Back when the debate over uranium mining in Southside Virginia was first heating up, one anti-nuke activist offered a prescient take on the raft of studies being readied for the proposed Coles Hill mine project in Pittsylvania County. Her read: Once you start bandying about a bunch of consultant-approved “pros” and “cons,” the pros always win.

Catching up with the news, post-holiday edition:

Catching up with the news, post-holiday edition:

Everything is illuminated once the votes are counted (with apologies to the author of the best-selling novel by the same name). What do we know now in the wake of Bobby Hawkins’ romp in the Sheriff’s race that we didn’t know before the election last Tuesday? Plenty.

Every election it’s the same: The people have spoken, vox populi, wisdom of the masses, democracy prevails anew. Some folks go to bed happy, others cry in their beer. Let the post mortems begin.