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Gray: Observations from Ferlazzo
On Wednesday, I went to the town hall meeting about the elimination of commuter parking spaces at Potomac Mills.
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Mercer: Just say later: Teens delay motherhood
WASHINGTON — First lady Michelle Obama’s campaign encouraging kids to eat healthier foods and exercise is a modest enterprise compared with the federal government’s bold attempt in 1981 to curb teen sex.
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Ridge: A (sad) snapshot of America
About once a day, I visit the News & Messenger’s website, insidenova.com. I like to see what’s being reported about my immediate area, like why exactly there were police cars and crime investigators lining my street a few weeks ago (which, by the way, was never actually in the newspaper, and we’re all still wondering).
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Verner: Knuckling down
I was fixing something in the microwave a few days ago, I don’t remember what since all my signature dishes are made in the microwave, and I had something from the food on the tips of my fingers.
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Simpson: Homeowners associations are too powerful
My townhouse is currently “in foreclosure.” I am not in this boat alone, as there are a number of people struggling to survive.
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Shannon: Autism vote costs GOP its credibility
Does this mean I am opposed to helping autistic children? No. It means I’m opposed to politicians who vote for feel-good legislation and require someone else to foot the bill for the celebration.
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Merli: In Virginia, whom to pick on next?
You wouldn’t think such a move was really necessary, but a few days ago the state Senate down in Richmond found itself having to adopt a measure that would ban any form of discrimination against gays who might be holding down state jobs.
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Reichley: Ending taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood
Planned Parenthood is a nearly century-old organization providing reproductive health services, including abortion. They operate over 800 clinics with a budget of just over a billion dollars, of which close to $400 million comes from taxpayers at the federal or state level. But like so many organizations which live off the forced charity of others, they balk at the idea of the people who fund them having a say in the matter.
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Gray: The formula for successful government
A few days ago, I had the privilege of being at the National Prayer Breakfast in downtown D.C. I served as an usher at the event, and I have to say it was one of the most inspiring Washington events I’ve been to in years.
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Verner: Dislocated and out of touch
For hundreds of years, sailing ships took months to cross the oceans. Settlers took months to cross the continent. Letters were weeks in arriving. Life moved at a walk, and then later at the pace of steam.
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Merli: Redistricting made honest
I’m not sure exactly when the habit of everyone invoking “our Founding Fathers” to make their various points actually began, but I don’t remember it being bandied about all that much until the past couple of decades.
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Shannon: You can't be a little bit 'private'
Who would have thought lawbreakers would have an effective lobby — and among Republicans at that! What’s more, it’s not the expected Wall Street miscreants; it’s mean street miscreants. Red-light runners now boast renewed influence in the General Assembly, starting with Prince William County’s own Del. Scott Lingamfelter, who just introduced a bill that halts the installation of new “photo red” traffic-enforcement cameras.
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Mercer: 'Obamacare' fight need not be on GOP ground
“We think this is just the beginning,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said Wednesday after the Senate failed, as expected, to repeal the health care law. “This issue is still ahead of us, and we will be going back at it in a variety of different ways.”
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Gray: Slugs are people, too, Part 2
I normally don’t write about the same topic in two consecutive weeks. But I must make an exception this time.
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Mercer: Attacking arts funding? So what else is new?
Few things are as reliable in Washington as Republicans’ trying to abolish funding for the arts and humanities.
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Shannon: Gov., meet Privatization Anonymous
I’m concerned about Gov. Bob McDonnell. He seems to be embarking on a white-whale situation involving his obsession with privatizing the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control (ABC). This unnatural focus is a damaging, negative influence on his administration.
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Merli: Watching GOP consume its young
Let’s admit it: It’s downright amusing to watch Republicans here in the commonwealth bicker over how far right their esteemed members should be — and whether all of them are really “conservative enough” to serve with honor in the GOP.
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Reichley: Untangling the foreclosure mess
In 2010, one out of every 45 homeowners was at risk of losing his or her home, as almost 2.9 million received foreclosure filings.
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Gray: Slugs are people, too
I got the e-mail and couldn’t believe it: "Potomac Mills to cut 725 parking spaces."
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Mercer: New health care law helps war on tobacco
Progress in the war on tobacco has slowed. One in five Americans still smokes, and more than a thousand Americans die of tobacco-related illnesses every day.
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Verner: Signs of the times
I saw in the news recently that a new sign of the zodiac has been added to the twelve most people know about already. I’m not sure who makes these decisions—the Institute for Horoscopy?
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Simpson: Take control by relinquishing control to Christ
I have been a fake Christian for most of my life. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not as if I have gone around telling people that I am a Christian while secretly not believing in God or Christ. I mean that I have talked the talk but not walked the walk.
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Shannon: All the news that's good for you
Newspaper circulation and TV news ratings are falling because people no longer trust journalists. They are tired of being misled as some reporters select and distort news coverage to conform to the media’s ideology.
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Merli: Tackett's Mill's empty corner
Does it bother anyone that one of the most prominent commercial corners located adjacent to the gateway to Lake Ridge (heading west on Old Bridge Road in Eastern Prince William) is a monumental eyesore these days? It bothers me because it just seems to sit there idle, month after month, gated off from the rest of typically bustling Tackett’s Mill shopping center— a corner that is currently more reminiscent of something we might see in the lesser parts of any inner city.
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Gray: Where do we go from here?
Why do tragedies like this happen? Why does a 9-year-old child, nowhere close to the prime of her life, get struck down by what authorities say was a madman’s bullet?
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