Aug. 22, 2022 Editor, The News-Gazette: While I can appreciate Arvid Christiansen’s interest in the landscape of Courthouse Square, I do not agree with his suggestion that the two tall maple trees be cut down.
The second round of balloting for the 2022 Country Music Association Awards got underway the first week of August and ran through Aug. 16. The roughly 7,000 voting members of the association will winnow the 20 nominees in each category down to five.
The Goshen branch of the Rockbridge Regional Library is slated to vacate its current premises in the former Goshen school building on Oct. 15. Ongoing maintenance issues, particularly a leaky roof, and declining patronage were given as reasons by the library’s board when it voted earlier this summer to leave the building the library has occupied for the past 24 years.
Aug. 15, 2022 Editor, The News Gazette: I vacationed with my daughter recently, and it reminded me painfully of what it’s like to walk the world in a young woman’s body. So many men think they have a right to make obscene comments about a woman’s appearance and, worse, what they’d like to do to her. The world tells women again and again that their safety and dignity aren’t worth much.
Aug. 19, 2022 Editor, The News-Gazette: As a retired chemical engineer who began his career troubleshooting chemical plants, I am concerned at the approach the climate activists in the U.S. are using in the problem of global warming. Unless we take the “global “in global warming seriously, there is little chance we will succeed in the solution of the largest problem facing mankind.
Aug. 19, 2022 Editor, The News-Gazette: If Washington, Lee, and Jackson were here today, I honestly believe they would be heartbroken. They would probably say what transpired since 2020 is disgraceful, especially damage to statues and government, private and business buildings. There is more racism today than ever before because people are beating the issue to death, causing once fair-minded people to become racist.
Aug. 15, 2022 Editor, The News-Gazette: I wrote a letter a while back expressing confusion about the American dream and what “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” is all about.
