Archive for February 2009
Give it up!
Forecasting the weather, that is. Last night, there was an article on PilotOnline that said we had a 90% chance of snow overnight. (Of course, I can’t find the link this morning.) The 11:00 news provided reports of what VDOT was doing to prepare for the morning commute. When I got up, nary a hint … Continue reading
Wow! What a day!
On the first day of appointments for me for tax season, lots of stuff happened – and I missed a lot of it I started the day not with clients but at the announcement of Hampton Roads Performs (more on that later). While there, I learned of the announcement by AG Bob McDonnell that he … Continue reading
TCC president’s remarks on MLK Day
I mentioned earlier that the remarks offered by Tidewater Community College president, Dr. Deborah M. DiCroce, at the Urban League Community Leaders breakfast were, as always, outstanding. I finally received a copy of the text of them and with her permission, they are reprinted below. Good morning. On behalf of the entire TCC community, it’s … Continue reading
The politics of destruction
The Miami Herald’s Leonard Pitts has an interesting column reprinted in Monday’s Virginian Pilot (original here) in which he addresses a reader named Doug. Doug is just the voice of many who criticized Pitts for criticizing Limbaugh. Pitts hones in, though, on something that others have mentioned but bears repeating (emphasis mine): He seems to … Continue reading
Massive Resistance: the editorials
The Virginian Pilot today reprinted 14 editorials written by Editor Lenoir Chambers over the course of 1959. The first and last are available online here. These editorials won the Pulitzer Prize for Chambers in 1960.Some 13,000 Virginia students were affected by the closing of schools across the Commonwealth, about 10,000 of them in Norfolk. In … Continue reading
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