Republicans are racist according to many Liberals. They think Republicans hate blacks, that is, African Americans for the politically correct, at least for now. That is the Liberal media and Democrat party line every time a conservative Republican criticizes President Obama’s policies.
The irony is that the Republican Party (GOP) was established to end the slavery [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
Coal for Electricity, A Good Idea?
The last Green Column considered the pros and cons of solar powered electricity locally. This column will consider coal.
More than half of the electricity produced in the USA comes from coal. Why? There are abundant reserves of coal in this country. The [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
For two months now we have been wrestling with a conflated argument, an argument that links reducing the national debt with slashing Medicare. Republicans are telling us that the national debt cannot be controlled unless we virtually eliminate Medicare for seniors. Their message is that we have to cut, cut, cut but as [...]

Perhaps the most important thing that both major political parties should be doing between now and next year’s elections is to help their local board of elections “clean up” their voter registration rolls. That was my advice to my successor as outgoing chairman of a county Republican Party.
As way of illustration, I mentioned that one [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
Solar Panel Installations in Our Area
Why are there so many solar panels being installed in our area?
Because the Tennessee Valley Authority has such an excellent program for buying electricity produced in this way. Solar companies can earn a profit installing and running solar panels here.
How are these [...]

The Green Column
by Richard C. MacCrea, Andrews Valley Initiative
rmaccrea1@gmail.com
Handmade in America
The Southern Apalachian region is one of the most culturally rich areas of this country. The Cherokee and Celtic cultures have blended with others to produce a harvest of beautiful arts and crafts. Our region is famous for this.
Supporting our local craft artisens is good [...]

Leaning Left
Jim Fitzgerald
The excuses are rolling in; a new one every few minutes. A Congressional district in New York (NY-26) which had been in Republican hands for 58 years suddenly turned blue in a special election last Tuesday. This had never been a swing district and in 2010 Chris Lee (R-NY) won re-election by over [...]

In a special election last week, a Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives, Jane Corwin, lost in what most considered was a blue collar Republican District in upstate New York. The liberal media is spinning this as proof that the majority of Americans are for Obama’s nationalization of medical care and against Congressman [...]