Category: Perspectives
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Community Perspective: Revised Revision of Carols, 2021
A community perspectives piece by Tom Arthur
Retired JMU acting teacher, Tom Arthur, offers tongue-in-cheek carols for challenging times.
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Community Perspective: Hanging out with Stephen Sondheim
A community perspectives piece by Tom Arthur: The last time I was in New York, a former student asked if I wanted to meet Stephen Sondheim, with whom he was friends.
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Community Perspective: The Winter Coat
A contributed perspectives piece by Anna Rose Geary.
It was the winter of 1927 and twenty-two- year- old Nenzi, my mother, wanted a dressy coat to wear to church and to special occasions.
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Statewide environmental news roundup – November 2021
Several Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) protesters faced a judge in late October and were convicted on misdemeanor charges and fined. Both the State Water Control Board (WCB) and the US Army Corps of Engineers are considering whether to grant what’s called a “401” water crossing permit; this opinion writer from the non-profit Mothers Out Front said the WCB should not approve it. The non-profit Wild Virginia hosted an almost 3-hour citizen ‘public hearing” (because the WCB and VA’s DEQ refused to do so). An appeals court heard arguments in a lawsuit asking the courts to strike down key MVP permits; the court could issue its decision by the end of this year. All this as the pipeline is nearing completion despite hurdles.
Community Perspective: Reconsidering Books— Protecting Students and Their Right to Read
By Sandra Parks, NBCT, Retired Teacher Librarian
Recently there has been a lot of attention paid to censorship attempts in schools across the nation. Sometimes a ban is requested or demanded for whole lists or categories of books or sometimes an individual book, while some parents are vocalizing that they don’t feel they have a say.
Statewide environmental news roundup – October 2021
the views of interested persons regarding the permit application submitted by Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) to cross certain bodies of water along the project’s path in West Virginia and Virginia. In addition, the Virginia State Water Control Board will decide in December whether to approve MVP’s request for a permit “to cross [more than 250] streams and wetlands in Giles, Craig, Montgomery, Roanoke, Franklin and Pittsylvania Counties.”
Community Perspective: A Temple of Trees
Community Perspective submission by Bill Cale:
I love trees. In fact, I consider them my friends. When I moved to Harrisonburg, Susan and I considered only houses adjacent to forests. Yet, trees are under assault.
Community Perspective: Apparently, we were not clear before.
Community Perspective submission by Corey Chandler:
We have heard from City Council and members of the criminal justice system the exuberant amount of money the city and Rockingham County pays to house inmates in Middle River Regional Jail for the Department of Corrections. These DOC inmates are waiting for transfers to state facilities and are held at MRRJ in the meantime, at expense to both the taxpayer and themselves.
