Feedback for 7/27: Defense spending cuts, reaction to fatal crash and jail...
Republican senators will hold a town-hall meeting at 5 p.m. Monday at the Half Moone Cruise Terminal in Norfolk to warn of looming cuts in defense spending. Dave Norman: Are they warning us about the...
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Forbes deems Vick most disliked player in NFL Forbes magazine declared Newport News native Michael Vick the NFL's most disliked player based on recent surveys conducted by E-Poll Market Research. Vick...
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Dismal Swamp's great value The Great Dismal Swamp was cited as a region that would be resilient to drought, rising temperatures and other effects of climate change, in a study released Monday by The...
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Student killed in crash A Mathews High School senior was killed in an auto accident just before 8:50 a.m. Saturday. Deanna Christy Haywood, 18, was driving eastbound on Route 14 in Mathews just before...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 5/14: Obama, war on Islam
Obama's re-election chances Peter D. Hart, a renowned Democratic pollster, recently said he sees the re-election of President Obama as about a 50-50 proposition. Commenters on the Daily Press Facebook...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 6/4: Reaction to the tornado
Thoughts after the storm has passed Reaction on the Daily Press Feedback page was expressed in the aftermath of Friday's tornado in Hampton. Among the tales of what happened was an anecdote about...
View ArticleFeedback for Sept. 23: Pirates gather, license plate readers, school...
Pirates aplenty, but no world record It was all hands on when the Mariners' Museum tried to rally enough rogues to break the Guinness World Record for the largest pirate gathering. Unfortunately, the...
View ArticleFeedback for Wednesday, August 21
Newport News Shipbuilding ends Medicare coverage Newport News Shipbuilding, now a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, last week informed Medicare-eligible retirees — those ages 65 and older —...
View ArticleFeedback for Friday, Oct. 14.
Today and Saturday, Feedback will turn to social media for a wider variety of views on the stories we publish every day. Some of what readers were talking about on our Facebook page this week: An...
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Scott pushes for reduced minimum sentences U.S. Rep. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, D-Newport News, is helping to lead a bipartisan effort to reduce minimum sentences for nonviolent drug crimes, which he...
View ArticleFeedback for Saturday, August 4
In pursuit of pastry record Hampton resident Mike Leonard, 37, will attempt to break the Guinness World Record for eating the most jam-filled doughnuts in less than three minutes Saturday, all while...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 11/11: Ford christening, Veterans Day, false police...
Ford christened The Navy's newest aircraft carrier, the Gerald R. Ford, was christened in a ceremony Saturday at Newport News Shipbuilding. Rainy Gutters (Brett Brown): Another 4.5 acres of sovereign...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 2/4: Local groundhog, What-A-Burger and Jerry...
NN's Groundhog Day The Virginia Living Museum groundhog, the official one forecasting weather for Hampton Roads, saw his shadow on a sunny Saturday and so determined the region will see six more weeks...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 8/16: Isle of Wight shooting, same-sex military...
Shooting in Isle of Wight James William Wallace, 31 – known as Jamie to his friends and family – died last Friday afternoon at Riverside Hospital in Newport News after being shot in the shoulder,...
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Komen caves in The Susan G. Komen foundation said Friday it was reversing a decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood. • Stephanie Belvin Hopson: Of course they are! Who didn't see that coming?...
View ArticleFeedback for May 26: Exoneration, criticism, surveillance
Wrongfully convicted After the Virginia Supreme Court exonerated a James City County man who had been convicted of a 1978 rape, readers reacted on the Daily Press Facebook page. • Bobby Jankovic: I...
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Museum woes The Virginia Living Museum could close if it doesn't secure additional funding or avoid costs over the next year or two, according to Page Hayhurst, the museum's executive director....
View ArticleFacebook Feedback from Daily Press readers for Saturday, Dec. 9
'Nervous situation' Public reaction to Thursday's Virginia Tech shooting continued Friday on social media and elsewhere, including tributes to the police officer killed by the gunman. Anxiety carried...
View ArticleFeedback for Friday, May 4
Shootings in NN Two men were shot in Newport News' Southeast Community on Wednesday, following a homicide earlier in the day. The Daily Press published a photo that included the body covered with a...
View ArticleDaily Press Feedback for 11/22: Virus decimates dolphins, transitional...
Virus hurts dolphin stocks The deadliest morbillivirus epidemic on record, which decimated stocks of bottlenose dolphins off Virginia all summer, has reached Florida as herds migrate south. Billy...
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