Opinion
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Retraction: No Room in Virginia for Bigotry, Endorsement for Wagner
Do the right thing. Vote against bigotry.
Opinion: No Endorsement for Lt. Governor
Candidates show little strength at a time when Virginia needs this attribute.
Endorsement: Deeds Has Temperament and Guts to Lead State
Appomattox News endorses Creigh Deeds for Governor.
Opinion: HELP Can Make Virginia Health Care More Affordable
Legislation could help reduce expenses and premiums.
Opinion: Where are the Town’s Visionaries when it Comes to Water? [UPDATE]
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.
Editor’s Note to Tom Perriello: Nuclear Power is Not Carbon Neutral nor “Carbon-Constrained”
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.”
VUI and NEI: Cheerleaders for Nuclear Energy
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.
About that Waxman-Markey Bill
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.
Political Corruption
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.
Some Observations on the Iranian Presidential Election and its Aftermath
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.
Creigh Deeds is Our Choice for the Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
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.
Reasons Why the Uranium Mine Moratorium Must Stand
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.
