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The recent invitation by certain activist groups in the Fredericksburg area to bring consulting firm Concordia into the realm of city politics has produced a letter from Paul Lewis of Rappahannock Area Grassroots. In Fredericksburg, it seems, if you lose an election and you happen to think you should still run the city anyway, you pay [...]
Tom Byrnes wrote an excellent op-ed in the Free Lance Star today on Fredericksburg’s potential to become a regional tourist hub. Sounds good to me, but in a city that already complains about transient college students, I wonder how well voters here would appreciate it if Fredericksburg did become a nerve center for tourism? [...]
For those of us who are in the know, Susan Greenbaum and Bob Gramman are performing at the Songwriters Showcase behind Pickers Supply in Downtown Fredericksburg at 8:00pm on Friday night. Come see! More importantly, Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament is also at 8:00pm at St. Mary Catholic Church. Come see this first! And my [...]
Here we go again. Thanks to the sniper attacks, there has been a recent wave of “me too”-ism reminiscent of the thrity million people who saw the plane slam into the Pentagon on September 11th. Now obviously this is nothing that I can write about to any degree, but I am getting tired [...]
Marvin Bolinger announced that he would resign as Fredericksburg City Manager as of 15 January, a decision that seems to have been made with the implicit threat of having him removed if Bolinger did not do so voluntarily. More tomorrow. . . Mary Washington College is holding a concert at the Battleground Complex on [...]
In a matter of less than 100 days, the new Fredericksburg City Council is proving to be just as interesting as the old one. My opinion piece on the current e-mail lawsuit was printed in the Free Lance-Star on Tuesday, 01 October. It was immediately followed by a surprisingly critical editorial in the [...]