Columnists
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News columnists
What's on your mind? with Tom Angleberger: The New River Valley-based reporter answers your questions
Ben Beagle: The aging, semi-hysterical retired reporter rides shotgun with the greatest station wagon driver of them all down the rocky road of life.
Kevin Myatt's Weather Journal: Weather on Wednesdays and Saturdays -- and a weather blog for the rest of the week
From the newsroom with Michael Stowe: Read the twice monthly column by Managing Editor Michael Stowe and Editor Carole Tarrant
From the newsroom with Carole Tarrant: Read the twice monthly column by Managing Editor Michael Stowe and Editor Carole Tarrant
Spanish@roanoke.com: Ricardo Valdivieso and Yolanda Puyana cover the issues important to Spanish speakers in Southwest Virginia.
Sports columnists
Doug Doughty's Notebook Plus< is all Hokies and 'Hoos, inside and out.
Randy King's Virginia Tech Insider is all Tech, all the time
Doug Doughty's UVa Insider puts you behind the scenes with the Cavaliers
Entertainment columnists
Ralph Berrier Jr.'s Riffs listens to the regional music scene.
Lindsey Nair's Front Burner is all about food in the Roanoke Valley: On your table, in your kitchen and on the town -- plus a blog and recipes for everything in between
Gordon Kendall's Good Libations takes you from the history of gin to decoding winespeak to finding an affordable Champagne
Larry Bly has restaurant reviews and a recipe of the day
Lifestyle columnists
Gardening with land scape consultant John Arbogast, who answers your questions about lawns, gardens, plants and insects
Starshine Roshell, an award-winning journalist and overwhelmed mother of two, waxes sassy on parenting, kids, fashion — and everything else a modern gal loves to dish about — in her twice-monthly column.
Running with Jenny Kincaid Boone has tips, trails and local races with a longtime runner (and business reporter)
Biking with Dan Casey: Everything you need to know about biking in the Blue Ridge -- and beyond
Bill Cochran's outdoors is field reports, hunting, fishing and wildlife in Southwest Virginia
Jill Bowen has practiced veterinary medicine in England and Texas and has taught at Texas A&M. She answers all your pet questions in her weekly Paws & Claws column.
Liza Field's Field Notes is poetry in motion
John Goss' Astronomy from the chairman of the Mid-East Region of the Astronomical League and a former president of the Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society.
Libba Wolfe: In Libba's words: She's no gardening expert, but she's passing on tips from her experience and gardening gurus in Southwest Virginia.
Editorial columnists
Steve Huff is a family physician from Patrick County.
John Long is director of the Salem Museum and a history teacher at Roanoke College.
Linda Whitlock is an adjunct English professor who lives in Salem
