by Doug Thompson | Mar 1, 2014 | Musings
Think racial tension is dead and buried in the Old Dominion? Think again. On Friday, seven Senators — five of them black and all Democrats — walked out of the chamber in Richmond after Republicans chose the final day of Black History Month to introduce a...
by Doug Thompson | Nov 15, 2010 | Featured, Musings
Floyd County’s Board of Supervisors is not a confrontational government entity. The five members of the board seldom get in anyone’s face. But months of sustained abuse of the county by the re-aligned Virginia Department of Transportation has some members...
by Doug Thompson | Aug 6, 2010 | FUBAR, Musings
Lance Terpenny, Floyd’s new Town Manager, took an $80,000 pay cut to move from Christiansburg — where the Town Council told him to resign after saying they had “lost confidence” in his ability to serve their needs — but he’s not...
by Doug Thompson | Mar 8, 2010 | News
Virgil Goode and George Allen may be distant, bitter memories in the minds of most progressive Virginians but Ken Cuccinelli, the Commonwealth’s homophobic attorney general, stepped up late last week to remind us that cretins still exist in our government....
by Doug Thompson | Feb 25, 2010 | FUBAR, Musings
If you buy into the propaganda surrounding the new law suspending Appalachian Election Power’s (AEP) latest rate increase then your momma failed to drown the dumb ones. The bill, signed into law by Gov. Bob McDonnell with lots of fanfare Wednesday, suspends...
