by Doug Thompson | Jan 28, 2021 | FUBAR, Musings, News
Rocky Mount’s two wayward police officer, with stories that continue to change about what they or did not do inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, are now ex-cops after getting fired Tuesday. Town Manager James Ervin confirmed Tuesday that former Thomas...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 9, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, News
As expected, new cases of COVID-19 have cause rapid increases in Floyd County, Southwestern Virginia, and throughout the Old Dominion because of those who ignored warnings about traveling on Thanksgiving to visit friends, relatives, and loved ones. Virginia’s...
by Doug Thompson | Dec 5, 2020 | Coronavirus, COVID-19, News
Virginia’s increase in COVID-19 cases rose by 3,793 in Saturday’s report from the Virginia Department of Health, which included a notation that some of the cases were a “backlog” that had been reported earlier but the numbers follow a pattern...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 15, 2020 | Coronavirus, News
For a while, and in retrospect probably too long, Gov. Ralph Northam tried to give Virginians a chance to step up and take the steps to fight the COVID-19 Coronavirus pandemic by wearing masks, maintain social distancing and act like adults. In Southwest Virginia,...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, FUBAR, News
Why are the cases of COVID-19 Coronavirus rising all around us? Simple says Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, who is a doctor. “They are rising right now because people are gathering, and they’re not wearing masks,” he says. “If you look at where...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 8, 2020 | Musings, News, Politics
America celebrated Saturday with a sense of relief after four years of turmoil, chaos and corruption were turned away by the voters who brought sanity, a desire for unity and a focus of values back to a nation of need. President-elect Joe Biden and vice...
