May 22, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Hot off the presses! A new chapter has been added to the international best seller, “The Adventures of Neanderthanald Donald.” This chapter is titled “The Rake’s Progress” aka “The Rape’s Progress,” depending on your viewpoint.
May 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: A local detractor recently attacked not only Martin Brown, the Youngkin administration’s chief diversity officer’s message but also his Virginia government salary ($160,000).
May 22, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: During my Air Force career, I flew two missions in the venerable, old C-141 Starlifter that I always think about, with great reverence, on Memorial Day.
May 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: We have veterans in our community who walk through their days with a starkly different consciousness than those of us who never served in the military.
May 12, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: With all the recent talk about artificial intelligence technology and how it rivals, and might soon surpass, regular human smarts, I suddenly realized that one form of such intelligence has already taken over much of our common sense.
May 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: It is encouraging to hear the mayor of New York assign some responsibility to the animal agriculture industry for contributing, along with the fossil fuel companies, significant harm to Earth’s climate.
May 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette, I want to echo Tom Contos’s concerns about the city’s plans for the intersection at McLaughlin Street and Lime Kiln Road as reported in last week’s article “Lexington OK’s ‘Sound’ Budget.”
May 15, 2023 Editor, The News-Gazette: Your letter writer misses the mark with his comments regarding Virginia’s director of Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion’s recent speech at VMI.
Graduation season is upon us. Our readers will see that several of our pages are devoted to coverage of local comme n c eme nt s this week. Soon we will publish our annual high school graduation section. Another school year has come and gone.
The Rockbridge area, with its rich history, has much to celebrate in May, which is designated as National Historic Preservation Month. We are indebted to many individuals and organizations who have contributed to efforts to preserve the relics of our bountiful local history. The Historic Lexington Foundation, Rockbridge Historical Society, Paxton House Historical Society, Brownsburg Museum, Stonewall Jackson House, George C. Marshall Museum, Virginia Military Institute Museum, and Washington and Lee University’s special collections and museums are among the guardians of our local history.
