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  • Canning tomatoes: Fun, tasty

    Created: Monday, 31 August 2009 12:38 Author: Administrator
    VIRGINIA BEACH  - - As late summer approaches and tomatoes hang ripe on vines in Tidewater, it’s time to inventory the larder and start thinking about canning.  Prepare for the cold dark months with a store of great canned tomatoes.It’s hard to face...

  • Publishing Guides

    Created: Monday, 31 August 2009 03:59 Author: Administrator
    Site Color Guide Color Scheme Blue R - 0 G - 24 B - 112 #001870 Red R - 0 G - 24 B - 112 #900000 Grey R - 204 G - 204 B - 204 #cccccc Text Style Guide Normal Text "Body" copy ...

  • Review: Margie&Ray's Seafood Restaurant

    Created: Sunday, 30 August 2009 09:50 Author: Administrator
    VIRGINIA BEACH  - - Out-of-the-way, Margie&Ray’s Seafood Restaurant, 1240 Sandbridge Rd., provided for a nice drive out of the suburbs, for dinner this weekend.Although we’ve passed the location many times over the past 2 decades or more, we’d ...

  • Senator Edward Kennedy (1932-2009)

    Created: Friday, 28 August 2009 10:19 Author: Joe McGrenra
    Growing up my mother always stressed not to speak ill of the dead, and I was going to avoid commenting on the passing of Senator Ted Kennedy, however the overload of voices singing his praises has compelled me to speak out.None of us are saints. Too often...

  • District 9

    Created: Thursday, 27 August 2009 15:07 Author: Steve Meyerson
    I'm not a sci-fi movie enthusiast, but one of my poker buddies said he wasn't either, but enjoyed this film tremendously anyway.   So I went. So I didn't enjoy it.   The movie had some redeeming value addressing some social aspects of our country. B...

  • Inglourious Basterds

    Created: Thursday, 27 August 2009 14:55 Author: Steve Meyerson
    I thought the movie was great. My friend didn't like it. So I'll try to be objective.   It had pretty good reviews and was a smash at the box office. Having Brad Pitt didn't hurt, but getting past his manufactured southern drawl was a bit of a stretch ...

  • 'Mad as hell..." Is conservative overthrow of govt. coming?

    Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 12:04 Author: Editor
    VIRGINIA BEACH – - It should come as no surprise, no fluke, that pollster Frank Luntz found that the public is “mad as hell and they ain’t gonna take it anymore.” That statement isn’t just his summary, its the wording and feelings of those he h...

  • Del. Hamilton Poster child for private greed @ public expense!

    Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 10:39 Author: Editor
    The Peninsula’s GOP Del. Phil Hamilton is the poster child for private greed at public expense: The VNS saying: “If their lips are moving they are lying.” First he said that his legislation to fund a new $500,000 start up program at Old Dominion ...

  • VBTA polices show how alleniated it is from public

    Created: Monday, 24 August 2009 08:49 Author: Michael Barrett
    Editor: Just a year ago, John Moss's position in the run for Mayor was that every blue collar city and school board worker was so overpaid that they should be fired and replaced by a government contractor. So I simply don't accept this recent letter as a...

  • Affordable Housing - North Carolina Style

    Created: Thursday, 20 August 2009 08:12 Author: Wally Erb
    North Carolina is the first state to include affordable housing in their Fair Housing Act, claiming to be paving the way for progress in affordable housing. The Affordable Housing/No Discrimination Act (SB 810) expands the North Carolina Fair Housing Act ...

  • Hey Barney! We're out here! We Vote! We're Angry!

    Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 00:00 Author: John Kuchta
    I just watched TV coverage of the most arrogant representative from Massachusetts, Mr. Barney Frank. Barney said a mouthful when he proclaimed at a Town Hall meeting last night that "I can't understand why you're so angry?" Well, Barney, that's exactly ...

  • VBTA blamed for area's transportation woes!

    Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 00:00 Author: Administrator
    Editor:Certainly, two of the VBTA chief spokesmen have been Ben Krause and Reid Greenmun.  We all know how Ben sabotaged John Moss's run for Mayor with his infamous memo advising John to replace all blue collar workers in the city and schools with contra...

  • Of Real Estate Taxes and New Revenue

    Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 00:00 Author: Administrator
    In an e-mail on Aug. 12 to a citizen‘s question regarding The Seven Projects, Virginia Beach Mayor Sessoms commented on two particular issues of paramount importance to all citizens: Our real estate tax and the potential new, additional tax revenue that...

  • Ranting against VBTA based on emotions, not fact!

    Created: Sunday, 16 August 2009 19:41 Author: Ben Krause
    Editor:  It is simply amazing that mighty Keyboard Commando Mike Barrett, CEO of real estate development company, Runnymede, owned by Andrew Fine, thinks that the Virginia Beach Taxpayer's Alliance (VBTA) is so ineffective and out of touch and yet he con...

  • Investigative Reports

    Created: Tuesday, 11 August 2009 09:14 Author: Editor
    VNS INVESTIGATIVE REPORTS Virginia News Source published it first story on May 10, 2001 about the city erecting an illegal billboard on top of Mount Trashmore, facing the Interstate 264, advertising a golf to...

  • From The Editor's Desk

    Created: Sunday, 09 August 2009 10:05 Author: Editor
    Virginia Citizens Defense League - Protector of 2nd Amendment Freedoms in VA   Phil Van Cleave, president of the Virginia Citizens Defense League (VCDL), one of the greatest protector of our 2nd Amendment rights in Virginia, periodically sends out  u...

  • Norfolk trying to steal private land in name of progress

    Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 17:01 Author: Robert K. Dean
    Filthy McNasty is back at the marriage alter with Old Dominion University.  Eminent domain's ugly head is rising... again! Just when you thought your local elected officials and government bureaucrats had finally read the Virginia Constitution and w...

  • Peace In Our Time

    Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 16:52 Author: Roy Starrin
    In 1940, having been led down the primrose path of “peace in our time,”a beleaguered Britain was faced with the real possibility of an invasion by a Nazi horde whose leaders promised, “Today Germany, tomorrow the world.” At that time, the Brits w...

  • Virginia Beach City Government: A council without ears!

    Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 16:48 Author: Reid Hreenmum
    The Virginian-Pilot missed the real story - again. Their coverage of this week’s Virginia Beach City budget hearing focused solely upon many citizens that took their valuable time to drive out to the Municipal Center and remind City Council that the Cit...

  • Local Transportation Bureaucracy Run-A-Muck

    Created: Friday, 07 August 2009 16:26 Author: Ben Krause
    The average Hampton Roads citizen knows little about the local state and federal beauracy and probably does not care to know.  However, since our local, state and federal hard earned tax dollars at risk, we need to understand some basics and be alerted...