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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Would you support the adoption of some kind of universal health care system in the U.S.? As recently as a year or two ago, mention of the words universal health care in the context of the ongoing national discussion of what to do to address the growing…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic nominee Tom Perriello is talking about economic revival in Southside and Central Virginia. Perriello launched his REVIVAL plan for the economies of the Fifth yesterday at an event in Martinsville, which has the highest unemployment rate in Virginia, at 10.5 percent in May, and that was before…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is looking for a few good chili chefs. Chili chefs from across the Valley and Central Virginia are invited to take part in the second annual Chili, Blues ‘N Brews Cook-off sponsored by WDDI. The Cook-off is scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 6, from 11 a.m. to…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t realize it until after we talked this morning, but I’ve probably already met – at the least bumped in to – the new Voice of the Cavaliers, Dave Koehn. Koehn was in Charlottesville for UVa.’s basketball season opener with Vermont, a 90-72 win…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Photos by Chris Graham [email protected] XtremeFest ’08 was a popular destination on Saturday. Hundreds of residents from Waynesboro and across the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia took part in events at Ridgeview Park ranging from kayaking the South River to rock climbing to extreme biking and skateboarding to a rollicking pull-up competition and more. XtremeFest…
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Although it’s often mentioned as a possible solution to our energy problems, rail travel is never quite taken seriously.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Rising food and fuel prices are pushing more people to food banks and food pantries. Food distribution in the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network was up 25 percent in March over the same period last year. And through the end of the first quarter of 2008, the local food…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Legislation sponsored by Virginia senators Jim Webb and John Warner to designate a 175-mile corridor along U.S. 15 in Northern Virginia and Central Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic as a National Heritage Area passed the U.S. Senate today. The region designated by the Journey Through Hallowed Ground National Heritage Area Act…
