The New Dominion Magazine wins two VPA awards

Posted by on March 21, 2010 · Leave a Comment 

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The New Dominion Magazine won two awards in the 2009 News Contest sponsored by the Virginia Press Association. The awards were presented Saturday night in Roanoke at the VPA’s News Conference and Annual Meeting.

The New Dominion Magazine competes in the crowded specialty-publications division, which includes a total of 38 publications with circulation bases ranging from a few thousand to several hundred thousand per issue.

The ND won a second-place award among specialty publications in the special-sections category for its real-estate section. The spotlight award for the magazine was the third place in design and presentation, a category encompassing the editorial content, the quality of the photography and the design and layout of the magazine. Continue reading “The New Dominion Magazine wins two VPA awards” »

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The Rant | Talk to the hand

Posted by on February 9, 2010 · 5 Comments 

  
Video Essay by Chris Graham
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AFP editor Chris Graham thinks the Palin-haters were too hard on the former Alaska governor for writing herself some crib notes ahead of a Q-and-A at an event over the weekend.

What’s so bad about crib notes, Graham asks, especially when you’re trying to remember important points that you want to make?

The answer: absolutely nothing. Continue reading “The Rant | Talk to the hand” »

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The Rant | Spend, spend, spend

Posted by on November 27, 2009 · Leave a Comment 


Video Essay by Chris Graham
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We fancy ourselves a fiscally conservative country. Yeah, and then there’s Black Friday, a spending orgy that necessarily balances the books for our retail economy.

AFP editor Chris Graham joins the chorus urging you to spend, spend, spend in this edition of The Rant.

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What exactly does this mean to me?

Posted by on December 3, 2008 · 3 Comments 

Something occurred to me today while eating lunch and listening to an economics analyst talking on the TV about how car dealerships across the country could be affected by the bad news involving GM and Ford. I haven’t seen or heard a local car-dealer ad in months, maybe years. Continue reading “What exactly does this mean to me?” »

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Cavs hold on for win in opener

Posted by on November 16, 2008 · 3 Comments 

If Virginia coach Dave Leitao needed something to get his attention on his season-opener, he got it Friday night. “Obviously it was a little bit of a wakeup call,” Leitao said of the 111-103 win posted by his Sunday opponent, VMI, over national power Kentucky in Rupp Arena. Two Saturday practices and a couple of lineup changes later, and the Cavs still got all they could handle from the Keydets in a 107-97 win Sunday afternoon in the John Paul Jones Arena that wasn’t settled until the final minute. Continue reading “Cavs hold on for win in opener” »

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Whaddya think of the new-look AFP?

Posted by on November 13, 2008 · 7 Comments 

Tell us what you think – and offer suggestions as to how we can make the product better.

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Election ’08: History!

Posted by on November 5, 2008 · 3 Comments 

Story by Chris Graham
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Barack Obama will be the 44th President of the United States, in no small part due to Virginia, which voted for a Democrat for president for the first time in 44 years as it also elected a Democrat in Mark Warner to the United States Senate by a historic margin and will send Tom Perriello to the Fifth District seat in the United States Congress.

Obama won Virginia by 93,000 votes out of nearly 3.3 million votes cast, with 1,695,035 votes to 1,602,395 votes for Republican John McCain. The margin was 50.9 percent to 48.1 percent. An analysis by The Augusta Free Press shows that 11,000 votes of the working margin for Obama came from increased Democratic voter turnout in the Central Shenandoah Valley – in Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County and Harrisonburg and Rockingham County. McCain won those areas by a combined vote total of 61,758 votes to 37,790 votes, winning the counties handily while Obama won majorities in Harrisonburg and Staunton and improved 10 percentage points while falling in Waynesboro. Republican George W. Bush won the region in 2004 by a combined vote total of 60,899 votes to 25,616 votes for Democrat John Kerry, meaning McCain improved on the Bush ’04 vote total by less than 1,000 votes while Obama improved on the Kerry ’04 vote total by 12,000 votes.

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