Category: EDITORS DESK
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EDITORIAL: Visioning - Ask a Council Member
The Middleburg Council is gathering Friday evening, April 7, at 5:30 and again on Saturday morning at 8:30 for visioning sessions to discuss goals and…
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EDITORIAL: Citizenship - “A Path of Individual Progression” - The Public Square
Good citizenship takes sturdy belief in something beyond ourselves, and how to adjust to all that may be around us. But it also has to do with what is within…
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EDITORIAL: Florida Springs and Manatees - Waterworld
Last November, I attended the annual conference of the American Water Resources Association (AWRA) in Orlando, Florida. You may recall that I retired from AWRA…
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EDITORIAL: Middleburg visioning sessions - Ask a Council Member
The Middleburg Council is making plans to gather for a visioning session to discuss goals and policies. We are finalizing plans (and will publicize), but we…
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EDITORIAL: Citizenship - "The Seed is Sown, The Harvest Must Come”
The Public Square likes to think of the period from Halloween to January 1 as a time of gratitude first (Thanksgiving), then giving (Christmas Holidays), and…
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EDITORIAL: Waterworld - Water, Wells, and Wet
Have any of you fallen into a well? Let’s see a show of hands. I don’t see any hands other than mine. That’s right; the water guy actually fell into a well.…
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EDITORIAL: Tis the Season
The past year was, to say the least, “challenging” for Middleburg, its families, friends, and business community . . . with vicious weather and what seemed to…
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EDITORIAL: Nullify the Electoral College - Blue
Five American Presidents have moved into the White House despite their losing the popular vote. Three of them were, or in the case of Donald Trump, promise to…
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EDITORIAL: AT Least Excellent - RED
Democrats are highly upset about the recent presidential election and are frantically howling about the unfairness of the venerable and much-abused Electoral…
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EDITORIAL: Distressing Time to Be an American Scientist - A Scientist’s Perspective
The new administration has just announced a move that I find very disturbing as a scientist, and as an American citizen. The headline reads, “Trump team wants…
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EDITORIAL: Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! Last month this column discussed my experience and expectations with local shops (Buy Local!). I rued changes at Wiley Wagg, recently…
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EDITORIAL: Citizenship - and the Spirit of the Land - The Public Square
When The Public Square began 18 months ago, we did not know where it would lead. But we have seen how the spirit of our land has a great deal to do with the…
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EDITORIAL: De-extinction – Part2 - Waterworld
Since its inception, this column has been about water but last month, for the first time, I addressed a subject that was not water related. I’ve been…
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EDITORIAL: Thanksgiving
This year has been a tough on Middleburg, its family, fans, friends and business community. Weather took a heavy toll, from which both the Town and some of its…
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EDITORIAL: Christmas
Christmas in Middleburg, always a special treat for the Town and its friends and fans all over northern Virginia, promises to be better than ever this year.…
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EDITORIAL: Reconciliation: Fourteen Points
“You salute the rank, not the man.” Maj. Richard Winters to Capt. Herbert Sobel Dialogue from the TV series “Band of Brothers” Exit polls indicate that only 37…
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EDITORIAL: DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN
Like many people, your humble correspondent was surprised by the election results. Relieved, if not exactly happy, but very surprised. Congressional…
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EDITORIAL: Going to Mars, really?
The November issue of National Geographic has an extensive article about our plans to send people to Mars. Elon Musk with his rather successful Space X plans…
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EDITORIAL: Ask a Council Member
Hello Middleburg! I need your questions about our local Middleburg government – PLEASE send a message to letters@wp13.temp.domains with Ask: in the subject and…
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EDITORIAL: Citizenship - “He Not Busy Being Born is Busy Dying”
We are near a time of national Thanksgiving, and one of our greatest blessings is our unique status as the freest nation on earth. There is little in the…