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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
Wrong time for talk of raises
Amid the economy’s floundering, several members of the Waynesboro City Council are contemplating economics of a more personal sort.November 21, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 20, 2008
Silence gets no hearing
In the howling din of government bureaucracy churning at full hum, noise ordinances tend to resound as sensibility shrinks quietly into City Hall’s dusky corners.November 19, 2008
A cop reads crime’s signs
The library burns, and to the arsonist the poet turns: “Have you forgotten that your liberator is the book? The book is your wealth! It is knowledge.November 18, 2008
Plans for coal’s end have holes
Coal’s enemies, like Orcs bound for Gondor, are on the march.November 17, 2008
Move trails project now
If scientists – some of them – are to be believed, it took man 3.6 million years to advance from hirsute primate crawling about on hands and feet to walking sans the hands.Money U.
Rest assured, taxpayers and parents of college-bound kids, your tax dollars likely will not be required to bail out universities generally and their fat-cat CEOs specifically.November 15, 2008
Special group
In this space we seldom shrink from doling out criticism when we consider it due.November 14, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 13, 2008
Season is now for more pain
A slender Santa approaches, and Big Oil producers stand on notice: they’ve been profitable and therefore naughty, and now they must pay.Crisis should spark change
Red ink is trickling on the verge of spilling in gushers from municipal budgets as Gov. Timothy M. Kaine sharpens his scalpel for deeper incisions into a state spending plan starved for revenue.November 11, 2008
Kaine missed era’s passing
On the occasion of Barack Obama’s historic ascension to the presidency, fueled in small part (as it turned out) by the turn of Virginia’s political hue from red to blue, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine took occasion to hoist a banner of racism already tossed to the trash heap.November 10, 2008
Enough with the bailouts
Here they come, wrists lined by starched white cuffs replete with gleaming links.November 07, 2008
Three Up; Three Down
THIS WEEK’S OPINION MARKETPLACENovember 06, 2008
Help needed for warriors
The logo for the Wounded Warrior Project, a Jacksonville, Fla.-based initiative to heighten awareness about the plight of veterans, is a silhouette of soldiers, one carried on the shoulder of another. It appears on the project’s Web site beneath a slogan and an admonition: “The greatest casualty is being forgotten.” The danger of that is real as America’s attention shifts from war in Iraq, where victory is at hand, to the economy, where battles are being lost.November 05, 2008
Time for us all to return home
Americans awakened Wednesday – some still under euphoria’s sway, others in gloomy resignation – to the end of almost two years of running, culminating in a single burst of emotion and expression.EDITORIAL: Fate smiles on Obama
So ends a campaign that feels as though it began before the candidates were born, well, at least one of them.November 03, 2008
At last, polls that matter
An election is under way, which means initially and perhaps principally that Americans’ necks have been freed from the iron grip of the polls.November 01, 2008
An industry battles itself
Cries of bias long have rung in the ears of those who make their living in the business of news.October 30, 2008
Give legacy closer look
History, mobile and under revision, is scheduled today to roll into the River City.October 29, 2008
Change looses era of extremes
Support of abortion is the vow Democrats keep when forsaking all others. For the opposition party, the issue is a charm carried in a pocket, an assurance grasped when needed but otherwise forgotten.October 27, 2008
