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May 12, 2008
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 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.May 09, 2008
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
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
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.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
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
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
Letters to the Editor
Chris Graham is a man for the people; Waynesboro Orchestra deserves an applauseA mental health reform paradox
In an era when convenience is everything and pain is passe, tragedy of magnitude is the accelerator for government’s perpetually revving engine of reform.April 27, 2008
Graham has vision for city
Strange must be the forces that compel one to exchange an online reporter’s hat for that of local politician, but Chris Graham has shown dexterity in making the transition.April 26, 2008
Lucente a needed voice of restraint
A man who smiles easily and speaks softly, Frank Lucente is regarded by his enemies as the big stick who has carried the city’s divided council into the mud.April 24, 2008
City needs voter turnout at polls
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:April 23, 2008
Obama’s image under question
Coinciding with Democratic presidential aspirant Barack Obama’s rapid descent from the realm of messiah is the demise of the phenomenon of swooning women at campaign rallies. Bodies no longer tumble to the floor, but poll numbers are headed toward that destination, an occurrence of little consolation to the fresh-faced senator from Illinois. This is clearly not the change for which he had hoped.April 22, 2008
Forum aims for answers to issues
Anticipating an election that will vigorously stir their dysfunctional dynamics, members of the City Council have drifted into a state in which confusion is everything.April 19, 2008
Farm bill money in wrong pockets
Having endured the withering recognition that U.S. farm aid is a boondoggle of biblical proportions, federal lawmakers have responded in the fashion of Rehoboam, increasing the empire’s burden on the backs of the people.April 18, 2008
Waynesboro has a natural legacy
Never mind the persistent appearance of frost on windshields and lawns each morning, the sweet season known as spring is upon us, and the evidence today is in the water and in the spirited running of the troutApril 17, 2008
Catholic schools being left behind
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:April 15, 2008
Global warming or global icing
Impressively reducing the likelihood of inaccuracy in their prognostications, scientists as a collective have amended previous hysteria to declare with reasonable certainty that either the Earth will warm or it will cool. So is proved the verity of a cliche, slightly amended: The more scientists change, the more they stay the same.April 13, 2008
GOP drifting from its base
Possessed of the unaffected amiability of a man who has lived all of his 59 years in the shadows of the Blue Ridge, Sen. Emmett Hanger wears a country politician's easy smile as he muses over the turn of some corners of his political world against him.April 11, 2008
Rift makes party look bad
As lapses of lucidity go, the one on display Thursday night in the Augusta County Government Center was substantially more intriguing than most. Undaunted by democratic spirit in the lower-case sense and the sentiments of 141 party souls who voted against him, county Republican Committee Chairman Kurt Michael appeared to play with stunning clarity the part of vanquished lover stubbornly refusing to accept his beau's desire to part ways.April 10, 2008
City’s future looks bright
A thumbs-up, thumbs-down assessment of newsmakers here and beyond:April 09, 2008
Hope for more water research
Those sporting souls venturing into the South River next weekend for the city's annual fly fishing tournament will not be alone in the cool, murky water, and that has nothing whatever to do with trout. Swimming in the signature waterway that flows - or maybe trudges would be the more apropos term - along Waynesboro's eastern border are masses of bacteria, including the ever popular and resilient E. coli.April 08, 2008
Putin’s words lost on Bush
Huddled with reporters aboard Air Force One after having taken another lump in seven years layered with them, President Bush sought by sleight of speech to turn reality on its head, an awkward enterprise under any circumstances, but one particularly so for the man they call Dubya, given his linguistic encumberances and flawed record in attempting the same on the subject of Iraq.April 06, 2008
Fees, credits the right tack for stormwater management
With the election now in plain view and the chasm between them still widening, the City Council's feuding factions are preparing to begin work on next fiscal year's budget amid acutely challenging economic circumstances. Among the primary considerations are what to do about stormwater and whether to cut spending or increase taxes to balance the budget.April 05, 2008
