Stop the Presses: Behind the scenes
Column by Chris Graham
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Random thoughts on a beautiful Tuesday morning in the Valley, when I’d rather be outside taking an extra-long walk with the dog in the Tree Streets, winding down to Ridgeview Park before trekking back to the home office …
Not ‘free’ anymore We’ve made it past the 50-subscriber mark with as little controversy as I think was possible. One reader made a public display of dropping his subscription to the AFP Newsletter and even unfriended me on Facebook. (I was looking to send him a Facebook message suggesting no hard feelings. So much for no hard feelings.)
Another took to questioning the continued use of the word “Free” in our name. Then another reader pointed out that he used to read the Detroit Free Press, and it’s never been free.
The bottom line is, well, the bottom line, not that the vast majority of you didn’t get that when we intro’d the subscription plan last week. We can’t continue to commit countless hours to producing content for AugustaFreePress.com without something going toward our personal bottom line. Read more
The Rant: Let’s move forward, shall we?
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham is a leftist. That’s what the anonymous critics of the AFP’s coverage of the controversy around the firing of former Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ben Carter want you to believe by way of distracting you from what they’re trying to do to steer the Chamber back to being a front for their partisan interests.
The ongoing nonsense suggests that it’s time to move the Chamber forward from here, Graham suggests in his Rant.
The Rant: Let’s move forward, shall we?
The Rant: Competitive elections
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham wears his heart on his sleeve today. With reports that there will be a challenger in the Waynesboro City Council Ward C race, Chris lays it all out there – the ’10 elections in Waynesboro will be between two competing visions for the future of the city.
The Rant: Competitive elections (3:13)
Live Blog | UVa. vs. Florida State
Moderated by Chris Graham
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The AFP and ACCVirginia.com will be reporting live from tonight’s UVa.-Florida State ACC men’s basketball game.
The game is scheduled for a 7 p.m. tip. It is being broadcast on ESPNU.
Virginia is 14-9 overall and 5-5 in the ACC. Florida State is 18-7 overall and 6-5 in the ACC.
Editor Chris Graham will be blogging from courtside with score updates, commentary, analysis and observations on what is going on in the John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville and the world at large.
A-men
Column by Chris Graham
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I’m known to tinker, so when I went about the self-appointed task of tinkering with what a lot of us call the Lord’s Prayer, it should have come as no surprise.
I’ve long since gotten past being worried about being considered sacrilegious. I mean, I’m so Unitarian-Universalist that I haven’t even been to the U-U church in, what, a year?
I still have some of that Baptist in me from growing up in a straitlaced conservative family, so I have this habit from childhood of saying the Lord’s Prayer before I go to sleep each night.
It was one night recently that I decided, you know, that maybe I could improve upon the prayer. Read more
Debut of new AFP Marketing Solutions web ad
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AFP Marketing Solutions is debuting a new web ad today. The ad features Chris Graham detailing the different components of a typical marketing and PR strategy.
Watch the ad to learn more about how AFP Marketing Solutions can help you raise your profile. Read more
Trivial, indeed
The paper is getting caught up in city politics
Column by Chris Graham
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“(T)rivial inconvenience.” That’s how casually the News Virginian dismisses the concerns raised by parents of elementary-school students in relation to the half-baked redistricting plan being advanced by the Waynesboro School Board.
Trivial – that’s how the paper characterizes the issues you have with having your children changing schools in the middle of elementary school.
An “inconvenience.” Yeah. It will be pretty inconvenient for people with kids a year or two or three apart to take them across town to two elementary schools, to be involved in two school PTOs, to have to support separate school fundraisers. Read more
Steroids aren’t funny
Column by Chris Graham
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“Ever used performance-enhancing substances?”
My friend Eli. I’m sure he had an angle.
“Do M&Ms count?”
“Funny. And?”
I couldn’t think of any. Not that I’m morally opposed.
“Nah. I’m too cheap,” I finally settled the matter.
Which is pretty much it. Well, there’s that, and what good would it do me? Read more
AFP editor Chris Graham on WINA’s ‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’
‘Charlottesville-Right Now!’
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AFP.com editor Chris Graham joins Coy Barefoot on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!”
Chris and Coy discuss the top news stories in Augusta County, Staunton and Waynesboro in 2009.
A link to the podcast courtesy the Charlottesville Podcast Network – http://bit.ly/8fkVH5.
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The Rant: Appreciation
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Video Essay by Chris Graham
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