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Defense, retirees focus of Senate candidates

U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen spent time on Tuesday talking with voters on issues related to defense and veterans issues.


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Allen raises issue with defense cuts

Republican Senate candidate George Allen went on the attack on the Obama administration on Monday on a key Republican talking point regarding defense budget cuts.


Peter A. Bradford: DOE ignores openness pledge

Column by Peter A. Bradford Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net   Over the last half century, the government has repeatedly kept information secret because it would be embarrassing. President Obama wants the federal bureaucracy to reform this harmful tradition. The Department of Energy website proclaims, “From his first day in office, President Obama has pushed to [...]


Defining moments

   Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: freepress2@ntelos.net Let’s cut right to the chase. Last month tens of millions of Americans witnessed a president break his oath of office. Ten hours later millions of others saw and heard a vice-president do the same on NBC’s Today show. The only difference being that the vice [...]


Obama administration proposes $30B small-business loan fund

   Staff Report News tips: freepress2@ntelos.net The Obama administration on Tuesday released plans for a Small Business Lending Fund that will transfer $30 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program to a new program supporting small-business lending. The Fund would divert resources from the big-bank TARP bailout to community banks that have as their core [...]


Letter | The pols and the BCS

   Letter from Jack McClenahan, Lyndhurst Submit letters: freepress2@ntelos.net Well, it looks like the politicos in Washington are finally hearing the public outrage on a matter of significant importance. I am not talking about health care, record deficits, high unemployment nor an endless war in the Middle East. I read they are going to possibly [...]


Wolf speaks out on deficit-spending deal

   Staff Report News tips: freepress2@ntelos.net 10th District Congressman Frank Wolf today spoke three times on the House floor in opposition to a backroom deal between the Obama administration and Democratic Party leadership in Congress to create by executive order a commission to address out-of-control federal spending. Wolf, who has been advocating for what he [...]