Today's Opinions

I am 11 years old and live in Washington state. I go to Conway School in Mount Vernon. I am a young fifth grader.
At my school we do state reports, so, I chose the great state of Virginia, of course! We are supposed to write to some newspapers in our state, so I chose your town.
I am writing to get more information and artifacts from the state.
You can help by sending me stuff like magazines, key chains, maps, postcards, or any other artifacts that you think might be cool for my report.
Thank you for taking my letter under consideration!

2012 will go out as debt-ridden, violent, political abuse of power, sock it to the taxpayer and demand for stricter gun control.
2013 is shaping up as a repeat of the old wags. Political games, more taxes, spending control (a joke). So-called leaders in Congress call each other names, a $16.5 trillion deficit burdens this nation.
GOP wants spending cuts, while the liberal agenda is tax and spend and don’t worry about it.
In the middle of all this is Social Security and Medicare. Will it be there for the future?

2012 is over, but don’t worry — it’s not the end of the world.
Or maybe you should worry.
With some of the weird stuff that went on last year, we suspect that a lot of folks were getting the crazy out of their systems because they thought there would be no one to hold them accountable after the whole thing went ka-blooey.