It appears the Smyth County’s General Registrar Sandy Elswick has released the list of candidates in Smyth County’s towns (Chilhowie, Marion, and Saltville) for the May 2nd Town Elections. The list is available here from the SBE. These are the candidates who have filed thus far. The deadline to file as […]

Here Jerry, From On High, has an interesting post about how SWVA is helping subsidize mass transit in NOVA.
I agree with him that the only mass transit in Smyth County is the U-Haul trucks headed for the county line.

Here is an article from the RT-D about VDOT making maintenance cutbacks due to overspending by $40 Million on maintenance activities in the last 7 months.
As a result, VDOT will cut back on cutting the grass and other road maintenance activities. In previous years we have saw VDOT do similar tasks after very harsh […]

Some sad news. Don Knotts, better known as Deputy Barney Fife from The Andy Griffith Show has died at the age of 81. Here is a FoxNews report.
The Andy Griffith Show is one of, if not the best, classic television shows.

Here is a link to an official opinion issued by Attorney General Bob McDonnell at the request of Delegate Robert G. Marshall (R-Manassas). Marshall inquired as to whether Governor Kaine had the power to issue an executive order that outlawed bias against gays in state hiring, employment, and promotions. Also, here is […]

Here is an article from the Smyth County News & Messenger that discusses the decline of new homes being built in Smyth County and the age of existing homes. This indeed is very disturbing.

By comparison, Smyth County counted 50 new single-family homes last year, while Washington County weighed in with 241. Wythe County recorded […]

Here is a post at RedState sent to me by a friend. I think the subject of it is quite hilarious and serious at the same time.
Rep. Sue Myrick (R-NC) sent a letter to President Bush today expressing her disdain for the plan to sell certain American ports to a company in the UAE. […]

Here is something I’ve been meaning to saw a word about for awhile now.
Recently the Saltville community has been abuzz about the proposed “rails to trails” project. This is compounded by the fact that contractors have recently begun removing the 8 to 9 miles of railroad from Saltville to Glade Spring and […]

Here is a very disturbing article from the RT-D. It is about HB 339 patroned by Del. Robert Orrock (R-District 54).
The bill basically will turn your veterinarian into a tax collector for the locality. The bill provides that all veterinarians upon administering a rabies vaccination shall forward to the local treasurer […]

For the second straight budget, President Bush proposes the elimination of the Upward Bound program. The BHC has this article. Last year, Congress stepped in and restored funding for UB. I hope they do it again this time around. Upward Bound is part of the TRIO group of federally funded programs […]