Community Health Forum meets next week
The Community Health Forum will be focused a bit on the past, the present and the future at its May meeting. Read more
Childhood obesity focus of BRCC workshop
A workshop on childhood obesity has been set for Wednesday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to noon at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave. Read more
More of the same – pain at the pump, that is
The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded hit the $2.31 mark today, with the price at the pump in Virginia reaching the $2.21-a-gallon mark as the days count down to the start of the summer driving season. Read more
The 100 Percenters
All four Republican incumbents running for re-election in the Augusta Free Press/New Dominion Magazine reader/circulation area received 100 percent scores on The Family Foundation Action’s 2008-2009 General Assembly Report Card. Read more
Whack-a-T-Mac
No new polls on the Democratic Party gubernatorial race, but I’m guessing Terry McAuliffe is still comfortably ahead of fellow Dems Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran, judging by the attack ads being thown at McAuliffe by the Deeds and Moran campaigns. Read more
The Valley Campaign Trail: Curren in DNR, updates from Price, Marrow, May 26 green jobs event notice, June 2 Waynesboro meet and greet
Curren in DNR
An op-ed on the unemployment stimulus issue by 20th House District Democratic Party nominee Erik Curren appeared in the Daily News-Record on Monday.
You can read the article here.
More on Curren is available online at www.erikcurren.com. Read more
In the News
- Local News: Waynesboro Police joining in Click It or Ticket effort
- Local News: Ayers addresses BC grads Read more
Two arrested in Staunton murder
Two arrests have been made in the murder of a 20-year-old Staunton man whose body was found in Rockingham County last month. Brian P. Bingham, 21, and Justin M. Bindel, 20, were arrested in Jacksonville, Fla., on Friday, May 15, during a traffic stop, according to a news release issued Monday morning by the Rockingham County Sheriff’s Office. Read more
Main Street Muscle takes over Downtown Waynesboro
Main Street Muscle 2009 took over the streets of Downtown Waynesboro on Saturday, May 16. The event drew a record number of entrants to the River City to show off muscle cars from across the generations. AFP editor Chris Graham takes you on a video tour of the car show. Length: :45. Read more
David Cox | Getting and giving
Is this a great country or what?
In what other country can you lead a company into the pits, and still make a fortune?
Last Saturday’s Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined the story of executives of a bankrupted local financial corporation asking for nearly $30 million in severance pay. Read more
David Reynolds | O’s Tar Baby
Lyndon Johnson had his Vietnam. Jerry Ford had price controls. Jimmy Carter had inflation. Richard Nixon had you know what. Bill Clinton had you know who. George W. Bush tried to imitate a Democrat. And so in 2008 America decided to vote for the real thing. Read more
Latest AFP News
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Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
Posted on May 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
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