Chris Graham: The rest of the story
Column by Chris Graham
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Congratulations are in order to Phil and Ellen Winter, whose persistence in their search for information about the workings of the city treasurer office in Waynesboro led to their collection of dozens of pages of e-mails, memos and audit reports, an investigative report in The New Dominion Magazine, more reporting on the matter in the News Virginian, the defeat of Sandee Dixon in her bid for re-election as city treasurer, and recognition for their efforts from the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Continue reading “Chris Graham: The rest of the story” »
Rose Bowl or Bust!
Column by Jim Gordon
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Growing up in Columbus, Ohio, a young man who is a big sports enthusiast usually becomes an Ohio State football fan.
I was no different and since my dad was a graduate of the OSU Law School, he was able to get tickets to the Buckeye home games and once or twice a year, he took me to see them play before they started showing the games on TV on a regular basis. Back in the 50′s and 60′s, either Ohio State or Michigan went to the Rose Bowl almost every year, depending on who won the showdown in the final game of the regular season.
If the Bucks prevailed, everyone got together with their friends and watched the game on their 12″ black and while TV screens and my mom and I also enjoyed watching the Rose Bowl Parade, especially after more and more programs were shown in color and folks started buying color TVs in the 60′s. Continue reading “Rose Bowl or Bust!” »
The Pulse | Kaine team needs to work on its media strategy
A long-time friend in the local media who covered the Tim Kaine visit to Staunton last week with me for the News Virginian felt, shall we say, slighted at the treatment accorded him by the Kaine traveling party, and called me to get my input on what had transpired.
The media folks on hand, including Press Secretary Gordon Hickey, seemed to give the conservative NV the short end of the stick when it came to access. It was to a point where I left the impromptu two-reporter press gaggle at the Lowe’s in Staunton after an event which had the governor talking up energy efficiency feeling bad that I’d hogged the Q-and-A time after Hickey tried to cut off the session following my final question. Continue reading “The Pulse | Kaine team needs to work on its media strategy” »
Landes declines debate invite
Citing issues with fairness, Steve Landes is backing out of a debate invitation from the News Leader and WHSV-TV3 with 25th District challenger Greg Marrow.
“I’ve expressed my concerns of the editorial board – not being fair and balanced – moderating a debate between my opponent and me,” Landes told the News Leader on Thursday. Continue reading “Landes declines debate invite” »
More than a game
Story by Chris Graham
Sacco has left the building.
Never thought I’d write those words. I thought we had him for life.
Got him settled in Greenville, where the city boy from Chicago who used to take the subway to school could count the stars at night. Continue reading “More than a game” »
Stop the Presses | Don’t do this to me
My friends on the other side of Main Street are making my life difficult. How they are is in an op-ed in today’s News Virginian that cites a New York Times article and a purported Barack Obama 2008 endorser as raising critical points about the Obama-Democratic push for health-care reform. Continue reading “Stop the Presses | Don’t do this to me” »
Media General shows net profit in second quarter
Media General reported net income for the second quarter of 2009, and while the income number was modest, at $20.6 million for the quarter, it was a number in the black and not $532.2 million in the red like the second quarter of 2008 was for the media conglomerate. Continue reading “Media General shows net profit in second quarter” »
The morning paper revisited
Story by Chris Graham
“We’ve created a very strange situation for ourselves,” News Virginian editor and general manager Lee Wolverton said of the ongoing handwringing among us media moguls about what we need to do to get our industry back on track after a sustained period of losing print readers used to paying for the news to the Internet where people have come to expect information to be readily available for free. Continue reading “The morning paper revisited” »
The dust, waiting to settle
You might think that any credit being given out for the Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. fundraising effort that met with such success as to preclude the need for an infusion of city funds to keep it afloat would go to, well, the folks at Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. Continue reading “The dust, waiting to settle” »
More bad newspaper news
The News Virginian has laid off a newsroom staffer as part of a workforce reduction implemented by two local Media General-owned newspapers, according to an online report in the Daily Progress.
The Progress eliminated a total of six positions, including four in its news department. Continue reading “More bad newspaper news” »
Get ready to gorge
A mix of professional and celebrity amateur chefs will be dishing their favorites St. Patrick’s Day at the 10th annual Taste of the Town sponsored by Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc.
Irish music provided by Scruffy Murphy will serve as the backdrop for the food sampling, which features defending Taste of the Town champion Chris Faris from Avante of Waynesboro among the participants. Continue reading “Get ready to gorge” »
Chris Graham: Breakfast is overrated, anyway
Posted by afp on February 19, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Column by Chris Graham
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You remember Tip O’Neill, of course. Mr. “All Politics Is Local.”
What’s burning my buns today: an editorial in the newspaper put out by our friends up the street at the News Virginian that makes this nonsensical stretch. First to what should make sense to self-styled conservatives, in the form of the proposal by Gov. Bob McDonnell to sell the Staunton-based Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents. With a Franklin, Tenn.,-based company that already runs 10 facilities in Virginia among the possible interested suitors, this would seem to be a win-win – in that the service is something that somebody in the private sector already does, and does at least decently well; and transferring the management of the CCCA to the private-sector entity would take the cost of operations off the government’s hands and then also off the backs of hardworking taxpayers. Continue reading “Chris Graham: Breakfast is overrated, anyway” »
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