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Op-ed by Al Weed and Bobbie Joe Gardner Earlier this year the Virginia General Assembly passed a bill requiring investor owned electric companies to notify their customers about the possibility of buying renewable power. In asking the utilities to do something innovative, the General Assembly has also given the power of choice to the utility…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] And JMU felt bad putting the ball on the turf a couple of times in a 31-7 season-opening loss at Duke that the top-ranked team in I-AA thought it might be able to pull out. Virginia is somewhere in the area of where James Madison is right now, but the…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Dayanara Delgado Najarro came to America a few years back for the same reason that my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents did back in the 1730s. The operative word here is opportunity. “I’m trying to get a better education than what I had and a better opportunity than I would have in my country….
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Staff Report AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on “Charlottesville-Right Now!” with host Coy Barefoot on WINA-1070AM today at 4:30 p.m.
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Crystal Clear column by Crystal Graham It had been a long time since I thought about women’s rights, particularly equality when it comes to pay. It certainly hasn’t been a deciding issue in this election – not for me, anyway. And yet Lilly Ledbetter sparked my memory when she talked Wednesday at a Michelle Obama…
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More from our Calendar of Events. Saturday, Sept. 20 Guest speakers, including several Virginia Indian representatives, artists and dancers offer perspectives on Virginia Indians past and present, Festival Conference and Student Center, James Madison University, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Info: http://web.jmu.edu/thegallery/new_page_1.htm. Volunteer Firefighter Auction, Waynesboro Fire Department, West Broad Street, Downtown Waynesboro, 10…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You’ve probably never heard the name Lilly Ledbetter, so you might think it unusual that Michelle Obama would go out of her way to talk about how “amazing” the retired grandmother is. “I know that there are many people here who didn’t know her story, didn’t understand the origins of…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] News Virginian editor Lee Wolverton and I agree on two things – well, maybe three. I’m adding one that I hope we’d assent to – that it was a pleasure to sit down a few months back and talk issues. Of the other two, I am certain – that we…
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Notes from the Press column by Chris Graham [email protected] AFP editor Chris Graham will appear on “Charlottesville-Right Now!” on WINA-1070AM in Charlottesville today at 4:30 p.m. to talk Virginia and U.S. politics. Graham will join host Coy Barefoot for a solid half-hour of politics talk. More on WINA at www.wina.com.
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