All Entries in the "Guest Editorial" Category

Guest editorial: Tom Perriello: Keep stealing? Yes, we will!

Tom Perriello: Keep stealing? Yes, we will!
by Keith C. Drake

In a rare moment of “accidental honesty affliction” or “AHA,” Congressman Tom Perriello told a group of constituents last March: “If you don’t tie our hands, we will keep stealing.” (emphasis added).
Video of the event produced and posted by The Schilling Show made the national news. [...]

Guest editorial: Housing authority’s explosive expansion may explode

Housing authority’s explosive expansion may explode
by Kenneth A. Martin
For over ten years, the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority (CRHA) has struggled with issues involving finance, management and maintenance of the city’s current 376 public housing units. Over two years ago, the Board of Commissioners of the CRHA decided to hire a consultant, Wallace, Roberts & [...]

Guest editorial: Libertarian vs. Progressive, Rule of Law, and The Slippery Slope

Libertarian vs. Progressive, Rule of Law, and The Slippery Slope
by Jeff Van Wickler
When you and I talk about politics we’re talking about the small stuff. Whether we should build a new county firehouse, or lower taxes on business to keep companies within our state, or on a national scale, whether we should pull out of [...]

Guest editorial: Convicting social justice

Convicting Social Justice
by Josh Lambert
As a graduate of the University of Virginia, I have spent the past three years of my life listening to professors and students sing the praises of a concept I am sure we are all familiar with: Social Justice.  Intellectual after intellectual has told me that the pursuit of Social Justice [...]

Phoenix rising: Banned Albemarle high school editorial re-published

Ellie Leech’s editorial, Student’s P.E. Groans Might Be Warranted, was too hot for publication in Albemarle High School’s (AHS) student newspaper, The Revolution. The controversial piece was printed, but the papers reportedly were destroyed prior to distribution, following complaints from some AHS physical education teachers.
The subject of today’s lead editorial in the Daily Progress, the [...]

Guest editorial: An open letter to the “Tea Partiers” of Virginia’s Fifth District

An Open Letter to the “Tea Partiers” of Virginia’s Fifth District
by James Curtis
Dear colleagues,
I have a piece of good news for you and some bits of bad news. The good news is that Tom Perriello’s days as our Congressman are numbered. The bad news is that is Robert Hurt doesn’t need our votes to win [...]

Guest editorial: Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist?

Is Big Brother a bio-terrorist?
by Tim Griffith
The U. S. Government has waged a Bio-Terrorism campaign on American citizens for over a decade! It’s a fact and only the victims seem to be aware of it. The victims are the states of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and most notably the people that live and work in [...]

Guest editorial: Debunking Charlottesville’s climate change hysteria

Debunking Charlottesville’s climate change hysteria
by Dr. Charles Battig
The recent announcement that Ms. Cynthia Adams, Charlottesville’s Climate Protection Program Coordinator, was hired by the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) prompted me to re-visit the City’s “Environmental Sustainability” page.  Scrolling down to the “A Green City” option, led me to the next set of options, and finally [...]

Guest editorial: For the lack of a nail!

A historic and monumental bill was passed late Sunday night by bending arms and bending rules. Representative Hastings summed it up saying, “There ain’t no rules here—We make them up as we go along.”  Congressman Tom Perriello’s vote made the difference in the outcome of this healthcare legislation. This culmination of rule bending began more [...]

Guest Editorial: An analysis of Republican hypocrisy—Ronald Reagan and beyond

An Analysis of Republican hypocrisy—Ronald Reagan and beyond
By James Curtis
Many of us proponents of smaller government, whether Libertarian, Republican, “small L” libertarian, conservative, “constitutionalist,” independent or some other designation, have been very critical of the significant increases in spending and deficit borrowing enacted by the 111th Congress and President Obama. Additionally, many of us were [...]