Thumbs up to the late Richard Tebbs Sr., who reacted to his daughter's cerebral palsy by helping, with his wife Audrey, to found the Anita Lynne home, now called the Star Community, in her honor. The facility, now on 145 acres on Broadfording Road northeast of Clear Spring, serves those with developmental disabilities. The Tebbs family's efforts made life better for many parents and children in this area.
Thumbs up to Jim Tolbert and George Rutherford of Jefferson County, W.Va., for their many years of service to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, fighting for equal rights and equal opportunities for African-Americans from the days of segregation to the present. The best tribute to them would be for a new generation to pick up the torch they've carried for so long.
Thumbs down to U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, for her criticism of the commutation of the sentence of Scooter Libby. She said, among other things, that "in this administration, cronyism and ideology trump competence and justice." On his last day in office, President Bill Clinton issued 140 pardons, including ones for a convicted cocaine trafficker, his half-brother Roger, and Marc Rich, a fugitive facing tax-evasion charges.
