Bernie Sanders: A liberal version of Donald Trump?
February 23, 2020
Another burn-it-down candidate is topping a splintered field of more moderate contenders and setting the party’s establishment wing on edge.
Democrats win control of Virginia government
November 6, 2019
Says a former governor: The GOP is “not only losing Virginia, they’re losing America.”
What defines one as ‘an American’
August 3, 2019
As a newspaperman, I view most attempts to “redefine America” through skeptical eyes. Every such attempt appears to be based on hidden agendas driven by a lust for power. As a mostly-white American with some Native American mixed into the DNA, I see myself as a product of mixed environments: Born in Tampa, Fla.,I spent
The end was near…and it came
June 21, 2019
A good friend left the GOP because he felt the party had become too extreme with right-wing ideology and too subservient to Donald Trump.
More blackface revelations, sexual assault details rock Richmond
February 6, 2019
Double whammy on the Richmond scandal carnival Wednesday. Virginia’s Democratic Attorney General, Mark Herring, admitted he dress up in blackface in college to sing a rap song with his buddies and the woman who says Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her went public in graphic detail about a blow job that she says he
Is the end near for Ralph Northam’s governorship?
February 4, 2019
Most of those who monitor the state government happenings in Richmond and around the Old Dominion bet Gov. Ralph Northam will step down today, giving in to the multitude of calls for his resignation in the aftermath of his decision to cover his face with dark shoe polish in 1984 to participate in a Halloween
Past is present & sins don’t fade away
February 3, 2019
Embattled Virginia governor Ralph Northam’s last chance of surviving his use of blackface for entertainment in 1984 collapsed Saturday evening when Virginia’s two Democratic Senators told him to resign. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine each called Northam after he claimed a damning yearbook photo from his medical school years wasn’t of him. In the same
Racism controversy swamps Gov. Northam
February 2, 2019
Lots of valid questions need answers on why Democratic Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam may or my not appeared in blackface or in a Ku Klu Klan robe in 1984, smiling and holding a beer. “There are more old drunks than old doctors in this world so I think I’ll have another beer,” reads the caption
Generating hate and violence
August 14, 2017
On Saturday of this past weekend, music fans braved threats and realities of rain to hear the best of old-time and bluegrass tunes as the Old Times Fiddler’s Convention wrapped up a little over 40 miles from Floyd. About 160 miles from Floyd, three people died during a violent demonstration of hate and racism in
A good time on Little River
May 8, 2016
The kids came Saturday to Little River along Thunderstruck Saturday for the 9th Annual Kids Fishing Day, sponsored by The Floyd County Sheriff’s Department and the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. The trophy for the largest fish went for the catch of a 3.8 pounder but that one was not the only three-plus
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