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Staff Report JMU sports: www.jmusports.com Junior forward Jalissa Taylor (Chesterfield, Va./L.C. Bird) recorded her first double-double of the season as James Madison (2-1, 12-2) defeated George Mason (0-3, 7-7) 62-50 in Colonial Athletic Association women’s basketball Sunday afternoon at the JMU Convocation Center. Taylor had 11 points and grabbed 12 rebounds, while junior guard…
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Hampton Roads native key recruiter for Monarchs Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia head football coach Mike London announced today that Chip West has joined the Cavalier football coaching staff. West becomes the fifth member of London¹s staff. His specific position assignment will be announced at a future date. A Hampton native, West most recently…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike London is back for a third stint on the sidelines at Scott Stadium, this time as the man in charge of righting the course of the wayward University of Virginia football ship. “I will make winning a priority, but also by doing it the right way, and also…
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Column by Jim Bishop Columns, letters: [email protected] I thought several times, including aloud more than once, “What are we doing in Virginia Beach the last weekend in November?” Each answer was a variation on the same theme: “We’re having a ball. Why didn’t we do this sooner? What an incredible way to celebrate Thanksgiving…
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Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) announced today that the Interior Appropriations Act of 2010, enacted into law on Oct. 30, restored a funding shortfall for the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, following Webb’s request. Sen. Webb highlighted the funding shortfall and pushed for a provision in the legislation in an Oct. 20 letter to…
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And it’s a small thing, because Waynesboro isn’t going to turn an election one way or the other all by itself. But my experience as the Democratic Party chair in Waynesboro the past couple of election seasons can be instructive nonetheless. It strikes me that I hadn’t even bothered to look at how Creigh Deeds…
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The House of Representatives voted 220-215 late Saturday night to approve legislation that includes mandates to insurance providers and consumers and creates a public option for the provision of insurance coverage. One Republican, Joseph Cao of Louisiana, joined 219 Democrats in voting for the bill; 176 Republicans and 39 Democrats voted against the legislation, which…
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Steve Shannon’s campaign for attorney general released new TV and radio ads today. The two ads highlight today’s Washington Post editorial, titled “Mr. Cuccinelli’s Bigotry,” which says Ken Cuccinelli’s election would be “an embarrassment for the commonwealth”. In its editorial this morning, the Post blasted what it called Cuccinelli’s “bigotry,” adding that , “If he…
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You’re Pierce Homer, the Secretary of Transportation in Virginia. For five years, you’ve been overseeing reforms at the Virginia Department of Transportation that have six in seven projects completed on time and on budget, nearly three times the rate of efficiency that we saw out of VDOT from the Allen and Gilmore administrations. You’ve seen…
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We’re going to have some Division I-quality basketball going on across the street from the AFP office this fall and this winter. “We’ll have 10, 11 guys from this team play D1,” said Ed Huckaby, the coach of the new postgrad basketball program at Fishburne Military School, which is getting its 2009-2010 season started on…
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