by Doug Thompson | Oct 13, 2020 | Musings
You know things are really changing in Virginia when people in Charlottesville start removing the name of prominent Albemarle County native son Thomas Jefferson from public view and recognition. The University of Virginia may be “Mr. Jefferson’s...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 12, 2020 | Coronavirus, Sports
Virginia Tech is postponing its football season opener against Virginia and put a four-day pause on practice. “The safety, as well as the physical and mental well-being of these young men and women entrusted to our care by their families remains our top priority,”...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 25, 2014 | Musings
The man charged with “abduction with intent to defile” missing University of Virginia co-ed Hannah Graham is now under arrest after police found him on a beach near Galveston, Texas, Wednesday afternoon. Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr., a 32-year-old hospital...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 24, 2014 | Musings
Far too much commentary on social networks and elsewhere on the web about how University of Virginia student Hannah Graham was dressed and her state of intoxication at age 18 when she disappeared 10 days ago in Charlottesville. City police at the home town of the...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 31, 2010 | Musings
The short biography of a University of Virginia egghead who wrote a diatribe against rehab in general and Alcoholics Anonymous in particular — in an op-ed that appeared in The Roanoke Times and other newspapers recently — tells us all we need to know about...
