Bedford County Supervisor Annie Pollard came close to asking the most important question the other night about the spread of biosolids on farmland in the county. But she stopped short of it.

The clock is ticking on thousands of acres of important Civil War battlefields in Virginia, battlefields that would help future generations better understand the bloody conflict that divided America between 1861 and 1865.

While no one likes the heavy hand of government telling him what to do or how to do it, events do call for government to step in from time to time.

In the early days of the 1950s, when the economies of Japan and Germany were in shambles following World War II, Detroit’s automakers had a 95 percent share of the domestic market.

With the excitement of a historic presidential election as a backdrop and with a chancellor suggesting they could make a difference in the national outcome, students at Liberty University registered by the hundreds in Lynchburg to vote earlier this month. And they voted — nearly 4,200 of them.

The federal government’s $700 billion financial stabilization package started life almost two months ago as a fairly straightforward plan for the Treasury Department to buy toxic mortgages from at-risk financial institutions.

With the United States poised to turn to more nuclear power as an energy source for the future, the decision to at least study the impact of mining a rich uranium ore deposit is a welcome one.

When the rainfall deficit in the region drops to 13.5 inches below normal, most city water customers know what is happening. The Pedlar Reservoir is dropping to abnormally low levels for this time of year, a time when the reservoir should be storing up water to offset the effects of the summer drought. At the same time, the city has to pump more water from the James River to make up for that rainfall deficit.

At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month in 1918, the guns of World War I fell silent. The war that robbed Europe of an entire generation and simultaneously laid the stage for World War II just 21 years later was over.

A regional arts council for Lynchburg has made sense from the first public discussion back in June. Among other things, it would promote the arts and help publicize events, sponsor forums and act as an advocate for the community’s arts organizations.

Tuesday night, there shouldn’t have been a single American who wasn’t proud of his country when Barack Hussein Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States.

Growth in Bedford County is fine for real estate developers, the housing industry and for the county’s tax base. But what about the growing number of services that come along with it? Can the county afford to keep up with the demand of those services?