C-SPAN to feature Staunton author
Story by Chris Graham
Nicholas Patler is nothing if not persistent.
He hatched an idea for a fresh look at the politics of race in the administration of former president Woodrow Wilson over a period of a dozen years – the last three of which he spent researching and crafting his examination of the protest movement that challenged the segregationist policies enacted during the first two years of Wilson’s first term in the White House. Read more
The ins and outs of homeowner tax relief
The Top Story by Chris Graham
It sounds like magic. The state comes in and guarantees that homeowners aren’t forced to bear the brunt of the tax burden for local governments, and, voila, it is done, and everybody is happy.
Except for local-government officials, who have to figure out how to balance their books without access to a key source of revenues. Read more
Calling all Valley Democrats: Party having trouble finding candidates to challenge well-heeled GOP incumbents
Story by Chris Graham
There has been a lot of talk about the Democratic Party running a slate of candidates in the Republican-friendly Central Shenandoah Valley in the fall House of Delegates elections.
But when it comes to action …
“I haven’t ruled it out. My brother Danny and I have both been approached about running by different people,” said Mike Breeden, an Elkton resident and member of the Rockingham County Board of Supervisors. Read more
The cost of homeowner tax relief: Will the burden be borne by business, industry?
The Top Story by Chris Graham
What’s good for residential property owners is not so good for business and industrial property owners. Not to mention local-government officials charged with the responsibilities of providing public services and balancing the books at the end of the day. Read more
Why didn’t the feds let Chap talk? CIS, Petersen camp both claim politics at heart of dispute
The Top Story by Chris Graham
Democratic Party lieutenant-governor candidate Chap Petersen was supposed to deliver a brief talk to a group of new United States citizens on behalf of a nonpartisan lawyers’ group in Fairfax on Thursday.
That was before a couple of phone calls from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services led to Petersen being yanked from the schedule of events at the naturalization ceremony held at the George Mason University School of Law. Read more
Pinehurst revisited
Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers
JSpencerRogers@msn.com
The Pinehurst Trip is over, and after a week down there, it seems to me that there is something almost enchanted, at least in a golf sense, about Pinehurst.
It’s a place of convergence, like the traffic circle just outside of the Village itself, and all roads in golf seem to lead to, or at least pass through, this place. It calls to golfers. Read more
Eyes on the November prize
Story by Chris Graham
Every time that Weyers Cave Republican Del. Steve Landes ran into Democratic Gov. Mark Warner or House Minority Leader Frank Hall the past couple of months, he would hear a familiar refrain.
“Do we have anybody to run against you yet?” was the refrain. Read more
The Weicker connection: Warner, Potts refute Connecticut newspaper report
The Top Story by Chris Graham
The conspiracy theorists have been having a field day with the report in the Feb. 25 edition of The Hartford Courant that offered up details into how Virginia Democratic Gov. Mark Warner apparently helped to introduce independent gubernatorial candidate Russ Potts to former independent Connecticut governor Lowell Weicker and indirectly to senior campaign consultant Thomas D’Amore. Read more
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