By Linda Goin on 2 November 2009
Do the right thing. Vote against bigotry.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged 2006 Virginia Marriage Amendment, Bill Bolling, Jody Wagner, Ken Cucinelli
By Linda Goin on 28 October 2009
Candidates show little strength at a time when Virginia needs this attribute.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Bill Bolling, Jody Wagner
By Linda Goin on 28 October 2009
Appomattox News endorses Creigh Deeds for Governor.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Bob McDonnell, Creigh Deeds
By Staff Reports on 19 October 2009
Legislation could help reduce expenses and premiums.
Posted in Health, Opinion | Tagged Health Care for America Now, Virginia Organizing Project
By Linda Goin on 9 September 2009
In a visit to Johnny Roark at the Appomattox County Planning office in May, Appomattox News learned more about the water line proposal, the county’s efforts toward building a water line and about the issues surrounding this project that were generated between Appomattox County and the Town of Appomattox.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Appomattox County, Town of Appomattox, water line, waterline
By Linda Goin on 30 June 2009
In Tom Perriello’s report to the Fifth District this week, he states, “Southside Virginia will be one of the winners under this bill, accelerating its ascendance to being the future energy capital of Virginia. In a carbon-constrained economy, we will see a resurgence of nuclear power.” While this statement appears to tout a promising future for Southside, the reality is that nuclear power is not “carbon-constrained.”
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Paducah Kentucky, Pittsylvania County, Tom Perriello, uranium
By Letters on 25 June 2009
The VUI oligarchy continues to ignore and minimize the negative impacts of uranium mining and milling. Equally disturbing is this industry’s ongoing attempts to errode our civil rights and the legislators who are allowing this travesty.
Posted in Letters, Opinion | Tagged The Nuclear Energy Institute, Virginia Uranium Inc.
By Linda Goin on 18 June 2009
Lt. Gov. Bolling has today issued a challenge to his opponent for the Lt. Governor’s race, Jody Wagner. He wants Ms. Wagner to join him in opposing the “Waxman-Markey national energy tax plan,” his phrase for the American Clean Energy & Security Act. While we have yet to hear from Wagner (as the challenge was published just moments ago), we feel it is in our readers’ best interests to lay out a few facts about this bill, H.R. 2454.
Posted in Environment, Opinion | Tagged American Clean Energy & Security Act, H.R. 2454, Waxman-Markey
By Letters on 18 June 2009
The recent Republican Attorney General’s opinion declaring that Pittsylvania County does not have the right to enact an ordinance banning uranium mining within its borders speaks volumes about how corrupt our political system has become.
Posted in Letters, Opinion | Tagged Dillon's Rule, Pittsylvania County, Robert Hurt, uranium
By Phil Wilayto on 14 June 2009
As this is being written, official announcements in Iran today of a landslide victory by incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad are being met with cries of “fraud” by supporters of his principal challenger, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged Ahmadinejad, Moussavi
By Linda Goin on 1 June 2009
As a newspaper editor and publisher, I receive many press releases from gubernatorial candidates. The majority of the Democratic press releases come from Terry McAuliffe, a man who has the money to run an expensive and, therefore, effective campaign. I have not printed all his press releases, as it would appear that Appomattox News supports McAuliffe. This is not the case.
Posted in Creigh Deeds, Governor's Race 2009, Opinion
By Linda Goin on 24 April 2009
Are you interested in the uranium mine project proposed for Pittsylvania County? I am, because I lived just miles from Uravan, Colorado for almost a decade. Therefore, I know what an abandoned uranium/vanadium-mining project looks like before Superfund clean-up begins. And, I know a fair amount of information about drilling and radiation, because I am related to a hydrogeologist in Colorado and I have learned much about this subject over the decades.
Posted in Opinion | Tagged mining, uranium, Virginia
