Recession … or slowdown?
Story by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
University of Virginia professor Peter Rodriguez is avoiding using the word recession right now.
He’s one of the few people that I know of who is doing this, so I want to give him credit.
“My take would be that we have entered a slowdown,” said Rodriguez, a business-administration professor at UVa.’s Darden School of Business, in an interview with me for a story for our upcoming New Dominion Magazine, which is due out in stores and libraries on April 1. Read more
Forty feet – no problem
Story by Chris Graham
sportsdom@ntelos.net
Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with Eastern Mennonite University track star Chelsea Lawhorn. Show Length: 7:07.
[audio http://thenewdominion.podshowcreator.com/mediaserver/enclosureRedirect.mp3?item_id=6068BD89ADE7411EBEB849D5FB0E2E7D]
“I hope to hit 40 feet by the time I graduate.”
And so it is that Chelsea Lawhorn has thrown down the gauntlet.
The Eastern Mennonite University junior is already one of only 11 women in Eastern Mennonite University track-and-field history to pass the 37-foot mark in the shot put.
So give her credit for having done something special.
And she will take a league-leading throw of just under 38 feet into this weekend’s ODAC championships.
Let’s just say that 40 feet is doable for Lawhorn.
And actually, let’s say that anything is doable for a young woman who didn’t even think she’d throw a shot after high school.
It’s still a stupid stoplight
Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham
freepress2@ntelos.net
I wrote a year ago or so about the Stupid Downtown Waynesboro Stoplight.
You know the one. Sits there at the intersection of Main and Wayne. Takes forever and a daggone day to cycle folks through.
Everybody I know who has to drive through downtown to get where they’re going goes out of their way to avoid it.
Heck, I live downtown, and I drive around it when I can.
It claimed its first victim the other morning. Read more
Spend ‘free time’ playing leap frog with a unicorn
Column by Jim Bishop
“Time . . . is on my side …
Yes, it is …”
- Rolling Stones (1964)
Every four years, it happens: We get an “extra” day on our calendars.
That’s right. Today, Feb. 29, is Leap Year Day.
I’ve often wondered when those born on Leap Year Day actually celebrate their birthdays. One such local person is Caroline Murch, born Feb. 29, 2004. The daughter of Jennifer and John Murch, she turned 4 yesterday (her first three birthdays were observed on the 28th). Jennifer said they’ve kidded Caroline that she just turned 1 year old.
So, how did you invest this “extra” day given us? Work? Call in sick? Watch daytime television? Clean out the attic or garage (I’ll bet!)? Volunteer for a service project? Read more
Cirque du Soleil comes to Charlottesville
Story By Erin Gutzwiller
Acrobats, dancers, and musicians are all a part of the contemporary circus known as Cirque du Soleil. This entertainment domain was founded in 1984 in Baie-Saint-Paul by two street performers and has grown rapidly throughout the world.
Cirque du Soleil Saltimbanco is in Charlottesville through Saturday night as it continues a year-long tour of North America. Read more
Landes provides updates on legislative activities in Richmond
Column by Steve Landes
This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the Capitol Square monument, what was most notable happened inside the Capitol. Read more
Macacaman
Posted February 29, 2008
Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham
newdominion@ntelos.net
Virginia is going to have a vice-presidential nominee soon.
Just has to be in the cards.
I mean, Tim Kaine is all over the airwaves, for one.
Last week, the wife turns on “Fox News Sunday,” and there our governor is, Sunday morning, 9 a.m., sitting in studio. Read more
Filed under Blogs · Tagged with Stop the Presses