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As promised, here’s the Star Talk show that I did on Wednesday, August 25th. A special guest told a disturbing story about her daughter getting attacked on a school bus in the first segment, and then the phone lines stayed busy for the rest of the hour. I hope you enjoy watching the show.

Tom Perriello has been around the SouthsideCentral area doing his town hall meetings over the past week. I’ve got some “random thoughts” about how it’s gone so far.

The HalifaxTalk people who don’t like me and the ones who obsessively stalk me can read this too. It’s also open to people who want to know about WMDV.

It’s only going to get worse.

Have you ever wanted to build your own hotel and not have to pay for it? Move to Lynchburg!

This isn’t an article about a dysfunctional family. Today, I attended my first Regional Industrial Facility Authority meeting.

For a very brief moment, I was almost concerned.

$12,000 isn’t that much for Danville Utilities in the overall budget, but they’ve got a bad sense of timing.

Today was a bad day for my cellphone.

…proceeds to get one wrong. Oh well.

Every time I think the anti-uranium folks couldn’t go any lower, they dig deeper.

Danville has lost a great leader and a great person.

Well, at least his own version of history.

On Tuesday night, the Uranium Mining subcommittee of the Coal & Energy Commission held a meeting at Chatham High School where people could comment on the proposed socio-economic study. I was there for Star News to record the early part of the comments, and here’s a “random thoughts” article about what I observed.

Conventional wisdom says that the few weeks after a hard-fought primary should be downtime for the candidates as they rest up for a long general election run. That hasn’t happened in Virginia’s 5th District. Let’s kick off a series of updates on what’s going on…

So that happened. It’s over, yet we’ve only just begun. Final (?) thoughts coming up…

I’m not a doctor, nor have I played one on TV. That being said, I’ve got a dose of straight talk and thoughts that’s probably going to make a lot of people mad. I don’t care. Dr. Bruce is about to write you a prescription of random thoughts.

(Last update: 5th District Republican Primary – Update #2) Seven days to go until this election is decided is decided in the voting booth. Let’s do a quick update on whats happened in the last two weeks.

SouthsideCentral is one year old today! Thanks to all of our readers and contributors for making SC a giant success in our first 12 months.

In the recent mailer he sent out, Jim McKelvey tries to say that Robert Hurt is sorta like Tom Perriello. Riiiiiiiiight.

This time, the Crazy Crew of Candidates make their way to Liberty University!

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before…Jack Dunavant rams a resolution down the Hailfax Town Council’s throats. The difference is that he’s going for character assassination this time.

(Last update: 5th District Republican Primary – Update #1) Ten days from our first update, let’s see what’s been going on in the 5th District.

Any event that’s lasted for 36 years has to be doing something right. Let’s look at some random thoughts about the Festival In The Park…

Just when you think it couldn’t get worse for Henry County, Stanley Furniture announces plans to eliminate 500+ jobs.

This is a disappointing development.

Let’s get back into politics and see what’s been going on in the race for the Republican nomination for the 5th District House of Representatives fall election. We’ve done a few Food Chain!s before, but this is SC’s first straight-up update.

Danville Regional Medical Center seems to be willing to try anything to block Centra’s plans.

On Friday, Micah Robertson (son of Johnny Robertson) was convicted of trespassing on the property of Westover Baptist Church. After spending four hours covering the situation, I still have no idea what to think about it. Editor’s Note: Micah Robertson was not convicted of trespassing. The judge took the case under advisement for 12 months.

Dickey’s has been open for over a year, so it’s about time that I got there to eat.