WILL VEHRS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED FOR TEN DAYS for blogging uncomplimentary things about the economic situation in Martinsville, Virginia.

Now the Bacon’s Rebellion blog is going after Virginia Delegate Ward Armstrong, D-Henry, who’s the guy behind the suspension.

I’m not ready to call down plagues of locusts on Martinsville as part of some elaborate scheme of vengeance, but you can take it right from me, and some people in Tennessee, that it’s a bad idea to mess with bloggers:

Nearly 100 VF Imagewear, Inc. employees will lose their jobs by the end of 2006 as the company shifts work and adjusts to the expansion of another facility, according to a release from the company.

VF announced Monday that it plans to move a “substantial amount of the work being performed” in the Distribution Center on Joseph Martin Highway in Martinsville to accommodate an expansion at an existing facility in Henning, Tenn.

“As a result, the Martinsville location will make a reduction in its current workforce,” the release states. . . . The two business segments currently distributed from Martinsville will be shifted to the Tennessee facility, including the Government/Public Sector and Services Sector, according to the release.

Just a word to the wise!