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October 01, 2009
Growing Taste For Technology
Giving teachers an opportunity to fly on a jet that simulates zero gravity also offers that experience vicariously to the students in their classrooms.
September 29, 2009
Support For Orchard Business
Laid off from a job in New Hampshire and excited about developing a new, seasonal business here, Michael Richard may have overlooked or skipped some of the steps with the city.
September 27, 2009
Big Tobacco Atttempts To Evade FDA Rules
FDA regulations are designed to reduce or eliminate dangerous products for our citizens. The tobacco industry sells a product that is inherently dangerous
September 26, 2009
Lotto Win, Sneezing & More Job Losses
It’s a program aimed at bringing in up to $41 million to a state that is strapped for cash.
September 24, 2009
Neighbors, Workers Deserve Resolution On DEQ Complaints
With workers complaining of headaches, nausea and nosebleeds, and neighbors complaining of bad odors, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality must quickly isolate the cause of what is sickening some manufacturing workers in Abingdon.
September 20, 2009
Young Workers, Women Hurt The Most By Fallout From Economic Crisis
A year after Lehman Brothers collapsed and the economic crisis began in earnest, the American economy is still gasping for breath and many Americans are reporting substantial personal stress, ongoing financial problems and skepticism that any proposed reforms will have lasting effects.
September 19, 2009
Judd, Tourism & Report Card Hoax
Country music singer Wynonna Judd will be a special guest on the Santa Train later this year when it delivers gifts to children in Appalachia.
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.
