Today the Roanoke Times reports that Councilman David Trinkle is seeking re-election. While this is not news it does officially kick-off campaign season. I will save my commentary till all the candidates are in the field. The Fifth District Republican Committee has chosen a primary as the method of selecting their nominee against Rep. Tom Perriello, Janelle Rucker writes in the Roanoke Times. It was a 19-13 vote. That’s a significant blow for the backers of basically all of the candidates but Sen. Robert Hurt [...]
The Roanoke Times editorialized today in favor of the Know Campaign’s guilt-based GOTV campaign, and I couldn’t agree more. That was the conservative group who was looking to send out mailers telling people which of their neighbors have voted in recent elections. The SBE was upset, as were many [...]
As a follow-up to Friday’s column, take a gander at this Sunday story in the Roanoke Times:
“We really need to know now ... that the Surfaces property will be available when we need to start road construction,“ Mills wrote in an [...]
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Roanoke Times, 12-1-09, Pg 3: No Hurricane hits US
Fine print Pg 3 weather article, no hurricanes hit US mainland in 2009.
No mention of Global Warming in this article!
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The Roanoke Times agrees that the eminent-domain case involving Carilion, Virginia Tech, and the city teaming up to seize a couple’s land by force is riddled with problems:
The facts as presented in Broadhurst’s ruling call into question the legitimacy of the process that led to this [...]
