Walmart’s decision to pull out of Blairs had nothing to do with Sunday beer and wine sales, and you know it. Neither does our lack of national chain restaurants. We are an economically depressed area, with high unemployment and low discretionary spending. The demographics and population densities don’t work for national chains. Thanks for the heads-up on your site of Fred Ingram’s next move. Many of us will oppose it on purely economic grounds because it will cost the county more than it will bring in.

In a county that funds its schools so poorly, we do not need more voodoo economics to push off changing a law that is actually saving the county money at this point.

I am not opposed to this issue being on the ballot — I support the community’s right to decide, but I am opposed to the deception that this will solve all of our county’s economic problems. The net result will be a wash at best, and a deficit in all probability. Thanks for your comments, and you’re right — we disagree.

First, in item 3, you claim that Virginia doesn’t allow alcohol sales on election days. That’s totally false.

Second, the economic benefits can be clearly determined by the fact that restaurants have no t located franchises in the county because of the lack of Sunday b/w sales. You’ve got to be naive if you think otherwise. Look at Walmart’s decision to pull out of the Blairs store.

One of the subjects near and dear to my heart is that so many Christians seem okay with blurring the lines between seeking power and serving God. This looks like a group well on the wrong side of that line.