It looks like the song “Stayin’ Alive” can help heart attack victims do exactly that.

Please accept my sincerest, heartfelt apologies for the inflammatory exclamations that recently pervaded our common area. It no doubt provided quite a start, as one does not often contemplate such delicate personal matters as those I addressed in the utterances made at such an extended volume.

Following the vice-presidential debate, on a radio news program I heard a political correspondent say, to paraphrase, that Joe Biden was intelligent, articulate and had a strong sense for both domestic and foreign policy issues … but that doesn’t necessarily win debates.

I am, I think, a pretty regular American — two kids, two cars — and I would never do anything to put my children’s future at risk.

Yet another example of federal deception has emerged from a congressional report involving FEMA and — even more shockingly — the Centers for Disease Control.

It is an outrage that the University of Virginia plans to spend its resources raising $8 million to build a “bubbled playing field”

We just finished commemorating — in many ways are still commemorating — the founding of Virginia, and the nation, with this year’s Jamestown Quadricentennial.

When will Virginia’s 5th District Rep. Virgil Goode, R-Rocky Mount, debate his Democratic challenger, Tom Perriello?

Virgil Goode has served us well over the years and can be trusted to look out for our interests.

The small, northern European countries described as “socialist” are not the utopian lands imagined.

The president should let the campaigning be damned and, right now, call Congress back into session.

Shame on the American public for looking the other way when confronted with the truth about Barack Obama.

Ken Boyd, chairman of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, is quoted as saying that “there’s no money on the horizon to do this [construct an Eastern Connector.”

Ken Boyd says there’s no money for an Eastern Connector. A more accurate statement would be: We choose to spend our money on other projects.

Those who worked at the University of Virginia hospital in the early 1980s will recall the original plan for the new hospital

Political realism is essential if the United States is to regain the respect of the rest of the world.

Overshadowed by the financial crisis, the campaign, the war and other news, a quiet domestic victory occurred last week.

I was disheartened to see Virgil Goode pull out of the debate with Tom Perriello, and to see that in fact there may be no televised debates in this critical 5th District race.

Declines in funding plus growth in costs are putting the brakes on the Eastern Connector — while Charlottesville-Albemarle needs better roads, more than ever.

I grow increasingly concerned that the hoopla and circus of the presidential campaign has diminished the attention given to the contest for the House.

John McCain, Barack Obama, et al.: Enough!

On a recent TV news segment, Barack Obama commented on John McCain’s apparently lack of empathy for teenage mothers.

I am a hunter, gun owner and sportsman. I received a pamphlet in the mail recently from the Republican National Committee depicting a giant hand reaching to snatch a rifle out of a hunter’s arms. The card warned that Barack Obama wanted to take away my guns.

Instead of destroying several softball fields in McIntire Park, why not place the YMCA swimming pool at the southeast corner of Melbourne Road and the railroad tracks with a bridge over the railroad tracks?

The Honorable Virgil H. Goode Jr., served 23 years in the Virginia Senate as a Democrat. He has served in the U. S. House of Representatives as a Democrat, Independent and Republican, respectively. Sometimes the extreme left chooses to misconstrue his position and attempts to distort his admirable record of accomplishments and exemplary character. These same people probably would support Rep. Goode if he were running as a Democrat.

The fact that we now know our area high schools’ graduation rates is only part of the story.

Who is Eric Cantor working for? His constituents or the High Rollers of Wall Street?

I encourage our local governments to leave untouched, unless to increase, those human services funds so essential to our community’s most at risk.

Regarding the letter headlined “World hoping for Obama victory,” published on Oct. 3 in The Daily Progress:

Defying his president, his leadership and the needs of anxious constituents, Virgil Goode has once again put Republican orthodoxy over all else. Mr. Goode twice voted vote against the Emergency Econ-omic Stabilization Act.

On Oct. 1, in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the Univer-sity of Virginia, there was a debate on health-care policy featuring a representative from each presidential campaign. John McCain was represented by Dr. William Winkenwerder Jr. who, starting in October 2001, served as assistant secretary of defense and leader of the military health system.