Social conservatives aiming high with legislative goals

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Divorce reform, restrictions on abortion and continued funding for abstinence-only sex education. The Family Foundation of Virginia and the Valley Family Forum have a healthy appetite – but whether they can fill their plate in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly remains to be seen given the changes in the composition…

Breaking ground on the Silicon Shenandoah

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…

New ag lab, office in Harrisonburg a prototype?

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] OK, so they have a bigger building – a much, much bigger building. But the fanfare over the formal opening of the new Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Harrisonburg Regional Laboratory and Office is about more than additional space. “There have been a lot of concerns that people…

Breaking down the race in the 27th Senate District

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…

Breaking down the 24th Senate race

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham He had to fend off perhaps the fight of his political life in June with a party-primary challenge from Rockbridge County businessman Scott Sayre. With the change of seasons from summer to fall, 24th District Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger would seem to have if not the second-biggest fight of…