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Roanoke Voters Will Need to Let The Current Council Out and A New Council In

What a surprise, another shooting on Sunday morning in Roanoke City! Indeed no, it is not a surprise. Roanoke City Council members and Mayor Sherman Lea, who soon will...

FRED FIRST: Still is Still Moving . . .

We just don't quite know when the VAN will be at the door THE RECAPThe storyline...

RANDY HUFF: On Disagreement, Motive and Dealing With The Issue at Hand

Charity can help avoid the mire of polarizationAmazing how readily we find fault. Steven Covey...

MELINDA MYERS: Heat-Tolerant Beauties for Gardens and Containers

Boost the summer-long beauty and heat tolerance in your gardens and containers with new varieties...

SERWAN ZANGANA: May God’s Will ALWAYS Overpower My Will

Between God’s will and our free will, our lives continue on earth. The outcome of...

Learning To Fly

Sometimes, being a ‘rehabber’ puts you in interesting situations. When we first began rehabbing, we had been provided the challenge of raising a 7.5 gram...

Be The Change . . . Yadayadayada

Not to in any way minimize the infamous Ghandi quote, I guess I just don't know how to do it. I have been thinking about...

A Lackluster Legacy

Searching for an indelible legacy, President Obama has finally found one. We should all be excited about his family vacation trip to Havana, Cuba...

  A Modest March Proposal

It is time for ‘March Madness.’  For those of you uninterested in college basketball, this is the time when the NCAA selects a large...

The Fractured EU

For ‘Progressives’ who think the US should be a reproduction of the European Union, read on. The EU is a vast bureaucracy that attenuates...

When a Winner Is a Loser

Once there was a country that was really in the economic doldrums, unemployment was high, national morale was at an all-time low, the government...