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Today's Opinions

  • Don’t let kittens loose

    By Karin Sherbin

    Bedford Humane Society

        Most people think of this time of year only as spring, but for people in animal rescue it’s called the kitten season as young unwanted cats overwhelm shelters or else are abandoned to fend for themselves.
        If anyone thinks they are doing the kittens (or even grown cats) a favor by letting them loose instead of surrendering them to a shelter, they need to think again.

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  • Taking action to reduce gas prices

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

    This past week was another one spent in the District meeting with and talking to people across Central and Southside Virginia.

     

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  • Putting Americans back to work

    While the national unemployment rate has improved slightly, millions of Americans continue to struggle to find work. The only way to help these individuals and our economy recover is to tear down barriers to job creation and get Washington out of the way.

     

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  • Libya policy on slippery slope

        If anyone had said last Christmas that 2011 would be a year of revolutions in the Arab world that would spread from one country to the next, that person would not have been believed.

        Yet, that is exactly what has happened, and the United States has been caught off guard as much as any other country. By the time the administration was digesting what happened in Tunisia – where popular uprisings led the strongman president to leave – it had already spread to Egypt.

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  • The disloyal opposition

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  • Bin Laden's death

    I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

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  • Lettrers 04/27/11

    Bedford Rotary Club thanks Applebee’s


        The Bedford Rotary Club would like to thank the local Applebee’s for allowing them to hold a pancake breakfast fundraiser on Saturday, April 9. With their generous support and help the Bedford Rotary Club raised more than enough funds for a Disaster Relief Shelter Box to help those in need somewhere in the world. Thanks to Applebee’s for its community support.

    Bill Blewitt
    Bedford Rotary Club president

    Children paying the price

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  • The Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

    Over the past couple of weeks, I have had the great opportunity to continue to meet with and hear from Central and Southside Virginians in and across the District.

     

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