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About 200 marchers joined about 200 to 300 hundred sidewalk protesters at a four-corner intersection in Christiansburg, joining in the April 5th HANDS OFF protests that were happening in droves across the country. The energy was high. For two hours, there was megaphone speakers, cheering and chants and horns beeping in support. Organized by New […]
Is pardoning violent rioters who desecrated the Capital and assaulted and injured police the way to make America great? What about denying an election loss, refusing a peaceful transfer of power and scheming to overturn the election in order to retain power? What about Trump’s intention to “expand our territories?” Are we in the colonial […]
The following first appeared in the September 21st issue of The Floyd Press – The Grand Opening of the Floyd Democrats Campaign Office, located at 115 West Main Street, drew a crowd of supporters Friday afternoon. It included an open house tour, a meet-and-greet and ribbon cutting with U.S. Senator Tim Kaine, who is up […]
Following the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden decisively won the electoral college and more than 5 million more popular votes than Trump, the few Trump voters that I’ve spoken with seem incredulous that Trump lost the election. They deny he lost and parrot his baseless claims about widespread voter fraud, even though national, […]
The following commentary appeared in The Roanoke Times on June 15, 2020 – By Colleen Redman, a poet and writer from Floyd County. Who are the smiling people who posed at lynchings from the end of slavery to the 1960s? They are still here. Where are the churches that went as congregations to watch the […]
I’m suffering from PTSD. It began with the unlikely election of Trump, which brought about an inability to trust polls and voting machines at risk of being hacked, and has been triggered nearly every day since. For two years I’ve been unable to appeal to logic in Trump’s supporters. I’ve watched the dismantling of Democratic […]
-The following first appeared in The Floyd Press on November 2, 2017. “I’m running on a platform that starts with a foundation of revitalizing and rebuilding our economy,” said Anthony Flaccavento. The Abingdon farmer, author, small business owner and sustainable economic development consultant is seeking the 2018 Democratic nomination for Virginia’s 9th Congressional District. He […]
-The following first appeared in The Roanoke Times newspaper on January 17, 2017 HERE. To those who insist that I get over Trump becoming our next president, I want to state that it’s not going to happen. Never before have we had a president-elect so inexperienced, one whose election win was knowingly helped by a […]
Below are some comments made to WSLS TV’s Katy Love by members of Citizens Preserving Floyd County on the recent development that the Mountain Valley Pipeline proposed by two partner companies would not be coming through Floyd as had previously been announced. “We’re so happy that we were able to stop this pipeline and I […]
At least that would be my preference and is what polls are predicting. The Democratic candidate for Virginia Governor, Terry McAuliffe, called Floyd the “real capital of Virginia” when he spoke at the Friday Night Jamboree at the Floyd Country Store. I arrived late, after babysitting my grandsons all day, and missed his brief stump […]
Out of a sense of helplessness after the mass shooting of little children in Connecticut, I posted some links and quotes about gun control on my Facebook wall. I was surprised at how easily I got sucked into the polarizing dialogue about gun control and how often I saw the line “guns don’t kill people, […]
We couldn’t believe our ears. An elderly stranger stopped my sister Trish and me at the Nantasket Beach seawall and told us he had a song he wanted to sing. We agreed to hear it, but before he took us by surprise with his “Oh-bama, Oh-bama, how you can love,” refrain, to tune of ‘Oh, […]
