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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] John McCain took some time away from his ongoing effort to make Britney Spears and Paris Hilton into ’08 campaign issues to talk about the economy today, releasing his plan for helping small businesses through the economic slowdown, though looking at it might make one wonder if Republicans…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen It started out as a really fun idea for a movie. With all the political hanky-panky in the past few years, the voting machine screw-ups and such, why not have an election so close that it comes down to one vote? Like, one anonymous, schlubby little guy…
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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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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Tom Perriello once again has the attention of national-level Democrats. Perriello was one of six Democratic Party congressional candidates added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s Red to Blue program. The DCCC is now assisting 44 candidates through its Red to Blue program with…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine is vice president, and Scott Sayre is your 24th District state senator. Think I’m reaching there? Let me take you where I am with this far-reaching scenario that’s been running through my head the past couple of days. Thinking things through, with Kaine as VP, Bill Bolling becomes…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about Tim Kaine being on Barack Obama’s VP short list is no accident. Just look at the timing. That’s what has Christopher Newport University political-science professor Quentin Kidd thinking there’s more to the firestorm of coverage on this short-list news than maybe meets the eye. “There are two…
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A Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall When I started writing this column a while back, I thought it’d be good for a few laughs, and every now and then something would be added to the political debate that wonks and readers are supposed to engage in. Turns out there is no debate. In the…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m a Unitarian – if I can say that going every so often to the local Unitarian Universalist fellowship makes me a Unitarian. Actually, those who know even just a little about Unitarians at all understand perfectly well how Unitarian that makes me. If you’ve been paying attention to…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign will open a Staunton headquarters on Saturday. The headquarters will be located at 100 S. New St. in Downtown Staunton. The location will open to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday with an open house running through 2 p.m. The public is invited to attend…
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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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