President, Webb, Warner mark enactment of New GI Bill

At George Mason University on Monday, Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) was joined by President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki, former Sen. John Warner, and student veterans at an event celebrating the enactment of Webb’s “Post-9/11 GI Bill,” which...

Holding the line at the pump

Up and down, up and down – that’s where gas prices are right now. “With five weeks remaining in the summer driving season, AAA expects gas prices to remain fairly stable,” said Martha M. Meade, manager of public and government affairs for AAA Mid-Atlantic. “Stability at the gas...

Staunton businesses looking to take advantage of sales-tax holiday

Mommy and Me Children’s Consignment Shop and Off the Wall Photography in Staunton are teaming up for an all-day event on Saturday coinciding with the annual state school sales-tax holiday. The event at the 1210 Greenville Ave. location for Mommy & Me Children’s Consignment Shop will feature...

News from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Monday, Aug. 3, 2009 - Press Briefing with Press Secretary Robert Gibbs - Remarks by President Obama and Kuwait Amir Sheikh Sabah before Oval Office meeting - Remarks by President Obama at George Mason University on the Post-9/11 GI Bill - Statement by the press secretary on the visit of President Mubarak...

State funds focus on disability employment

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced last week that the Virginia Department of Rehabilitative Services (DRS) awarded $500,000 in federal funding to 12 Employment Services Organizations (ESOs) with projects designed to increase employment for Virginians with disabilities. The funds were made possible through the...

A new class of landlords

As homeowners contend with a chilly housing market, many are turning to others to pay their mortgages for them – by renting out their properties. Through first quarter 2009, Allstate saw approximately a 25.3 percent increase in the number of Virginia homeowners switching to landlord policies over prior...

The issues, please

People in Wise County prefer to be on welfare, to hear the chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia tell it. Mullins made a comment to that effect last month, according to a report in The Recorder, a weekly newspaper based in Highland County, in summing up a story about a Wise County insurance company...

The Agenda | Tuesday, Aug. 4

A look around the Virginia and Valley politics landscape as we head into Tuesday, Aug. 4 … - Creigh Deeds continues his Deeds Country Tour. The updated schedules that we keep getting haven’t let us in on when and where the Creigh Deeds campaign will make it here to the Staunton-Waynesboro area,...

Voting trends and distracted drivers on today’s ‘Chris Graham Show’

It’s talk radio on the web the way it oughtta be. “The Chris Graham Show” returns with an interview with Virginia Commonwealth University professor Cary Funk discussing a recent study showing that despite recent voting results in Virginia trending blue, the political direction of Virginia...

RMH adds two to breast health navigator team

Patricia Cheeks, RN, MSN, and Libbi Fitzgerald, RN, have joined RMH Women’s Health Focus as breast health navigators. The RMH breast health navigator position was created in 2005 to provide help for women diagnosed with, or undergoing evaluation for, breast cancer. Annually, more than 300 women receive...

EMU forges ties with Korean school

A little over one year ago, representatives of two schools with similar values, including a strong commitment to international learning, gathered on the Eastern Mennonite University to get better acquainted and to formalize an agreement between the two institutions. On May 27, 2008, Hongnam Lee, principal...

Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report

As I return home from Congress for an extended work period in the district, I will be devoting most of my time to discussing health care reform with constituents and doctors. For weeks, I made clear to Congressional leaders that we should not rush a vote on health care. I have already met with over 150...

Earth Talk | Cosmetics testing

Dear EarthTalk: Is the “Draize Test” using live animals still used to test cosmetics? - Jim M., Bridgeport, Conn. The Draize Test was devised back in 1944 by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) toxicologist John H. Draize to evaluate the risks of normal short-term exposure to new cosmetics...

A Dad’s Point of View | Summer vacations are for parents, too

Remembering Chevy Chase in those summer vacation movies reminds me of the fact that most so-called “family vacations” are, at best, vacations for the kids and torture for the parents. I’m generalizing, of course, but most generalizations as well as clichés, have a strong basis in truth. I...

Dukes loaded for another title run

I thought it was a done deal. Redshirt junior Drew Dudzik was Rodney Landers’ backup in 2008 and got his baptism-by-fire when Landers went down in the first half of James Madison’s 35-27 national-semifinal loss to Montana, throwing for 70 yards and running for 88 yards, two touchdowns and a...

The Latest

Friday, Aug. 7 - State News: New online resources for teachers Thursday, Aug. 6 - Local News: 40th anniversary of Camille disaster this month - Elections ‘09: Wagner releases statement on Bolling’s absence from revenue meeting Wednesday, Aug. 5 - Local News: Harrisonburg traffic alert - State...

Mickey Matthews talks JMU football

AFP editor Chris Graham talked James Madison University football recently with JMU Coach Mickey Matthews. Matthews talks about his quarterback controversy, what the Dukes need to do to shore up things on defense and gives us some insight on where former R.E. Lee standout Dae’Quan Scott fits into the...

VMI QB tabbed Big South preseason offensive player of year

VMI senior quarterback Tim Maypray was tabbed 2009 Big South Conference Offensive Player of the Year in the league’s preseason squads announced Friday afternoon at the annual Media Day in Charlotte. Maypray, a psychology major from Madisonville, Ky., joined teammate George Handler on the preseason...