EMU alum receives top peace award
A 2009 Eastern Mennonite University graduate has received top honors in the bi-national C. Henry Smith Peace Oratorical Contest.
Laura C. Cattell, an environmental science and justice, peace and conflict studies major from Honey Brook, Pa., won first place with her speech, “Structural Violence in the U.S. Education System.” She competed against winners from other Mennonite-related colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. Read more
Another poll confirms gap is closed, but McDonnell still leads
Bob McDonnell’s lead over Creigh Deeds in the Virginia governor’s race in a new Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters is at five points, down from a peak of 14 points in the summer and seven points a month ago.
The key factors in the McDonnell lead, according to PPP: his 53 percent-to-37 percent lead among independents and his strength relative to Deeds among their respective party bases. The PPP numbers have McDonnell polling 96 percent of self-identified Republican voters, while Deeds is getting 82 percent of the self-ID’d Democratic vote. Read more
AFP InDepth | Examining Landes’ record on jobs
The 2009 state elections are going to be about the economy, for obvious reasons.
Steve Landes thinks this is to his benefit.
“The NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, who represent small businesses, they’re supporting me, they’re not supporting you,” said Landes, who works in the marketing and public-relations department at the DuPont Community Credit Union, at last week’s 25th District debate in Waynesboro, wagging his finger at Democratic opponent Greg Marrow, a Rockingham County optometrist and small-business owner. Read more
Rebels name new head coach
The New Market Rebels are pleased to announce that Corey Paluga has been named Head Coach for the 2010 season. The head assistant under Lucas Jones during the 2009 season, Paluga is currently the head assistant coach at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N.J.
“We always attempt to hire from within the Rebel family to ensure continuity.” says New Market Rebels’ president and general manager, Bruce Alger. “Corey brings continuity, character, and a sound baseball background to the Rebel organization.” Read more
‘Deeds Country Nights’ features footage, interviews from Greater Augusta
A new Creigh Deeds campaign video, “Deeds Country Nights,” includes footage and interviews from a local Deeds campaign swing through Greater Augusta. YouTube Video. Length: 4:34.
Holton endorses Deeds for governor
Citing his transportation plan and his record of bringing people together to get results, Virginia’s first Republican governor of the modern era, Linwood Holton, today threw his support behind Sen. Creigh Deeds for Governor.
After greeting commuters at the Clarendon Metro Station in Arlington this morning, Sen. Deeds and Gov. Holton spoke about the need to find a bipartisan solution to the transportation crisis, while protecting other core services such as education. Read more
President Obama, NATO Sec. Gen. Anders Rasmussen, talk with reporters after meeting
Hello, everybody. I just want to welcome Secretary General Rasmussen to the Oval Office. He and I had the opportunity to get to know each other at the NATO summit in Strasbourg, at which he was nominated and then selected as the new Secretary General of NATO.
I can say that, given his experience as a head of state, that everybody had confidence in his decisive and effective leadership abilities. That confidence has proven justified. In the brief time that he has been in NATO, I think he’s already shown himself to be an active and effective Secretary General, interested in reforming and renewing the NATO Alliance, and always rooted in the understanding that this is the most successful military alliance in history and the cornerstone of transatlantic relationships. Read more
Dinner Diva | Breakfast
As you start to get your breakfast on every morning, you will find yourself eating less, feeling better and possibly losing some body clutter off your “bottom line”. This is how we start our engines every morning…with breakfast. We all know that if we don’t get the car started in the morning, the car goes nowhere. How true this is for our own engines as well!
Keeping all of that in mind, I’ve got some groceries for you to get with brand names, so you can stock your pantry, fridge and freezer for breakfast. For those who live in different countries than the U.S., some of this stuff may be hard to find. But a good deal of it you will be able to find or make substitutions for, no sweat! Read more
State announces tax amnesty
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today helped launch Get Square VA, a program administered by the Virginia Department of Taxation offering amnesty to delinquent taxpayers who pay their back taxes between Oct. 7, 2009 and Dec. 5, 2009. Most delinquent taxpayers, business or individual, may pay back taxes to the state of Virginia during this limited window with no penalties and half the normal interest charges. The Commonwealth aims to collect $48 million during the amnesty period, and funds collected will go into the general fund to support education, health, and public-safety programs. Read more
Perriello pushes middle ground on health reform
Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is joining with a group of fellow freshmen Members of Congress in pushing for key changes to the health care reform proposals currently in the House. The group is urging Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer to adopt proposals, including deficit neutrality, interstate competition, tort reform, and the “congressional option,” which largely came from constituent feedback during the August work period. Read more
Press Briefing | White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Monday, Sept. 28
MR. GIBBS: I have no announcements, so take us away.
Q Thanks, Robert. Why does the President think a trip to Copenhagen is going to make that much difference? And what does he hope his appearance there will help?
MR. GIBBS: Well, obviously, I think he hopes that he can make a strong case for Chicago and America’s bid for the Olympics in 2016. Obviously any Olympics showcases the country that those Olympics are in and there’s a tangible economic benefit to those Games being here. And the President wants to help out America’s bid. Read more
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Posted on September 28, 2009 · 4 Comments
Want to know how ridiculous this has gotten? “DuBose has already confessed on video tape,” a commenter on the News Virginian blog who goes by the handle TakeMeSerious wrote this morning, before clarifying that the information came from “the victim and her family.”
“(T)hey say he’s confessed,” TakeMeSerious wrote, before further clarifying that the information about the “confession” came from “a friend of a friend of a friend of the family of the victim.” Read more
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