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September 18, 2009
ACORN Should Face IRS Audit
ACORN is rightly taking its lumps, including the loss of all its federal funding, after staff in four cities was secretly videotaped giving advice to actors posing as a pimp and a prostitute on how to buy a home and start a brothel.
September 17, 2009
Praise, Renewal For Virginia Intermont College
From its humble beginnings in a large home in Glade Spring in 1884, and the construction of its original building in Bristol, completed in 1893, Virginia Intermont College today has grown into an unprecedented educational and economic institution in the city.
September 16, 2009
Festival Driving Cultural, Economic Growth
After almost a decade, Bristol’s Rhythm & Roots Reunion has become a can’t-miss, musical powerhouse event, this year drawing more than 150 bands and individual performers and fans from at least 30 states and five foreign countries.
September 14, 2009
Power Plant Balance Benefits Everyone
A tenacious fight by environmental groups came to a resolution last week, with Dominion Virginia Power forced to amend its air permit for a new power plant. The move allows the plant to move forward but creates some of the toughest environmental standards ever issued.
September 13, 2009
Resolution of Power Plant Issue Is A Balance That Benefits Everyone
A tenacious fight by environmental groups came to a resolution last week, with Dominion Virginia Power forced to amend its air
permit for a new power plant. The move allows the plant to move forward but creates some of the toughest environmental standards ever issued.
September 12, 2009
Right Message, Heritage Festival & Bad Behavior
Reasoned conservatives, right message
Newt Gingrich, Lamar Alexander, Bill Frist and Laura Bush: Those are some of the conservatives who delivered the correct message this week regarding President Barack Obama’s speech to students on Tuesday.
Right Message, Heritage Festival & Bad Behavior
Obama gave a simple message that resonates with anyone willing to listen.
September 11, 2009
Remember, Reflect Through Day Of Service
An obscure September day became the most infamous in American history when terrorists flew airplanes into the World Trade Center towers, and the Pentagon, and crashed into a field in Pennsylvania on Sept. 11, 2001.
September 10, 2009
Furloughs, Cuts Well-Known To Private Sector
Remember when Virginia was known for its top-notch colleges and smooth roadways to reach them?
September 06, 2009
Rx Help To Fill The Gap
We don’t pretend to know what form, if any, health care reform will take, or if substantial changes will happen at all this year.
September 05, 2009
Humor, Hiring Head Hunters & Flood Failures
Gethsemane Baptist Church along Old Airport Road in Bristol, Va. is taking a recent Saturday car accident in stride.
September 04, 2009
Elderly Patients Need Stronger Advocates
Even worse than learning that a former employee from a nursing home in Bristol, Va., was charged with aggravated sexual assault of patients is learning that former coworkers suspected him and filed complaints, yet the man stayed on the job.
September 02, 2009
Abingdon Deserves Design Control For Mega-Development
Six years ago, Abingdon took steps to give the town design control over mega-developments by enacting a provision covering any building larger than 50,000 square feet and located along thoroughfares leading to the historic downtown.
August 30, 2009
Prove It Can Be Done
We have the engineers, the expertise and the desire.
August 29, 2009
High-Speed Rail, Excuses, ID Theft
Thumbs Up - Thumbs Down
August 26, 2009
Dental Problems A Serious Health Issue
Landing on the list of the wealthiest or healthiest would be so much nicer, but our region is not making national news in those areas.
August 23, 2009
Wellness, Health Should Be Focus
Obviously no one wants to be obese or an addict, as Jerry Miller told the crowd gathered Thursday for a health care forum in Abingdon. But obesity and addiction are crippling problems locally and doctors can – and should – do more to help patients improve their lives.
August 22, 2009
Healthy Food, Rate Hikes & Swine Flu
People who receive food assistance checks from Virginia can double their dollars at the Abingdon Farmers’ Market thanks to a $20,000 grant from Wholesome Wave, a private foundation.
August 21, 2009
Hospitals Need Fair Reimbursement To Survive
Area hospital administrators offered some insightful perspectives on health care reform Thursday, during a forum in Abingdon hosted by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher.
August 19, 2009
Listen, Be Heard At Thursday Forum
Don’t be surprised if the health care forum hosted by U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher early Thursday in Abingdon follows a similar pattern already seen across the country – protesters, anger and jeering.
August 16, 2009
How To Stop Wasting Billions Of Health Care Dollars Each Year
The angst and anger at town hall meetings on health care reform make it painfully obvious that many Americans are digging in their heels over fears that their current coverage could change. But here’s something that should scare us all:
How to stop wasting billions each year
Here’s something that should scare us all: Nearly half the money spent on health care today is wasted.
August 15, 2009
More Info, Longer Hours & Lost Jobs
As part of our recent investigation reviewing financial interest disclosure forms required by public officials, we found that a few respondents revealed more than the law requires.
August 13, 2009
Bristol Child Abuse Case Defies Logic
The extreme nature of the child abuse case reported in Bristol, Va., this week – a 6-year-old girl allegedly bound for weeks and frightened with toy snakes and spiders as punishment for taking food – seems to defy logic.
August 12, 2009
Tuesday Ruling Only One Step
Mercury, which is proven to cause birth defects, is a by-product of coal-fired power plants and an obvious concern for anyone living near the power plant, and in the larger region where weather patterns could bring pollution. Releasing excessive amounts of mercury into the air, where it could harm neighbors and their children would be unconscionable.
August 09, 2009
Public Could Provide Extra Enforcement Eyes For Officials’ Financial Disclosure Forms
In a joint four-month investigation with our television partner, News Channel 11 Connects, we’ve chronicled how public officials frequently fail to complete required financial interest disclosure forms, sometimes filing them late, if at all. We’ve also chronicled how some use confusion as a crutch when questioned about the timeliness or accuracy of the information provided. We have some suggestions for improvements.
August 08, 2009
Freedom, Festival, Prison & Rumors
Two American journalists were freed by North Korea this week and came home to their families on a flight with former President Bill Clinton.
August 07, 2009
Tax-Free Weekend Offers Small Boost
The annual back-to-school tax-free holiday begins today, a chance for shoppers to skip the 5 percent sales tax in Virginia and 7 percent sales tax in Tennessee.
August 06, 2009
Citizen Recruits Help Everyone
Granted, no one likes “nosy neighbors,” but involved neighbors who are friendly with the police and know when to speak up are the best deterrent to crime any neighborhood can have.
August 05, 2009
Welcome Home To Vitriol, Chaos At Local Meetings
Returning home for the late-summer break, members of Congress should expect greetings that range from icy to outright hostile.
