Share
Staff Report Democrats are working hard to add to the voter rolls in Virginia, and their efforts seem to be paying off. Registrations are up 10 percent this year in a number of Democratic Party-leaning cities and counties in the Old Dominion, according to a report in today’s Washington Post. The analysis showed that registration…
Share
Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A new poll conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University has likely Republican presidential nominee John McCain leading his two potential Democratic rivals in Virginia. McCain leads Barack Obama by a 44 percent-to-36 percent margin, and he leads Hillary Clinton by a 47 percent-to-38 percent margin, according to the Commonwealth Poll. The…
Share
Column by Chris Graham I figured the news was coming. “And I’m sorry that it’s bad news,” said Richard Parker, the interim general manager at WVPT-Virginia’s Public Television, who confirmed what I had been suspecting for the past couple of weeks, that my WVPT TV show, “Virginia Viewpoints,” had been canceled.
Share
The Top Story by Chris Graham More than 7,000 Virginia children were found to have been abused or neglected last year. Another 14,000 incidents of abuse and neglect never made it to the authorities for assessment or investigation. Not that you would know any of this from reading the papers or watching the evening news.
Share
Story by Chris Graham The numbers at the top of the page on Election Night in Virginia were nothing if not surprising. Republicans Bill Bolling and Bob McDonnell swept to apparent victories in the lieutenant-governor and attorney-general races, respectively. Meanwhile, GOP candidates were holding on to a solid majority in the House of Delegates –…
Share
Story by Chris Graham Virginia Republicans were a bit worried when they saw the exit polls that were coming in Tuesday afternoon were showing that George W. Bush would win the balloting in the Old Dominion by a slight three-point margin.
Share
I’m struggling to explain how a quadruple amputee ended up in Charlottesville after police say he shot a man in Maryland, then drove a couple of hours to Central Virginia to check himself into a hospital.
Share
The cross-country snowstorm that will dump a foot of snow on us in Central Virginia also impacted AEW’s plans for live TV on Saturday night.
Share
A foot or more of snow is in the forecast for Central Virginia on Saturday, which matters to UVA Basketball because, the biggest home game of the year is scheduled for, yep, Saturday.
Share
A group calling itself the Free Them All VA Coalition is pushing Northern Virginia Congressman Don Beyer to “declare his support” for the closure of the Farmville Detention Center, a privately owned and operated ICE detention facility in Central Virginia.
