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Column – Taxes are part of privilege of being an American
There’s a television ad airing these days that, frankly, irks me. Well, there are several, but this one ...
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Column – Smithfield’s back door is much busier than IW officials imagined
Most country folks tend to use their back doors as their front doors. That’s the entrance nearest the ...
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Column – Trailways once would pick you up at your house
One of my earliest recollections is of a Trailways bus stopping in front of our house on a ...
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Column – Early Times publisher had an entrepreneurial spirit
Community newspaper publishers during much of the 19th and early 20th centuries were printers as well as journalists. ...
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Column – New highway marker brings overdue recognition
Virginia’s African American history has all too often been overlooked, misinterpreted or just plain ignored. That made the ...
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Leaner hogs led to big growth for Smithfield Foods
I have always found the pork industry fascinating. Partly, I suppose, because we raised a few hogs as ...
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Column – Protect and strengthen Virginia’s sunshine law
This is Sunshine Week, a little-known observance of our right to know what government is doing. It’s been ...
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Column – Statue preserves an immigrant family’s beautiful story
It has been said until it has become our most overused cliche that we are a nation of ...
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Column – Military service is declining, and America is worse for it
A rather humorous encounter with Medicare a week or so ago reminded me of the growing absence of ...
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Amid the snow drought, memories of the Circus Blizzard
Snow has rarely been a significant problem in Isle of Wight and Surry, though Surry is a bit ...