Opinion
Finally: Time to put Total Dale Earnhardt policy to work in Iraq
Finally, seven years after George W. Bush told the world that the war in Iraq would start “at the time and the place of our choosing,” America now has the chance to do what I wrote in M...
Dear Editor,
Dear Editor,
We have been hammered by the press and many elected leaders about the consequences of allowing the so called "Bush Tax Cuts" to expire.
This Government in the last 18...
Peeking at the Guest Book: A beginner's guide to grief
“You gave away one of our secrets,” said Frank, the Funeral Home Guy.
We had just buried my mom — and three weeks to the day later, my grandfather — when I wrote the fo...
Another Thank YOU to our Vinton Today readers!
Dear, dear readers and contributors.
As I sit at the computer once again check the e-mail, and find I have a few minutes break before the next wave of e-mail, I wanted to tell everyone thank yo...
19th Amendment turns 90
Today marks the 90th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, the amendment that allows women to vote.
The whole idea that women had to prove they had enough brains to vote, seems pretty lame.
Th...
A voice from the past, August 24, 1913
I love history.
The more personal the history the better.
The other day I stumbled across this letter to an editor dated on this day back in 1913.
"Good Grandma Heath, Pen, pricks ...
August health risk: Beware of allergy sufferers like me
Public Health Departments all over the U.S. should be, right now, issuing the following public health warning:
“Beware: This is the time for seasonal allergies. You should be aw...
Human Descrepancies
There’s one thing you can rely on. You can be certain of it even when everything else is questionable. People are unpredictable! That you can be sure of! Count on it! They don’t fit int...
Hey, is that...it is!
This last weekend I had an unexpected visit with an old friend.
It was one of those things when you look across the room and say, "Hey, that's.....! I haven't seen him in...."...
Not everyone who opposes \'9/11 Mosque\' does so out of fear or prejudice
Sometimes it’s hard to take sides on an issue because many of the people most loudly involved are so terribly wrong.
The proposed Islamic Cultural Center near Ground Zero – dubbed t...