Category: EDITORS DESK
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Tip of the Hat : Free Parking
Kudos to Town Council, Staff, the Middleburg Police, and the Middleburg Business and Professional Association for their close co-operation and mutual support…
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Wags of the Finger: Secret Sessions
Government bodies adjourning into “Closed Sessions,” tossing out the press, non-privileged members of its own staff, and the general public, and either keeping…
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Better Trump than Hillary? - Blue
“By the end of his first 100 days as the nation’s 45th leader, the wall with Mexico would be designed, the immigration ban on Muslims would be in place, the…
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ELECTION UPDATE #3 - RED
What an unbelievable mess! The insurgency within the Republican Party has succeeded and the outsider has won. The insurgency within the Democratic Party has…
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Council in the Limits - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! This article addresses a hodgepodge of issues. I included a few questions for you below. Please send the questions (and comments or…
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Elections, elections, elections - Hypocrisy
Elections, elections, elections, most of us are getting weary, myself included, but like many others it occupies so much of our thinking time that I feel…
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Citizenship and the Political Class - The Public Square
We once produced national leaders who deeply cared about the fate of our nation and its people, but not now. No longer can we depend on the leadership class…
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Time for 15 MPH
By Tony Wells The renovations in Middleburg have been long and tedious for our local community and shopkeepers. With an end in sight we can all perhaps breathe…
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Federal Water Agencies: The Environmental Protection Agency - Waterworld
In my series on federal water agencies, so far I’ve written about the Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS)and the Bureau of…
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Middleburg Bank
The financial press and local weeklies of late have been full of speculation about Middleburg’s oldest financial institution, Middleburg Bank, becoming part of…
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In Praise of Personal Service
As Town Council Member Mark Snyder explains in his column elsewhere in the April Edition of the Eccentric, no less than four of Middleburg’s seven Town Council…
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“Crisis” in “Higher Education” - BLUE
Commentary , Norman Podhoretz’s once liberal monthly gone cranky neo-right, recently described at some length, “The New Dark Ages on Campus.” Jon Zimmerman,…
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College Education and Cuban Cigars - RED
Mario Savio is spinning in his grave. Readers of a certain age will remember Savio as one of the movers of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement. Back then, liberals…
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Council in the Limits - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! My mission is to address your questions, get more people involved and to address periodic issues concerning Middleburg and its community.…
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Hillary Clinton, Fracking , Superdelegates and the TPP
Starting with superdelegates: The Democratic party has about 4,000 pledged delegates, who are committed to vote for the candidate who has won the most…
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Election Noise - The Public Square
The national election is leaving people dispirited. And there is good reason for it. Those at top are not bringing clarity to the affairs of the nation very…
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Federal Water Resource Agencies - Waterworld
June 5, 1976 was not a red-letter day in the history of the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau). The Bureau was in the process of filling their latest construction,…
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Water - Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! This article’s purpose is to address your questions, get more people involved and to address periodic issues concerning Middleburg and its…
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Fleeced - Blue
The current state of state of the GOP reminds me of nothing so much as the myth of Jason and the Golden Fleece. Jason, you will remember, accompanied by his…
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March Madness - Red
Nope, it’s not about basketball. As this issue of “The Eccentric” goes to press, March is about to end though the madness looks to continue for quite some…