Ken Plum | The home stretch
Crossover has come and gone, which means the House has acted on all of our bills and is now taking up legislation passed by the Senate. Obviously, much of the news from Richmond has been dominated by talks of budget shortfalls and the federal stimulus package, but House Democrats have successfully passed a number of promising measures. Read more
Attorney threatening legal action regarding petitions, assessment worksheets
One is a bit of a fishing expedition. The other is basic First Amendment rights. And in Francis Chester’s hands, both are ticking time bombs aimed at March 11.
The Churchville attorney was at the Augusta County Government Center in Verona Tuesday afternoon to hand-deliver letters to county administrator Patrick Coffield and commissioner of the revenue Jean Shrewsbury related to the ongoing fight against the 2009 county property reassessment. Read more
Staunton police still searching for High’s handgun
They’re still looking for the murder weapon.
The .25-caliber handgun thought to be the weapon used in the 1967 murders of two High’s Ice Cream employees has tested negative, the Staunton Police Department announced in a press release Tuesday morning.
The gun had been handed over to police by News Leader employee Kathy Myers, who said it had been given to her late husband by detective Davie Bocock, who was leading the investigation into the murders of Carolyn Perry, 20, and her sister-in-law, Connie Hevener, 19, the night of April 11, 1967. Read more
AFP Local News Blog – Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009
- News: EMU president visits school group in Guatemala, Tuesday, 12:25 p.m.
- News: BC getting set for Alumni Community Service Month, Tuesday, 9:15 a.m. Read more
AFP Sports Blog – Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009
- News: Virginia Tech to host ACCHL hockey tourney, Tuesday, 5:35 p.m.
- News: Miss America to sing before JMU women’s basketball game, Tuesday, 5:35 p.m.
- News: Morgan is UVa.’s ACC Legend, Tuesday, 5:35 p.m.
- News: UVa. to honor 1984 Final Four team, Tuesday, 5:35 p.m.
- News: JMU softball duo honored, Tuesday, 5:35 p.m.
- News: Tech wrestler honored by ACC, Tuesday, 10:45 a.m.
- News: UVa.’s Courtney named ACC tennis player of the week, Tuesday, 10:45 a.m.
- News: UVa. to open women’s lax season against Virginia Tech, Tuesday, 10:45 a.m.
- News: Radford women down High Point, Tuesday, 9:15 a.m. Read more
Open Thread – Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2009
Share what’s on your mind – and find out what’s on everybody else’s. Open Thread is your community forum. Moderated by AFP editor Chris Graham.
New FMS superintendent learning the ropes
Rick Zinser wanted the unvarnished truth. “What is the perception of Fishburne out there in the Waynesboro community?” Zinser asked me after we were done talking for our interview, turning the tables, as it were.
Col. Zinser was introduced as the president and 10th superintendent of Fishburne Military School on Feb. 1. He’s new to FMS and to Waynesboro, but the self-described “sponge” is trying to soak it all in as quickly as he can. Read more
Chris Graham | Common ground
Waynesboro does have a vision, to hear Frank Lucente tell it. “Speaking only for myself as a council member and a citizen of Waynesboro, I have always felt there was a plan, and have always consistently worked toward it: ensure that the city provides the services of government in the most effective and efficient way possible, (and) have the lowest taxes of any city in our state,” Lucente wrote in a letter to the editor published in The News Virginian last week, defending the council conservative-libertarian majority coalition against criticisms in the hard-right conservative editorial pages of the NV that the city has been woefully lacking in the Thinking Ahead Department. Read more
Julia Duin | Kazakhstan backs off on religion limits
Kazakhstan, a key U.S. economic partner in Central Asia, has dramatically reversed legislation curtailing religious freedoms after the measure and the jailings and expulsions of two religious activists caused an international outcry. Read more
Jim Webb | Preserving Virginia’s historical and natural landmarks
One of my highest priorities in the Senate is to preserve Virginia’s abundant natural, historical and cultural resources. In January, we took a big step toward this goal with the passage of the Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which included three pieces of legislation I introduced last year to protect the Commonwealth’s large number of significant landmarks. Read more
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Sanford D. Horn | Rush to bad judgment
Posted on February 17, 2009 · 2 Comments
Obama wasted taxpayer dollars giving campaign-esque speeches in Elkhart, Ind., East Peoria, Ill., and Fort Myers, Fla., demanding that Congress pass the so-called stimulus package as quickly as possible to meet his self-imposed deadline. The rush was no doubt to avoid having the details reach the light of day as the American people would wretch in horror if they knew how their hard-earned money was being given away, thus mortgaging their grandchildren’s futures. Read more
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