I watched with interest Mark Warner’s speech at the Democratic National Convention.

The Russian bear is on the march again — invading Georgia and refusing to repair the damage caused, and also refusing to leave.

More jobs suggests a healthier tax base. Certainly the state would receive more revenue in income taxes, but job growth also indicates that healthy businesses are generating other revenues, such as sales taxes, that come back to the locality.

I am writing to take issue with a letter published on Aug. 11 headlined “Obama promotes class warfare.”

It’s obvious why John McCai’s choice of a running mate was made — to attempt to win some undecided supporters of Hillary Clinton.

I refer to the letter “War hero hopeful worthy of votes” in the Daily Progress of Aug. 26.

Consumers around the world hungry for grain.

America needs help, and it is time for someone to say something.

Who says there’s no good news?

Sense it in the music, feel it in the video, hear it in the book; Derek Perkins wants the beat of his life, the tone of his philosophy to come through.

Have we as American voters really become so cynical in how we decide whom to vote for that we believe the most effective method of raising oneself up is to tear our opponent down?

Shame on Mark Warner.

From the bottom of my heart, I want to thank all those who have been a part of my University of Virginia MERCI program for the last 16 years.

Three against one.

Seven deer — impudent impediments ignoring traffic’s horns — dined on carefully manicured landscape as the quick red fox sprang across the road, yipped a pup-squeak and disappeared into the brush.

I have to sympathize with the Barack Obama supporters who are so desperately searching around to find the personal qualifications and achievement that justify his presidency attempt (“Barack brings real hope to nation,” The Daily Progress, Aug. 24). His most significant achievement in life to date has been to become a lawyer, thus giving him at least equal qualifications as the more than 1.1 million others that the American Bar Association claims to be the number of qualified lawyers in 2007.

After reading the article Aug. 16 on Virgil Goode (“A Fight in the 5th: Virgil H. Goode Jr.”, The Daily Progress), I have but one question for: If Rep. Goode has such “consistent record” in Congress on the energy crisis, as he said, then why do we have an energy crisis?

Have you heard about the Connecticut kid who was so good, he was banned from the pitching mound in his Youth Baseball League?

I was frightened by a letter published Aug. 11 (“Obama promotes class warfare,” The Daily Progress).

Beware a partisan supporter’s endorsement of a candidate based on the thin air of imagination, starry-eyed interpretation of facts and inept analogy.

I was frightened by a letter published Aug. 11 (“Obama promotes class warfare,” The Daily Progress).

Beware a partisan supporter’s endorsement of a candidate based on the thin air of imagination, starry-eyed interpretation of facts and inept analogy.

Almost daily, we read of the appalling increase of childhood obesity and also of the ever escalating cost of fuel and taxes.

Voters in Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District must choose between two strong candidates. One, the incumbent, panders to our baser instincts, while the other appeals to our better nature.

The horn lies silent and the reeds are still, but LeRoi Moore’s music lives in the hearts of others.

Responding to the conflict between Russia and Georgia, Sen. McCain says “we are all Georgians.”

If you can expect a seven-fold investment on your giving, the Epilepsy Foundation of Virginia has seen a return of truly biblical proportions.

Barack Obama has revealed two very special characteristics both in his personal conduct and in the conduct of his campaign.

This past Saturday morning, Aug 16, saw the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport conduct its triennial Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting Exercise.

Thank you so much to everyone who donated food and money to the “Dinner with Andrew” food drive.