A trio of Democrats seeking office huddled Wednesday to talk among themselves about education, providing an evening’s respite from the health care wars but not from rhetoric beaten to a pulp by the raw might of partisan twaddle. The federal No Child Left Behind law is damnable (kind of), public schools are positively starved for cash, student-teacher ratios must be kept low and hang those accursed unfunded mandates.

Saxman praises Western State Hospital project announcement

Del. Chris Saxman will spend the final days of the presidential race accompanying former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee across Southwest Virginia and likely joining Republican nominee John McCain on a last-minute weekend tour of the Old Dominion.

The citizens of the 20th District have a delegate who did not spend all of his time at the General Assembly working for us.