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Better machines, better elections
Some Montgomery County voters will go back to the future when they cast ballots in the June 11 Democratic Party primary. Voters ...
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State still cuts Montgomery schools short
by Michael Sluss Wendell Jones had something to get off his chest Tuesday night before the Montgomery County School Board ...
State leaders have a duty to Virginia Tech
Give Gov. Bob McDonnell credit for making higher education funding a priority in his administration and following through on his ...
Will incumbents get a pass?
by Michael Sluss Little went right for Virginia Democrats in the 2011 General Assembly elections. The party lost control of the ...
Tax increase was the wrong budget solution
by Chris Tuck Another year, another tax increase in Montgomery County. Last week, four of my fellow supervisors decided to raise ...
Keeping community colleges safe
A town police officer and a college security guard patrolled the New River Community College’s Christiansburg satellite facility ...
A return to familiar territory
By Michael Sluss While driving from Roanoke to Christiansburg Monday evening, mindful that I had this column to write, I rattled ...
Montgomery schools can do more with less
by Barbara Skinner and Bill Stephenson Skinner is the mother of a Montgomery County Public School student. Stephenson is emeritus ...
The park and ride must go
by Sherri Blevins Blevins is a small business owner. Her children attend Montgomery County Schools. I am writing in hopes of promoting ...
The Burgs letters
Kudos to a Blacksburg town engineer in today’s ...
Appreciation due to town volunteers
Blacksburg emergency volunteers plan to head out into the neighborhood surrounding the planned site for a new rescue squad station ...
Judge Midtown Village for yourself
Jim Politis For nearly a decade, the old Blacksburg Middle School stood as a vacant, decaying and unwelcoming eyesore at the southern ...
New doubts darken Midtown Village
Last week, plans for the old Blacksburg Middle School property were supposed to crystallize into a coherent, detailed proposal ...
The sky won’t fall in Montgomery County
After Salem and Roanoke County passed ordinances last year allowing chickens in residential neighborhoods, there were no headlines ...
BMS in black and white
On Monday, developers are expected to release their latest proposal for the former Blacksburg Middle School property, premium ...
A vision for Christiansburg parks
Christiansburg residents eager to stretch their legs in the great outdoors have found the town lacking in adequate recreation ...
Letters to the editor
Old Prices Fork Elementary School and middle school teachers in today’s ...
Farewell
Speaking of open government, if you took advantage of your right to attend ...
Virginia Tech’s sunshine specialists
Sunshine Week, the annual celebration of open government, starts today. In past years, I have marked this occasion with investigations ...
