The registrar has a secret lair
Montgomery County Registrar Randy Wertz has a secret lair somewhere in the New River Valley. Between elections, he stores his voting machines in an undisclosed location to help ensure no one tampers with them.
A couple of weeks ago, he let me visit.
The registrar has a secret lair
Montgomery County Registrar Randy Wertz has a secret lair somewhere in the New River Valley. Between elections, he stores his voting machines in an undisclosed location to help ensure no one tampers with them.
A couple of weeks ago, he let me visit.
The registrar has a secret lair
Montgomery County Registrar Randy Wertz has a secret lair somewhere in the New River Valley. Between elections, he stores his voting machines in an undisclosed location to help ensure no one tampers with them.
A couple of weeks ago, he let me visit.
Faith, religion and human intellect
Richard A. Carr Sr.
Carr is an ordained Baptist minister and teaches at Virginia Western Community College and Hollins University.
I was saddened as I read Jerome Schleifer's commentary "Free of faith's false promise" (Aug. 29). It is obvious that Schleifer is a much troubled individual. The search for faith and God has troubled many of us for years. We have only to read the accounts of Mother Teresa to understand that even the most devout Christians struggle with these concepts. Read here.
Story took a callous view of 911 abuse
Katie Wright
Wright is a social worker who lives in Roanoke.
I am infuriated to read the Sept. 24 story "Frivolous 911 calls: Abusing the system." This article was written so callously that I am ashamed that it came from my hometown paper. Read here.
Sunday's letters are here.
Faith, religion and human intellect
Richard A. Carr Sr.
Carr is an ordained Baptist minister and teaches at Virginia Western Community College and Hollins University.
I was saddened as I read Jerome Schleifer's commentary "Free of faith's false promise" (Aug. 29). It is obvious that Schleifer is a much troubled individual. The search for faith and God has troubled many of us for years. We have only to read the accounts of Mother Teresa to understand that even the most devout Christians struggle with these concepts. Read here.
Story took a callous view of 911 abuse
Katie Wright
Wright is a social worker who lives in Roanoke.
I am infuriated to read the Sept. 24 story "Frivolous 911 calls: Abusing the system." This article was written so callously that I am ashamed that it came from my hometown paper. Read here.
Sunday's letters are here.
Faith, religion and human intellect
Richard A. Carr Sr.
Carr is an ordained Baptist minister and teaches at Virginia Western Community College and Hollins University.
I was saddened as I read Jerome Schleifer's commentary "Free of faith's false promise" (Aug. 29). It is obvious that Schleifer is a much troubled individual. The search for faith and God has troubled many of us for years. We have only to read the accounts of Mother Teresa to understand that even the most devout Christians struggle with these concepts. Read here.
Story took a callous view of 911 abuse
Katie Wright
Wright is a social worker who lives in Roanoke.
I am infuriated to read the Sept. 24 story "Frivolous 911 calls: Abusing the system." This article was written so callously that I am ashamed that it came from my hometown paper. Read here.
Sunday's letters are here.
Virginia's illegal immigrant blues
The Old Dominion should take care that Congress' failure to reform immigration laws doesn't produce bad state policy, too.
Gov. Tim Kaine railed last week that there is "real bankruptcy at the federal level" on immigration policy, and he's right. Read here.
Tax penalties have lost their bite
Thanks to inflation, fines against tax cheats provide little disincentive these days.
Few people enjoy paying taxes, but they do it. Some pay their taxes because they recognize that it is for the national good. Others pay because the law requires it. Then there are the people who don't pay or willfully break the law to avoid paying everything they owe. Read here.
Blacksburg goes its own way
Other localities should follow the town's lead on road construction.
Blacksburg seceded from the Virginia Department of Transportation last week. Other localities should do the same. Read here.
Talking point
"The defense authorization is about dealing with the challenges of terrorism overseas. ... This [bill] is about terrorism in our neighborhood."
--Sen. Edward Kennedy, explaining how the Senate, on a voice vote last week, could attach hate-crimes legislation to help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals to a bill funding the war in Iraq.
Virginia's illegal immigrant blues
The Old Dominion should take care that Congress' failure to reform immigration laws doesn't produce bad state policy, too.
Gov. Tim Kaine railed last week that there is "real bankruptcy at the federal level" on immigration policy, and he's right. Read here.
Tax penalties have lost their bite
Thanks to inflation, fines against tax cheats provide little disincentive these days.
Few people enjoy paying taxes, but they do it. Some pay their taxes because they recognize that it is for the national good. Others pay because the law requires it. Then there are the people who don't pay or willfully break the law to avoid paying everything they owe. Read here.
Blacksburg goes its own way
Other localities should follow the town's lead on road construction.
Blacksburg seceded from the Virginia Department of Transportation last week. Other localities should do the same. Read here.
Talking point
"The defense authorization is about dealing with the challenges of terrorism overseas. ... This [bill] is about terrorism in our neighborhood."
--Sen. Edward Kennedy, explaining how the Senate, on a voice vote last week, could attach hate-crimes legislation to help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals to a bill funding the war in Iraq.
Virginia's illegal immigrant blues
The Old Dominion should take care that Congress' failure to reform immigration laws doesn't produce bad state policy, too.
Gov. Tim Kaine railed last week that there is "real bankruptcy at the federal level" on immigration policy, and he's right. Read here.
Tax penalties have lost their bite
Thanks to inflation, fines against tax cheats provide little disincentive these days.
Few people enjoy paying taxes, but they do it. Some pay their taxes because they recognize that it is for the national good. Others pay because the law requires it. Then there are the people who don't pay or willfully break the law to avoid paying everything they owe. Read here.
Blacksburg goes its own way
Other localities should follow the town's lead on road construction.
Blacksburg seceded from the Virginia Department of Transportation last week. Other localities should do the same. Read here.
Talking point
"The defense authorization is about dealing with the challenges of terrorism overseas. ... This [bill] is about terrorism in our neighborhood."
--Sen. Edward Kennedy, explaining how the Senate, on a voice vote last week, could attach hate-crimes legislation to help states prosecute attacks on homosexuals to a bill funding the war in Iraq.
Iran matters. (Or is it manners?)
John Freivalds
Freivalds runs an international communication firm in Lexington. He previously worked in Iran and Afghanistan and speaks Farsi.
The worst thing you can say to someone in Farsi, the language they speak in Iran, is adap naderi -- you have no manners. So the rude manners shown in the reception that Iran's President Ahmadinejad got at Columbia University reinforced all the stereotypes that people in Iran if not the Middle East, had about the U.S. Read here.
Saturday's letters are here.
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