Opinion
Life ain\'t always harder after high school
I've got some very good news for some of you graduates regarding something you may have heard during a graduation ceremony: It's absolutely untrue.
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I just saw something I\'ve never seen before...
Ok, I admit it, I'm still a city kid.
The other night while driving home, something ran across the road that looked like a gray blur.
I've gotten used to seeing deer on the road, so...
The Old Country Church
A few nights ago, I spent the evening in one of the seats my grandparents and aunts and uncles sat in. I went to a tiny country church about 30 miles from my home.
I never get over how you...
Why the USA PATRIOT Act needs a new name
When you walk into the nearest Social Security office, the first person you see is a man with a gun. The first words you hear are "Why are you here?"
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Hard choices vs. easy news
The pundits are often saying that politicians are letting us down because they fail to make the "hard choices." Energy policy. Fiscal policy. Middle East p...
What a grandpa wants...
For the first time in a very long time, we have very little new news to put on Vinton Today. And since I have written before that TV stations and newspapers should b...
The second-best graduation speech for the VSHS Class of 2011
Congratulations! Today is your day!
No, wait. That is someone else's graduation speech, the best one ever written or shared during a ...
What we do, and what we don\'t
Imagine this: You are at a restaurant, eating your steak and chicken. (Unless of course you are a tofu and salad type; if so, imagine that. Me, I am sticking with the...
Natural Born Citizen?
Editor:
Is there a real possibility that our President may be ineligible for the Office he holds? ...
RESURRECTION FAITH
Acts 2:14a, 22-32
I Peter 1:3-9
In the movie, "UP," we see Carl's front door door and listen as he unlocks, one by one, six locks follwed by the drawing of ...