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Before our first child was born, my husband and I had a great dream. Our child was going to eat healthy foods. I would breastfeed to start him out on his path. When he got older and on solid foods, we would buy all organic products to make his meals out of and he would [...]
Continue reading …“No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free, no one ever will.” —Thomas Jefferson The words above are those of Thomas Jefferson, whose 269th birthday we note this week, and that were formed in the midst of the great 18-century disagreement between the Federalists, led by Alexander Hamilton, and the [...]
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Four years ago I climbed aboard the bus and haven’t looked back. Living as I do in a city with a pretty good mass transit system, you won’t find me bemoaning the high price of fuel or needlessly filling up my grocery cart just to receive the gas perk points. Those of you who take [...]
Continue reading …Despite economic woes, road fund surplus paves way for Dems’ election hopes
April 11, 2012 No Comment
West Virginia’s economy has experienced a series of recent misfortunes that suggest this state still has a long way to go to improve its status in the increasingly complex competition for events that can help enhance the Mountain State’s financial future. First there are the continuing concerns about whether the latest tax break rushed though [...]
Continue reading …SHEPHERDSTOWN – The battle between National Park Service Ranger Rob Danno and his superiors over more than 100 trees axed at the request of Washington Redskins’ owner Dan Snyder has been called not the shootout at the OK Corral but the “showdown at the C&O Canal.” As the Shepherdstown resident details in his new book, [...]
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Last night, as I was sleeping I dreamt—marvelous error! — That I had a beehive Here inside my heart. And the golden bees Were making white combs And sweet honey From my old failures. — Antonio Machado It is still Lent as I write this; the 40 days’ journey to Resurrection is not yet complete, [...]
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On occasion, usually in an urban setting (for some unknown reason), I speak in the manner of Garrison Kiellor’s Norwegian rural Minnesota characters. This is especially easy for me having spent much time visiting the Norwegian colony at Griggstown, N.J. One early spring day, Stephanie and I were aboard the Metro train near Falls Church, [...]
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One of the ways hospice programs measure their effectiveness is by looking at the percentage of deaths in a particular area that are hospice deaths — those individuals who have hospice care at the time of death. The number is calculated the same way across the country, and is obtained by comparing the total number [...]
Continue reading …New boundaries for this state’s three congressional districts —drawn at a special legislative session last year and only slightly different from the lines used for the previous decade — will be used in the 2012 election while we all wait to see if the U. S. Supreme Court will step into a dispute that could [...]
Continue reading …It’s taken former President Bill Clinton to say one of the few sensible things about the shooting in Florida more than a month ago of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin. Clinton’s point: it is irrelevant whatever kind of person Martin was to the facts most pertinent to the matter — he was unarmed, and doing nothing more [...]
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