Opinion
$10k raised! Thanks for making Salvation Army bell-ringing fund-raiser a success
CONGRATULATIONS Vinton and Benton County Residents:
November and December of 2013, I was privileged to SUCCESSFULLY re-establish the volunteer assistance program of the Salvation Army in Vinton...
Chris Christie\'s not-so-subtle blunder
Most people who have paid attention to the whole George Washington Bridge-closing scandal believe that it means bad news for the presidential aspirations of New Jersey Governor Chris (The Redundanc...
2013: Our year of big, good news
Sometime next week, the counter on the front page of the Vinton Today web site (those medium blue numbers at the bottom right corner of the light blue banner behind our name) will turn to: 8,000,00...
The GM-Windows 8 conspiracy
We often look at people who believe in "conspiracy theories" as though they are a little -- or more often, a lot -- crazy.
People believe that government, society, business, and/or al...
Letter to the Editor: Do Christians Have Civil Rights?
By Peter Shaw
Civil rights is a phrase whose origin can be traced back to the early 1700’s. The concept of individual civil rights can be traced back to England’s bill of rights in ...
Why, and how, to make reading \'A Christmas Carol\' an annual tradition
“Marley was dead: to begin with.”
Despite the improper punctuation and the ending of his first sentence with a preposition, Charles Dickens changed the world with his little book ab...
Dad was THIS ladies\' man
Driving home from one of those funeral duties, Dean and I talked about our dads, and how neither of them had much, but they were the best dad that a kid could ask for.
I hadn't thought abou... We all live in a...Purple House?
There was one thing about my dad that was also unique...well, more than one for sure, but one thing that stood out all over town.
He liked to do things to make people happy. And sometime ... \'I yam, what I yam\' because he was, what he was
Yesterday was one of those brutally hard days.
I've had bad days and then I've had bad days and I'm not real sure which "bad" today is.
After 6 years and 9 month... Paula Deen vs. the Media: The most important American news story of 2013
The Most important story in the news this year involves Paula Deen.
Yeah, I know: That sounds absurd.
Before you reach for the ‘Comment’ button, let me explain why, in a year in whi...