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Contest! When will we see Obama in Roanoke?
Roanoke Times Blue Ridge Caucus
Feb 07The contests keep coming! On Monday, we kicked off a contest to predict when we’ll see Mitt Romney in Roanoke (if at all) this election year. Today, we kick off the same thing for President Obama. Will we see him in Roanoke this year? This works the sa... »
Contest! When will we see Romney in Roanoke?
Roanoke Times Blue Ridge Caucus
Feb 06It’s time for another contest. Will we see Mitt Romney in Roanoke this year? Enter your prediction on the date he’ll appear — or maybe you want to predict he won’t appear here at all — and whoever comes closest wins a book from our Blue Ridge Caucus bo... »
Contest! When will we see Ron Paul in Roanoke?
Roanoke Times Blue Ridge Caucus
Feb 06Today’s a big contest kick-off day here at the Blue Ridge Caucus. The Virginia Republican primary is coming up March 6 which naturally makes us wonder: Will we see either of the candidates in Roanoke? And by either, well, there are only two on the ball... »
Supreme Court ruling has implications for Lynchburg-area GPS case
The Lynchburg News & Advance
Feb 05In an eight-page handwritten letter from jail, inmate Keith Hill asks, “Have you looked under your car lately?” The authorities these days don’t have trouble keeping track of Hill, who has made the Rustburg jail his home since September 2010. He’s hop... »
A new class of security at Lynchburg's middle schools
The Lynchburg News & Advance
Feb 05The three security administrative assistants that have replaced resource officers in Lynchburg's middle schools this school year embody a different breed of security. They don’t carry weapons and can’t make arrests. On the other hand, they are filling ... »
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Michael Mann continues to embarrass himself
The RightWing Liberal
Feb 06Michael Mann – chief global-warming alarmist for Penn State – can never, ever disgrace his institution as much as Jerry Sandusky has. But it’s not for lack of trying. Mann first embarrasses himself with a petulant tweet about “journalistic malpractice.... »
Redistricting: Where We've Been, Where We Are, and Where We're Going
Blue Virginia
Jan 26Lowell already brought to our attention the good news that the courts handed the Republicans a defeat in the first round of what may prove to be a long legal fight over redistricting in Virginia. I am no legal scholar, but I was excited by the news tha... »
Bedford County Sheriff: Jens Soering Anniversary Reminds us of the Real Tim Kaine
Bearing Drift
Jan 24On the widely ignored two-year anniversary of Tim Kaine's attempt to transfer a convicted murderer to Germany, Bedford County Sheriff Mike Brown argues that that one action alone is enough to disqualify Kaine from representing Virginians. »
Bedford Co. Sheriff: Soering Decision Disqualifies Kaine for U.S. Senate
Virginia Virtucon
Jan 22Michael J. Brown, Sheriff of Bedford County, Virginia, has a very hard-hitting op-ed in today’s Lynchburg News and Advance that excoriates fmr. Gov. Tim Kaine and raises very legitimate questions about his qualifications to serve the people of Virginia... »
Tim Kaine's Achilles Heel
Mason Conservative
Jan 22Bedford County Sheriff Michael Brown has a devastating piece on Tim Kaine's quiet and largely unknown decision to see that a convicted murder be returned to his home country. Here is the entire thing: It was every parent’s nightmare —... »