Today's News

    Do you ever wonder how it could be that most Americans are so unconcerned, so blasé, about a U.S. war in a strange, foreign country where we have now been embroiled for nearly 10 years?

    How many of us, in our daily routines, ever even hear people talking about this war, one way or the other? Either for it or against it? While the Iraq war was raging, during Bush’s last term, Afghanistan was occasionally mentioned as “the forgotten war.”

The President’s willingness to reach an agreement with Republicans on controversial tax issues is the right step to take. The real question now becomes whether the Democrats in Congress will follow suit and actually pass the proposal.
    That’s a lot less likely.

A grandmother is walking across America to call attention to the need of bone marrow donors.

    Jeana Moore’s journey started in Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 19, 2009. After strolling down the West Coast to Los Angeles, she turned eastward. She walked through Bedford County recently, her route taking her down U. S. 460 with stops in Bedford and Goode. She’s been walking between 12 and 15 miles a day.
    “During the summer, I was doing 18 to 20 through the desert,” she said.

The National Weather Service expects our winter not to be as wet or cold as last year—a year that brought several larger-than-normal snow storms.

    "We are in a La Niña pattern where it favors warmer weather,"said William Perry of the Weather Services' Blacksburg office.
    El Niño/La Niña is an oscillation of temperatures in the Pacific Ocean. During El Niño, water is warmer in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. During La Niña, it's colder.