Daily Progress photos for the week of October 5th. 

Monday morning, back in the saddle

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

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.

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? 

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. 

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

For close to four years Piedmont Virginia Community College has used its viticulture and enology programs to school students in the ways of winemaking.

A Charlottesville man was slain early Sunday after a confrontation at a party apparently escalated into violence, police said. One other person was shot and two more were injured.

Charlottesville’s poverty picture looks bleak from within the walls of its public schools.

Multimedia: PVCC winemaking class

Like any other business in a softening economy, the Sexual Assault Resource Agency has been cutting back on expenses and nonessential travel.

Police are seeking a Charlottesville man they believe is connected with a homicide near the University of Virginia early this morning. Three other people were injured in the shooting.

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.

Central Virginia’s most urban high school and its most rural have something in common:

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. 

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. 

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

The chances of slamming your car into a deer just went up.

The conversation about how Albemarle County and Charlottesville will get drinking water for the next 50 years — and at what cost — has heated up since an engineering firm hiked a cost estimate by tens of millions of dollars.

“If you don’t have the money, it’s hard to live in Charlottesville.”

Barbara Williams spent her Saturday afternoon browsing jewelry cases and pottery pieces, hoping to return home with a few select items.

Albemarle County wants to determine the extent of bullying in its schools and ways it can be prevented.

Drivers who use the Route 827 bridge to cross the Piney River at the Amherst-Nelson county line will need to plan for delays beginning Tuesday.

Recess has a fresh face at Ruckersville Elementary School, where the ribbon was cut on a new playground this week.

I am so excited! I can hardly wait for Nov. 5. By then the election will be over.

Tom Cruise is one smoot.

I watched the vice-presidential debate with the hope that Gov. Sarah Palin would represent women well. While I will not be voting for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Palin, I think it is fantastic that a woman is running in a largely boys-only field. Seeing her do well and come out strong would make me, as a woman (not as a Dem-ocrat) very proud. 

Anaphylactic shock: Several weeks ago I didn’t know how to spell or pronounce it, much less define it. Today, I can describe what it is like to go into anaphylactic shock — and be kept alive by: