Thursday, March 19, 2009
- State News: Kaine announces results of proposed revisions to special education, Thursday, 5:05 p.m.
- Capitol Hill: Perriello applauds action on vets, health care, Thursday, 5:05 p.m.
- Local News: Another church break-in in Waynesboro, Thursday, 2 p.m.
- Health and Fitness: Yoga students take the Challenge, Thursday, 9:10 a.m.
- On Campus: GAO chief scientist to visit JMU, Thursday, 9:10 a.m.
- On Campus: Comedians in the crossfire, Thursday, 9:10 a.m. Read more
One more round on bike race
The April 26 Waynesboro Omnium bike race will go on as scheduled, but the resolution to the issues raised by Vice Mayor Frank Lucente regarding the downtown event did not come without more in the way of procedural drama.
“I think all the problems have been resolved, and I’m prepared to vote for this bike race, at least this first one, and after that, if that goes through, see if there are any problems with that, and then go with the second race,” Lucente said at City Council’s meeting Wednesday evening, which began technically as the continuation of the March 9 meeting during which the matter of the proposed closing of Main Street to accommodate the bike race first came up. Read more
Jeff Fife | An open letter to Valley UNC fans
Most of the Carolina fans around here are trying to figure out who they’d rather play in the second round, Butler or LSU. But as Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast, my friend.” Even though Radford is a 26. and a half-point underdog and a #16 seed has never beaten a #1 seed, the Hustling Highlanders should give the Tar Heels a little more action than they anticipate. Read more
Marrow, Noel outline campaign visions
NBC-29 reporter Matt Talhelm interviewed 25th House District nomination candidates Greg Marrow and Jim Noel for a story that appeared on the evening news Tuesday night. The full interviews are available online. The AFP transcribed the interviews to present the answers from the candidates side by side. Read more
Wednesday, March 19, 2009
- Notes from the Press: AFP editor a guest on WINA today, Wednesday, 3:35 p.m.
- Local News: Bridge replacement detours in Craigsville, Wednesday, 10 a.m.
- Local News: JMU psychology professor named a Virginia Woman in History Read more
Bruce Kesler | Examining the Top Ten Reasons for Obama’s health-care plan
George Bernard Shaw observed, “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” The major overhaul of American health care pursued by President Obama and his supporters is based on many false premises and is excessive and likely to do more harm than good. Tuning up and improvements already always dynamically occurs. Instead, ObamaCare is aimed at dramatically changing one-sixth of the U.S. economy in ways that are untested or tested and found wanting, primarily involving huge increases in government direction of health care. Read more
Community-college students meet the Wiz
Glenn DuBois was, of all things, booking a vacation on Expedia.com when inspiration struck. “I was quite amazed that I could go to one place to plan a vacation and shop and compare prices and shop hotels and create an account and plan an itinerary and pay for it. I was with one of my vice chancellors, and I said, Couldn’t we do something like that in higher education?” said DuBois, the chancellor of the Virginia Community College System, detailing the first step toward the rollout of the Virgina Education Wizard, a one-stop online career-planning resource for current and prospective community-college students in Virginia. Read more
The AFP Bracket Challenge
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Scott German | Cavs rally, improve to 16-0
The 14th-ranked Virginia baseball team stretched its school-record winning streak to 16 games with a come-from-behind 5-4 win over Marshall University Tuesday afternoon at Davenport Field. The winning streak is the longest active streak in the nation and the Cavaliers remain the only unbeaten team in Division 1 this season in improving to 16-0. Read more
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
- Local News: Waynesboro PD investing breaking and entering at church, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
- Local News: Pyles to host town hall, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
- Local News: Food Bank faces rising demand, Tuesday, 3:30 p.m.
- Local News: Staunton PD looking for missing juvenile, Tuesday, 9:45 a.m.
- Local News: Land ecosystems pioneer to speak at EMU, Tuesday, 9:45 a.m.
- Local Events: Asylum focus of talk in Charlottesville, Tuesday, 9:45 a.m. Read more
Report: UVa. fires Dave Leitao
A report on CBSSports.com this afternoon has Virginia firing men’s basketball coach Dave Leitao.
According to the report, the move was initiated with the goal in mind of making a run at Oklahoma coach Jeff Capel.
Capel, a Duke alum, was a candidate for the job four years ago while he was the head coach at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Leitao’s teams at Virginia went 63-60 in his four years in Charlottesville, highlighted by a 21-11 record and NCAA Tournament appearance in 2006-2007 that saw Leitao voted the ACC coach of the year.
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