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the grinch who stole christmas

December 24th, 2011 · 15 Comments · local government, musings

I’ve had the hardest time this past six weeks trying to write. I guess I’ve been suffering from some kind of intellectual constipation that also includes this nauseous dread of what the coming year is going to be like. Virginia is one of seven battleground states because of our open Senate seat, and we can [...]

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so who really won tuesday?

November 10th, 2011 · 12 Comments · opinion, politics

Congratulations to Faye Barker, Joe Hale, Artie Hall, Tim Reeves, Gene Horney and Deborah Crigger. I sincerely wish each of you success when you assume your office in January. If you succeed, we all succeed. The answer to the question of who really won Tuesday is the people of Wythe County. For the first time [...]

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the race for the commish (part 2)

November 6th, 2011 · 8 Comments · opinion, politics

I’d like to apologize to Faye Barker, Robert Kegley, and the voters of Wythe County. I made some snarky comments about Ms. Barker in a previous post, and I probably shouldn’t have. In doing so, I’ve created some undeserved sympathy for her at Mr. Kegley’s expense and moved the discussion in this race away from [...]

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the race for the commish

November 3rd, 2011 · 9 Comments · opinion, politics

The Peter Principle states that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence,” meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spoken to a dozen or so rank and file voters who will [...]

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