia and Hampton Roads.April 28, 2008
