Columns

John Bigger of Fayetteville, N.C. is project director of FACE-IT

If someone told you that 10,000 adults had a treatable disease and that 9,000 were going without treatment, would you be concerned?
That this disease affects 8.25 percent of the county’s adult population, would you be concerned?
This community has a silent epidemic eating away its resources — destroying families, damaging businesses, giving rise to criminal acts, hindering children’s success, taking lives prematurely.

The United States Postal Service is careening toward insolvency, with projections showing it finishing another year spending far more than it earns.
A report issued this month by the Government Accountability Office revealed the postal service posted a net loss of $329 million in the first quarter of the current fiscal year.
It's on pace to lose $6.4 billion through September, barely has $1 billion in cash reserves and plans to borrow billions more this year from the U.S. Treasury, pushing its debt level to the maximum allowed by law — $15 billion.

Daniel E. Nation is president of Parkdale International, with headquarters in Gastonia, N.C.  The company operates plants in Galax and Hillsville and also has facilities in Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.

Everyone knows that the number of textile jobs in the United States has been in sharp decline for years.

Submitted by these members of the Virginia House of Delegates: Charles W. Carrico, Anne Crockett-Stark, Terry G. Kilgore, Joseph P. Johnson, James W. Moorefield

Many of us in the Virginia General Assembly have once again taken action this year to deal with the burden of a federal failure.
We have submitted proposed legislation concerning illegal immigration — a growing problem in the commonwealth.
The fact is that illegal immigration costs the average American taxpayer $1,117 per year, and costs Virginia nearly $2 billion per year.