2008.03.31
Discuss Monday's commentary and letters
A not-so-typical Friday
Ray Stubblefield
Stubblefield, who teaches earth science at Franklin County High School, is a Roanoke Times columnist.
It was Good Friday. It was also the first day of spring and the end of the marking period, so teachers had a workday to finalize grades. Nothing unusual about that, but we also had a mock lockdown drill. The scenario was shooters on campus.
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How Wall Street crashed on Main Street
John Freivalds
Freivalds runs an international firm in Lexington and once worked for a Wall Street firm.
Usually we pay little attention to Wall Street and the various indices going up or down, or even what companies' stocks comprise them, but when the crisis affects homeownership and the most sacred cow of all -- home prices should always go up -- everybody notices. We got into this mess by forgetting what history has told us, that we all are affected by greed and we all feel there is such a thing as a free lunch.
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Drivers can prevent work zone deaths
Richard Caywood
Caywood is the district administrator for the Virginia Department of Transportation, Salem District.
It's been just over a month since the tragic loss of Richard Slone, a construction worker who was killed Feb. 20 in a work zone on Virginia 419 in Roanoke County. Like many others who live in the Cave Spring area, I was surprised and saddened by the accident. My home is just a few miles from the accident site. My wife had driven through the work zone only hours before the accident occurred.
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Wanda Martin how frequently did you scrutinize ex-speaker of the house Tom Delay's travels? However, maybe you think since Jack Abramoff covered a lot of his trip expenses it was okay.
Comment by Gary — March 31, 2008 @ 10:55 am