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 10, 2020 | Coronavirus
Floyd County now has at least three deaths attributed to the COVID-19 Coronavirus and five new infections were added Thursday by the Virginia Department of Health as part of the 1,236 additional listings throughout the Commonwealth. In addition, three residents of the...
by Doug Thompson | Sep 8, 2020 | Coronavirus, Musings, News
James Madison University in Harrisonburg gave up with its experiment in terror, also known as trying to start school person-to- person education after students ignored safety rules, hundreds got sick and now thousands started heading home over the Labor Day weekend....
by Doug Thompson | Sep 2, 2020 | Coronavirus
Virginia Tech reported 157 positive tests last week in Blacksburg. We don’t know how many of those might have been members of the school’s football team because coach Justin Fuente doesn’t believe in transparency, a normal move for a university that...
by Doug Thompson | May 2, 2017 | Musings
For the past three months, racist fliers supporting white supremacy have appeared at the University of Maryland in College Park. Similar fliers have popped up at many campuses around the nation, including Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. “It is your civic duty to...
