Earned media coverage and press releases that were not more suitable for What’s Up @ UMW
The University of Mary Washington is opening its third campus on Jan. 3, the school announced today.
http://blogs.fredericksburg.com/chalkboard/2011/12/16/umw-opening-dahlgren-campus/
In the introduction to “And So It Goes,” his excellent biography of Kurt Vonnegut, Charles J. Shields recalls an early conversation in which Vonnegut lashed out, with genuine venom, against such family members as his brother, Bernard, a man he had written about with great affection in his 1976 novel, “Slapstick.” A few pages later, Shields recounts an earlier incident in which Vonnegut, incensed by the remarks of a “smart aleck” theatergoer, invited the man into the parking lot and knocked him to the ground. These vignettes serve as early warning signals that the portrait we’re about to encounter — the portrait of a world-renowned humanist — will contain some dark and unexpected revelations.
Use heart, head when donating; The Free Lance-Star
The number of people dropping off donations or writing checks to Rappahannock Goodwill Industries soars during the holidays.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/122011/12102011/669763
A terribly tardy Yuletide suggestion from on a reporter the road in Gloucester, Virginia, late this afternoon:
U.S. voters do care what candidates believe; The Free Lance-Star
Political candidates and religion, by Mary Beth Mathews
MITT ROMNEY’S religion matters. And so do the religions of all the other candidates. Whether you like it or not, the American electorate still believes that there is a religious test for public office. Contrary to Article 6 of the U.S. Constitution (“no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States”), American voters have proven time and again that a candidate’s religion is a matter of concern–or at least, interest.
http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2011/122011/12092011/668575