Three hundred opportunities to get help with housing.

It’s a weekend morning and Terri Petrovits offers up a family meal while the Barracks Road Shopping Center fountain bubbles nearby.

There are three messages we can learn from John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate.

John McCain either doesn’t understand health insurance or he purposefully misrepresented the Barack Obama health plan.

This tempest in a teapot over whether Sarah Palin was called a pig shows just how low politics has gone.

On behalf of the children and teachers of Congregation Beth Israel Preschool, I wanted to offer a special thank you

We were visiting Charlottesville over the Labor Day weekend. I was crossing a sidewalk to the Farmers Market when I tripped on an uneven curb and did a nosedive into the street.

Since listening to Sarah Palin’s speech at the Repub-lican Convention, I’ve been bothered — but unable to put into words what it was I found so disturbing.

Talk about living with danger…

The harmonious verve of strongly sung gospel surges through the State Farm headquarters hallway leading toward the company cafeteria.

Simple folk know that Hormel, the food-processing biggie, offers a line of canned chili, some varieties of which are composed of spicy beans, but no meat. Isn’t that an apt description of Sarah Palin’s address to the Republican convention?

Ever since the collapse of Athenian democracy following the Peloponnesian War, tyrants have scorned democracy and sneered contemptuously at the people “You can’t handle freedom.”

I have been voting for more than 40 years, but this is the election of my lifetime.

As I read one of the letters on Sept. 3, “McCain’s choice of VP troubling” (The Daily Progress), I thought, “What the heck does having a fifth child, one who has a developmental disability, have to do with how Gov. Sarah Palin can lead us as vice president or president?”

With a nationwide mortgage crisis and overall general malaise afflicting the U.S. economy, Americans may be forgiven for ignoring economic events beyond our own borders.

I read with interest the opinions of the University of Virginia professors Paul Freedman and Lynn Sanders that characterizes John McCain’s choice of a running mate as “brilliant”

The presidential campaign has been filled with claims and counterclaims about “experience”: who’s got it, and who hasn’t.

It was risk that got us into the mortgage crisis.

At the Republican National Convention, an initial event was video speeches by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Alabama Gov. Bob Riley.

I don’t generally watch Republican conventions, so someone will have to tell me: Are they always that mean-spirited?

Having been a fan of University of Virginia athletics for as long as I can remember, this is probably the first time I have come this close to being ashamed to be a Cavalier fan.

John McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin was certainly inspired … politically inspired. The Republican Party has a history of choosing vice presidential candidates for political expediency without concern that the candidate is “a heartbeat away from the presidency.” (Remember Dan Quayle, Spiro Agnew?) And the “heart,” in this case, is 72 years old!

Congressman Virgil Goode’s statement that Tom Perriello lacks experience to represent the Fifth District is ludicrous. Perriello was in Sierra Leone during the “blood diamond” civil war and worked to forge a lasting peace treaty. He did this by working on the ground with various tribes with different backgrounds. 

The University of Virginia may have the right to ban all signs from inside its athletics facilities.

He came because the area was a good place to retire, and he stayed because he loved it.

While there appears to be general agreement that the country is heading in the wrong direction, the political primary results have shown that the campaigns are less influenced by main issues than by a wide range of unqualified public opinion based on traditional prejudice and emotional considerations.

Some people have raised the issue of experience and believe that Gov. Sarah Palin doesn’t have it and that Sen. Barack Obama does.

By the time you read this, we should know if Hanna will prove a damaging invader or a meek visitor.

When I sat down to listen to convention speeches on the evening of Sept. 3, I expected to disagree with many of the observations about America’s problems, and potential answers to them, offered by former New York Mayor Rudy Guiliani and Gov. Sarah Palin. 

I write to clarify my comments in The Daily Progress Aug. 30 story about the choice of Sarah Palin as Republican vice-presidential nominee (“UVa politicos call selection ‘brilliant’ ”).