by Ted Shockley | Jan 23, 2023 | Opinion
Inflation has burdened everyone. But it is especially jolting to hear how inflation has impinged on farming. The cost of growing our food has never been so high. The result is hitting U.S. consumers in the grocery store checkout lines. “This is the most perilous time...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 20, 2023 | Opinion
BY TED SHOCKLEY, Eastern Shore Post — Those who knew Randy Parks, the inimitable former Northampton High School teacher, would not be surprised at the after-death instructions on which he insisted. Parks, lovably gruff and a bit idiosyncratic, demanded that he have...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 18, 2023 | Opinion
BY DAVID MARTIN, Eastern Shore Post Where civility is practiced, people tend to get along and conflict is kept at a minimum. Lose that civility, that common courtesy, and the breakdowns begin in small ways but grow until society begins to sour. The use of the car...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 18, 2023 | Opinion
BY ROB BLOXOM, Special to the Post This is Rob Bloxom with my first Capitol Report from Richmond. The 2023 General Assembly began Jan. 11 and is the short, 45-day session. This is a budget adjustment year when the governor adjusts the second year of the two-year...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 17, 2023 | Opinion
Because of a countywide school scheduling change, Accomack County’s high school students will have to be in class each day at 7:15 a.m. — 15 minutes earlier than the previous start time. That seems very early for teenage students, especially considering the bus ride...
by Ted Shockley | Jan 10, 2023 | Opinion
— Gender reveal parties will continue to kill people. The idiotic practice of expectant couples using cannons, explosives, and airplanes to reveal the gender of their unborn child has been responsible for 30 or more deaths, including those lost in forest fires started...
