Hospitals are facing a shortage of nurses these days. Kim Price can’t figure out why.

I’ve lived here long enough to have learned a few things about Lynchburg City Council elections.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — There was definitely magic in the night on Monday, as Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band rocked the Greensboro Coliseum to its rafters.

The frontier between humor and cruelty can be a narrow and treacherous place, the border often vaguely defined.

It was nearly two and a half hours into the San Francisco Opera Company’s filmed production of “Madame Butterfly” one night earlier this month, and still no fat lady.

I felt bad. Not only was I the person who had to tell Robert Flood that Kenny Ray Smith was dead, but I had to wake him up to do it.

A fellow named Gary Hall called me last week with an interesting question.

Even the middle of nowhere has to be somewhere. It all depends on your perspective.

What’s that you say, Senator Glass? I’m sorry, but you’re spinning so rapidly in your grave that I can’t quite make it out.

People sometimes ask me why I’ve stayed at The News & Advance so long.

The Rev. Martin Luther King could not have planned it any better.

The gallant but notoriously rowdy Gen. Jubal Early probably wouldn’t have liked this place. Too quiet.

Some people wear their hearts on their sleeves. With Mickey Fitzgerald, it’s on his ride.

They call someone who mistrusts and resists progress a “luddite.”

This time of year, nearly everyone is a friend of Rivermont.

Did you see the movie “Gods and Generals”?

If so, surely you remember Col. Joshua Chamberlain.

John Burnett’s position with National Public Radio is described as “roving reporter.” Which is appropriate, because later this week, he’ll be roving all over Lynchburg.

They don’t call it the World’s Oldest Profession for nothing.

You may have seen the signs, scattered here and there on roadsides throughout the Lynchburg area. “Please Stop,” they say. “I Want to Pray With You.”

You’ll notice that I don’t have an “O” or a “Mc” in front of my name. Truth be told, I’m only one-quarter Irish, on my mother’s side.

BEDFORD — Spend five minutes with Prince, and you know this dog is a killer.
A killer of stereotypes.

She may be a Star Fleet Admiral, but Linda Smith wants to make one thing clear - she and the crew of the USS Heimdal are not just a bunch of space cadets.