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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Since my time as your governor,” Jim Gilmore writes in a fundraising letter that went out last week, “I have routinely been vilified by the biased liberal media, by the state Democratic Party and even by the liberal tax-and-spend members of my own party. Why? Because I promised…
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Story by Edward Tutwiler “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot Looking backwards on missed opportunities…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College is one of the best colleges and universities in the Southeast, according to The Princeton Review. The New York City-based education services company selected Bridgewater as one of 139 institutions it recommends in its “Best in the Southeast” section on its website feature, 2009 Best Colleges: Region by…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Poor Mike. Our sales manager is a hardcore Republican. Makes life kinda tough working for the area’s progressive news source. So Mike walks back to my office this afternoon after getting off the phone with a local GOP friend (actually a friend of both of ours – hey, I can…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Even grading on a curve, Shenandoah Valley legislators didn’t score well on the Virginia League of Conservation Voters annual Legislative Conservation Scorecard released yesterday. The scorecard, based on a series of votes on conservation issues in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly session tracked by the League, rated each of the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Five years ago, OK, as recently as a couple of months ago, we were all convinced that American manufacturing was a thing of the past. We can’t compete with Mexico, with China, where labor costs are lower, where goods can be shipped out at much lower unit prices…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College is the recipient of a $189,139 support grant from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. The 2008 year-end distribution grant will benefit the college’s operating budget, student scholarships, undergraduate research and other projects and programs on campus.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m guessing Stephen Colbert and Charlie Rose didn’t get the memo that Jim Webb is out of the VP Sweepstakes. The Virginia Democratic senator will be double-dipping tonight on the late-night TV circuit. Webb will appear on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central at 11:30 p.m., and on “Charlie Rose”…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine has some ideas for saving state taxpayer money in this day and age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Kaine announced yesterday a telework initiative for 120 employees in his Cabinet and in the governor’s office and a directive to all state agencies to consider ways to improve and expand…
