I was excited to see the sign on my way home from work. Coming Soon: Thai Flavor Restaurant. Awesome. Some may think that two Thai restaurants in Harrisonburg is enough, I tend to be on the complete opposite side of the spectrum, I think that every restaurant should be a Thai restaurant. What a wonderful [...]
Friday, December 22, 2006
Well, I’m taking a break from hburg news for a while. I’ll be gone until January 2, and may or may not have much Internet access over the holidays. Hopefully other contributors will be posting between now and then. I’ll check in if/when I can. As you may or may not know, Kai and I [...]
Thursday, December 21, 2006
The minimum wage in Virginia has been stuck at $5.15 for the last decade. Some Virginia Democrats are pushing to raise the state minimum wage up to a “whopping” $7.25 an hour by 2008. The wonks fully expect all minimum wage efforts to fail in General Assembly in 2007. Guess where Harrisonburg’s Senator, Mark Obenshain, [...]
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
As we reach the end of the year, I think it would be interesting to take a look back at the best and worst of Harrisonburg in 2006. I’ll post my list here as a jumping off point (and probably amend and add to it later). Please leave your Best/Worst lists in the comments section. [...]
Monday, December 18, 2006
To the delight of fans of capital punishment, VA House Rep Todd Gilbert (whose 15th district includes part of Rockingham) is working to make the death penalty available to more people. Currently the Commonwealth ranks number one in executions per capita with states that have populations of more than one million people (second only to [...]
Friday, December 15, 2006
This is where I make another one of my ill-conceived forays into opinion… After reading all the local media reports on yesterday’s SRI announcement, I could not find one critical, skeptical, or cautionary statement made in any of them. Like most people, I’m glad to hear the news that SRI will be creating new, high-quality [...]
Thursday, December 14, 2006
A few small items today that I can’t really justify making separate posts for… Saw last night on WHSV (no link) that Harrisonburg Comcast (ex-Adelphia) customers can expect an approximate 5 percent rate increase on their cable bills starting in January. Rate hikes were announced last month for larger DMAs. I guess they figure since [...]
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
I think there’s a bit of confusion over the “high tech firms” moving to (or expanding operations in) H’burg. I’ll admit it, I confused two companies, SRI (Stanford Research Institute), a college-based non-profit R&D company, and SI International, an IT firm that has contracts with the federal government. In case you made the same mistake [...]
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
The DNR has, in the last two days, exceeded their normal level of ridiculous misunderstanding of important world events. In fact, these last two house editorials, Global Not-So-Warming and Inept and Ungracious, may well give them a head start on meeting their quota of ridiculous tripe for the upcoming year. Today’s selection, about global warming, [...]
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street.
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide.
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
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