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  • What part of 'illegal' do you not understand?

    Editor:  ¿Qué parte de la palabra "ilegal" que no entiendes? Welchen Teil des Wortes "illegal" das verstehst du nicht?Quelle partie du mot "illégal" vous ne comprenez pas? Quale parte della parola "illegale" non capisci?In any language the question is...
  • Politics, politicians, and light rail - current blog topics

    (July 28, 2010) - - Our bloggers are active:  Wally Erb getting into the 2nd District congressional fray in Wally's World; and Bob O'Connor warns if the council incumbents are re-elected:  Your grandkids will pay for the failure of light rail.In current...
  • Bringing education to a computer near you! Delivering Education Direct to the Desktop

    By Chris Braunlich Thomas Jefferson Institute   A part of Governor Bob McDonnell's trio of education improvement laws this year was the establishment of procedures for local school boards to contract for virtual school programs - opportunities for stud...
  • 87 convicted criminal aliens and fugitives were arrested by ICE in VA

    RICHMOND, Va. (July 28, 2010) - - 75 foreign nationals with criminal records and 12 fugitives were arrested in the Commonwealth of Virginia and Washington, D.C. following two enforcement surges this summer by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
  • Marketing light rail on the wrong track

    Editor:(July 28, 2010) - - Truth and facts about transportation and light rail needed, not marketing.Truth and facts regarding all proposed transportation and light rail projects are needed, not emotional marketing that tries to educate the public.The pas...
  • A tenuous peace - Trouble always over the horizon

    (July 28, 2010)  - - Our Middle East blogger joins her nation in grieving over Israel's chopper  that went down Monday, killing 7 - one a Romanian AF man.She says that Israel has had a long standing policy of training its air force overseas because of l...
  • Illegal immigration, more than dangerous, could be deadly!

    By Thomas Pastore - Special to VNS(July 28, 2010) -  - Illegal Immigration is more than just Illegal....Perhaps you have read more about the consequences of Illegal entries into America then I have, so I apologize if this is "old" news to you.For so long...
  • Makes you wonder if even the Lord can help our country!

    Editor:What a zoo! If it wasn't for the trauma it caused a nice lady who appears to have been caught in a major con game, the chaos coming out of DC for the last two days involving the firing of a USDA bureaucrat would have had some comic value.  Is thi...
  • Sessoms admits attempt to become a 'kingmaker'

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Mayor Will Sessoms, Saturday in response to a question from the audience, admitted a political power play whereby he's going to help fund certain 'favored' candidates with campaign funds he's raising - attempting to buy political office...
  • Sessoms admits attempt to become a 'kingmaker'

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Mayor Will Sessoms, Saturday in response to a question from the audience, admitted a political power play whereby he's going to help fund certain 'favored' candidates with campaign funds he's raising - attempting to buy political office...
  • Saturday Heat Wave

    Tidewater was hot Saturday.  This backyard weather station in Kings Grant recorded 109 - degrees, in the shade, at 4:59 p.m.  That was the high reached at this station.  And it dropped ever so slowly.  By 9 p.m. it was still reading 97-degrees. The hu...
  • High speed rail between Tidewater & DC 3 years away, Mayor Sessoms tells GOP

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Mayor Will Sessoms' crystal ball has high speed passenger rail from Tidewater to DC in 3 years, linked to light rail, an energy future of offshore drilling, a  windmill farm and an algae to diesel project with ODU by the end of this ye...
  • Heat Wave

    Heat Wave Today's high finally hit 109-degrees @ 4:59 p.M. This indoor sensor of an outdoor weather station in Kings Grant captured the 109-degrees reading at 4:59 - the highest actual ambient temperature it has ever recorded.  The actual readi...
  • The 'goodbye' that made a grown man cry!

    by Larry Henry I buried Abby this morning in the rain.                                                                    Abbigale was the best dog my sister Judy and I ever had. She was ...
  • Let private Tidewater businesses fund the Light Rail system

    Detroit, a broken inner city heavily populated by unemployed blacks, is in need of a light rail system.The feds are on board with a proposed $400 MILLION project.M-1 Rail is being supported by privately funded group of business organizations.Wally Erb, in...
  • Mayor Sessoms GOP breakfast's guest speaker Saturday

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Mayor Will Sessoms will be the GOP breakfast's guest speaker tomorrow at 8:30 a.m.A native of Virginia Beach, Sessoms has been active in local politics since 1988, was selected by council as vice mayor in 1992, a position he held until ...
  • Council candidates beginning to bring in the money

    VIRGINIA BEACH - - Money has started to roll in to Virginia Beach city council race.  At the end of the first reporting period challenger Wally Erb was leading the a-large candidates (and still is) with a $50,000 campaign kitty.Based on information of fu...
  • Writer thinks Democrats are poised to steal elections this fall

    Editor:I think Vice President Joe Biden let the cat out of the bag this weekend. He said the Democrats will surprise everyone this fall.They will do better in the election than expected. Meaning they will steal the elections in several if not all states. ...
  • Ernie Pyle - when there was real journalism

    by Larry Henry Ernie Pyle was the best known newspaper correspondent of World War Two.   Half the world knew his name. They knew, often times, he was up there on the front lines with the infantry, the tankers, or the artillery crews.   People back ...
  • Taxpayers BLAST Gov. McDonnell lies re: Council of Governors

    by Kenneth White, president VTA   The Virginia Taxpayer Association has launched a triple whammy exposing Bob McDonnell’s traitorous acceptance of his appointment by Barack Obama as chairman of the unlawful unconstitutional Council of Governors. It w...