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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Three years and more than $3 million of architectural and environmental work in the bag, the developer of the Mill at South River project is waiting to see which of several irons in the fire will heat up first. It could very well be an effort to land a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Are Democrats trying to create smoke around the latest controversy involving Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli to make people believe that there’s fire? Or is the issue with a sizable donation to the Cuccinelli campaign in 2009 from a veterans group that appears to be anything but the charity that…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Gov. Bob McDonnell is to be commended for appointing a Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring to “make government simpler and easier to use, more efficient and more effective.” The 30-person commission made up of businesspersons and legislators has an ambitious schedule of completing its initial report in two…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wildlife Center of Virginia, the nation’s leading teaching and research hospital for wild animals, is releasing six Eastern Box Turtles that have been treated at the Center.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli’s curious move to subpoena the University of Virginia regarding research done by climate scientist Michael Mann has drawn the ire of groups including the ACLU, the American Association of University Professors and the Virginia Democratic Party.
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro didn’t go poof! into the night. There aren’t tumbleweeds running through downtown. (Not yet.) The sun did in fact come up this morning. That’s in spite of another electoral defeat for progressives at the polls in the City Council elections on May 4. Lorie Smith fell short…
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Column by Haresh Daswani Submit guest columns: [email protected] The general public’s opinion that the USA is the worst offender in carbon emissions might actually be misguiding. Nationmaster’s list of carbon dioxide emissions per capita presents otherwise.
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Column by Laurie Mazur Submit guest columns: [email protected] Forty years ago, 20 million Americans took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day. Their agenda was wide-ranging: pollution, smog, endangered species. But one issue—population growth—was seen as the mother of all environmental problems. As Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, famously remarked:…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] It’s a telling sketch. Local actor-playwright Ted Swartz plays a college student who comes home and tells his father that he decided to change his major from theater to pre-med. “I want to become a brain surgeon,” the young man tells his dad. The father, an…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Sixth District Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte was recently awarded the Taxpayers’ Friend Award from the National Taxpayers Union.
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