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January 03, 2009
Success in Iraq
Still are the voices that once rang in cacophonous accord over America’s bloody foray in Iraq.January 02, 2009
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEDecember 31, 2008
Rays of hope for 2009
A new year dawns in shadows.December 30, 2008
Bravo, Invista
Hats off to Invista for signing off on the easement for the city’s Greenway project.Free Choice Act not needed
Among other things expected to occupy Congress and Barack Obama next year will be legislation known as the Employee Free Choice Act, a name that strikes some, including Del. Chris Saxman, R-Staunton, as oxymoronic.December 29, 2008
Israel needs US backing
Presumably, Barack Obama would have preferred socks or a tie he could toss into a drawer and forget.December 26, 2008
Faith, reason take holiday
Men wearing wigs say strange things, and so one said this: “[L]et us with caution indulge the supposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. ... Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.”This week’s opinion marketplace 12/27
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEDecember 24, 2008
Day Before Christmas
A local twist on a popular holiday poem.December 22, 2008
Cut garbage, get to work
Feeling a tightening budget’s stabs, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine sloshes ax in hands into the rising red tides.December 17, 2008
Racing from ’29 shadows
Shielded in the embrace of the Blue Ridge, Waynesboro has felt only the brush of cool economic breezes while elsewhere the winds of Depression, industrial collapse, housing downturns and recession have howled.December 15, 2008
Obama needs a next step
A recession rears and, with it, a homelier head, that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a man of ill repute and wild hair. He is remembered for an image of him – looking like he’d awakened from a three-day bender – published from his capture in 2003.December 13, 2008
Opportunity awaits city
As nylon production lines at Invista go idle, the ground moves beneath Waynesboro city leaders’ feet, which move but a little.December 12, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEDecember 11, 2008
Mayor needs now to lead
Having served for almost six months as Waynesboro mayor, a distinction most parts ceremonial, Tim Williams has distinguished himself in ways that his friends wish he had not.December 10, 2008
Layoffs deal city a blow
Other shoes fell to the floor with disheartening thuds Wednesday morning as workers at the plant that has been Waynesboro’s lifeblood for almost 80 years learned that part of the facility will be idled and 210 workers laid off.December 09, 2008
More stains for Chicago
Corruption throbs in the veins of Chicago in the steady rhythm of a heartbeat.December 08, 2008
Beware China’s Africa invasion
As America combats a recession’s widening effects, China sinks teeth deeper into the flesh of Africa, a place where hope flickers and horrors persist.December 06, 2008
Days darken in River City
Among companies staggered by a recession’s withering blows is Invista, which operates from a Waynesboro plant that has stood on the shores of the South River since 1929, an earlier bleak year.December 05, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACEDecember 04, 2008
Seek reform, brace for cuts
As money drains from the state funding trough, the feeders jostle.December 03, 2008
Louie still lights way
A symbol of a community and a generation drifted quietly from this world five days ago, but his 87 years here linger, a reflection of the economic vigor that once drove Waynesboro and the character that once embodied America.December 02, 2008
Guru casts an illusion
Removed from the broken houses of Fallujah and other realities, Deepak Chopra, the New Age healer, has transported himself back into public view, the aroma of his faux wisdom puncturing and fouling the electronic air.December 01, 2008
Fissures form in council bloc
Conservatism everywhere has been bloodied, at the hands of a president who wore the label but lacked its spirit and lawmakers complicit in his ideological wanderings, proving a truth that blows aimed at one’s own chin are bound eventually to land, crushingly.November 29, 2008
India offers sad lessons
A country whose attention has been devoted to an economy in the throes of recession received a jolting reminder on Thanksgiving eve of terrorism’s abiding threat.November 28, 2008
Three Up; three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 26, 2008
Government cooks turkeys
As the economy heaves, causes to give thanks persist, including a fact Americans can be forgiven for neglecting but one that evinces itself as crucial in the current hour: This is not Iceland.November 24, 2008
Old weapons for new wars
As the bear roars and the economy reels, white horses gallop with politicians astride and taxpayers in tow.Old weapons for new wars
As the bear roars and the economy reels, white horses gallop with politicians astride and taxpayers in tow.November 22, 2008
