Vinton Today: Just the news, not the paper

VINTON TODAY
April 6, 2011 10:48 am

     I was walking into work one day with a colleague.      Ahead of us, another co-worker was walking to her office.

Hackers, passwords and pins

VALERIE CLOSE, EDITOR
April 5, 2011 12:16 pm

We've all heard it over and over, don't use the same passwords for your online accounts...bank, e-mail, online store accounts, facebook, etc.

Getting bad news numbers with good news

VINTON TODAY
April 4, 2011 11:22 pm

       Vinton Today readers read a total of nearly 5,800 stories on Monday. (We averaged 5,000 a day last Monday through Friday).

Pastor's Blog: THE LORD GIVETH AND THE LORD TAKETH AWAY

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
April 1, 2011 12:11 am

  I've heard "the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away" used in the context of dealing with times of tragedy, loss and grief.

A perspective on Vietnam from someone almost as old as the war

VINTON TODAY
March 29, 2011 11:54 am

       I only have one personal Vietnam story. It's about my dad's cousin, Mike.      As a kid, I only met Mike once, and was in awe of him.

March Madness, Badness and Sadness

VINTON TODAY
March 24, 2011 8:53 am

       Question: Who coined the phrase "March Madness?"      Answer:  I do not know.

Journalism has need for keeping secrets, as well as blabbing them

VINTON TODAY
March 23, 2011 9:05 pm

       During a conversation with a Washington County law enforcement officer about a decade ago, the officer let it slip that he was going to run for sheriff the next year.

What what matters most often does not in modern media

VINTON TODAY
March 22, 2011 11:20 am

       One of the ways in which modern America media fails is this: We spend way too little time writing about things that matter, and way too much time writing about people who don't.

On the media: Being first vs. being the best

VINTON TODAY
March 21, 2011 11:55 am

       Twice in the past week, I was the only media guy in the room when someone said, "I don't like the media; I really don't like the media," or  "The media is the problem.

Pastor's Blog: WHOSE WE ARE

PASTOR LANETTE S. VAN
March 17, 2011 12:28 pm

  I Corinthians 6:12-20 Matthew 4:1-11 "I am yours and you are mine" When my father died, it put me into a kind of identity crisis.