Veterans Medical Transportation

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Attention Veterans: Starting October 1, 2025, the Central Virginia VA Health Care System will be discontinuing contracted hired car services for ambulatory Veterans. We will still offer special mode transportation, such as wheelchair vans and ambulance services, for...

Ellis Island, Immigration, and Common Sense

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Article by Mary M. Hatch titled “Ellis Island, Immigration, and Common Sense” From 1900 to 1914 America was booming from its second industrial revolution, mainly because of steel and manufacturing.  Ten million more laborers were needed – iron and steel workers alone...

True Christianity Versus What?

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Article by Mary M. Hatch titled “True Christianity Versus What?” I thought Trump holding his newly published Bible with the Constitution in the back of it was a joke with a look-a-like comedian doing a parody. It wasn’t. As a Christian, I was...

Tradespeople

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Here’s a Commentary by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the November 1, 2023, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “Let’s remove tradespeople from the nation’s endangered list”. We need to add a category to the endangered species list:...

Robber Barons

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Here’s a Viewpoint article by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the April 19, 2023, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “Robber Barons”. A Robber Baron is, “An American Capitalist of the latter part of the 19th century who became wealthy through...

President Biden

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Here’s a Viewpoint article by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the April 13, 2022, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “Standing fast”. Why I voted for Biden and why I still stand by him 1. First reason – I knew Biden would be a president that would...

Putin’s War on Ukraine

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Here’s a Viewpoint article by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the May 18, 2022, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “Behind Putin’s lies”. So much for Putin’s neo-Nazi bunk. Here are more plausible reasons Putin is annihilating Ukraine. When...

Roe v Wade

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Here’s a Viewpoint article by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the May 25, 2022, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “What’s the man’s role?”. When I first read the Bible verse about Jesus witnessing the Pharisees who were going to stone an...

Legislative Intent

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Here’s a Viewpoint article by Mary M. Hatch that appeared in the June 1, 2022, issue of the Mecklenburg Sun titled “From the founders”. Many times when state and federal courts have an issue with the interpretation of a law in a case, the courts will...