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U.S. Senator Tim Kaine BY ANGELA JONES


Due to an increase in mail from constituents, on Friday, September 4, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine held a virtual discussion with several of the people who wrote to his office to express their dismay with the United States Postal Service. Most of the postal patrons spoke about not receiving their mail in the amount of time in which they have become accustomed. Represented on the call were residents from various locations throughout the state including the Hampton Roads cities of Newport News, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.


said


One woman, who she


was familiar with


tracking packages because she previously sent packages through eBay quite a bit, saw that her package had actually backtracked,


going from


Sterling to Dulles to Baltimore and then back to Dulles before arriving at her mom’s home in Baltimore. According to her calculations, the package took three days and 14 scans to


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reach its destination, which is about 45 miles from her home, in Virginia. Betsy Zeigler, of Newport


News, stated that the post office lost a couple of her bills in the mail and she had to pay over $40 in late fees and interest. Senator Kaine pointed out that this is a double problem because with the slow down in service, bills are arriving to customers later than usual and when the customer sends their payment, it takes extra time to arrive at its destination, as well. Lorraine


Piepkorn, lives who in Virginia Beach, is a


military wife. She said that she has relied on the post office for 23 years to keep her children connected to her husband, while he was deployed. The children would send photos of crafts that they made. “The post office affected my life in a tangible way,” Piepkorn said. Piepkorn’s father is now ill and is “literally on his deathbed,” she stated. Previously, it took 2-3 days for


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BY DR. JULIANNE MALVEAUX


What would you do if somebody walked by your house and promised to rob it the next day? Most of us would take every precaution, checking the locks, the door, and the windows. Some of us might weapon up, making sure we could defend our homestead. Some might also reach out to law enforcement, sharing the


threat with them. Almost all of us would take the threat seriously and make the appropriate precautions to prevent our violation. The 45th President of the United States has warned us that he plans to rob us. First, he placed one of his crooked cronies in charge of the postal service. Then he said that he would


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Vice Presidential candidate Kamala Harris BY ANGELA JONES The


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Democratic Party wrapped up convention on Thursday August 20


after appearances from some expected and unexpected speakers. It was no surprise that the party sought speakers like Stacey Abrams, former Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives and 2018 Georgia gubernatorial nominee. Abrams lost the race for governor and did not contest the questionable practices of the winner of the race, Brian Kemp. Kemp was secretary of state during his race for governor, when he canceled more than 1.4 million voter registrations,


according Opinion Get your ballot now to voting rights


advocates. Abrams is a typical rising star in the Democratic Party.


Other notable speakers during the


convention included Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Powell was not the only Republican to jump ship and not support the party’s nomination of Donald Trump as their leader. The former Republican Governor of Ohio, John Kasich, former New Jersey Governor Christine Todd Whitman, former Hewlett-Packard CEO Meg Whitman and former Congresswoman Susan Molinari of New York also ditched the Republican Party to speak at the DNC. Although


most members of the


Democratic Party seem content with Kamala Harris as Joe Biden’s choice for his running


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