The FXBG Advance is enjoying rapid growth, which is enabling us to expand our coverage to better meet your needs. Among the additions recently made to the Advance are: FXBGAdvance.com Local Deaths Political Cartoons with Clay Jones Local Voters’ Guide New Dominion Podcast Profiles of local candidates Sunday Book Reviews Sunday Arts Reviews Now, we’re […]
Entering the last weekend of September, fall colors are beginning to make their way to Virginia’s mountains, according to American Forests. Near-peak and peak viewing times will be October 16-23, according to the same website. For those who enjoy keeping a close eye on leafy colors, Smokeymountains.com invites people to help improve predictions by reporting […]
If it is true that capitalism has created more opportunity for more people than any other economic system in world history, it’s equally true that it’s delivered considerable pain – economic and psychological – to the people without whom capitalism could not produce the wealth it does. America’s laborers. These are hardly new observations. In […]
In a previous professional life, I was immersed in the world of monastic scribes. The study of long-deceased scribes and scripts is valuable if for no other reason than this. It reminds us that reading and writing does more than transmit culture. It sits at the core of our humanity. To the uninitiated, the attraction […]
