By Chris Graham/AFP Shirley Howard visits a local food pantry once a month to supplement what her Social Security check can buy her at the grocery store. "I'm basically by myself. This basically helps me get from one paycheck to another. I live on a fixed income. So this really helps out," said Howard, of Staunton, a 67-year-old retiree. The toughest thing about trying to make ends meet ...
By Chris Graham/AFP Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore has made headlines because he has made it known that he is serious about courting African-American voters. But is the Kilgore campaign's voter-outreach effort sincere? "At some level, it is sincere," said Michael Fauntroy, a George Mason University political-science professor whose current research focuses on Republican Party efforts to attract black voters.
By Chris Graham/AFP Virginia is dry, dry, dry. And Virginia farmers are soon going to be paying for the lack of rain. "Because of the acute drought that we have been experiencing, many farmers have been forced to set out hay for their livestock already, and many missed the chance to cut their fields one more time for hay because of the dry conditions ..."
By Chris Graham/AFP It's not the sexiest thing to talk about when you're talking about government and politics. But water and sewer services affect, well, everybody. And in the Greater Augusta County region, as elsewhere, issues involving the delivery of water and sewer services pay little mind to government-boundary lines.
By Chris Graham/AFP Russ Potts has filed suit against the University of Virginia Center for Politics seeking a spot in the televised gubernatorial-candidates debate being sponsored by the center and WWBT-NBC12 in Richmond this weekend. A hearing on Potts' suit has been scheduled for noon today in a federal court in Charlottesville.
It's too bad nobody has come out with a study showing how much of our tax money is wasted by Democrats and Republicans as a result of their incessant political posturing. No, unfortunately the best we can do is say anecdotally that the doofuses waste way, way, way too much of our hard-earned paying Armstrong Williams to tout partisan programs in his columns ...
We don't mind paying the $20 or $25 or whatever the fee is for vehicle decals. OK, so we do. Those who introduced the decals were selling us a bill of goods when they put the proposal out there - and we're still mad as hell about the fast one that they pulled over on us on that.
By Barnie Day One lame-brained idea - no doubt, there will be many - sure to see the light of day during the coming session of the Virginia General Assembly will be a move to put to referendum proposals that would increase state taxes and/or state spending on anything. "Let the people decide!" proponents will shout with huffed-up indignation. The people of Virginia should reject this duck ...
By Steven Sisson There's unraveling campaign news in the Virginia gubernatorial race - with reference to the Russ Potts gutted independent campaign. First off, rumors from up North have surfaced concerning Potts' righthand man, Tom D'Amore, bailing out on a Southern sinking ship. The New Haven Independent is reporting that D'Amore's former boss man, Lowell Weicker, is considering a challenge ...
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