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Column by Frank Nolen Submit guest columns: [email protected] In 2007 the General Assembly passed legislation that greatly reduced the ability of the State Corporation Commission (SCC) to set just and reasonable electric rates. The result has been a 60 percent increase in the electric rates paid by customers of the Appalachian Power Company and…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “For to the snow He says, ‘Fall on the earth,’ And to the downpour and the rain, ‘Be strong.’” – Job 37:6 (NASB) Snow, especially when it piles up, complicates our lives at the same time that it simplifies. We should welcome the interruptions that…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Eastern Mennonite University men’s basketball team is NCAA Tournament-bound for the first time in school history. The Royals (22-4) will also serve as hosts for a pool of games on opening weekend. EMU will play Centre College (Danville, Kent.) in the first round on Friday. Centre was 18-8…
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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] How’s business? You know, at your store. You say you don’t own a store. Sure you do. You and I own a whole chain of stores clear across the Commonwealth. I know that they are sometimes easy to overlook. They are small and we tend to…
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Why are our local school systems going to a job fair when they’re cutting jobs? Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It seems counterintuitive at first glance – to have a job fair to recruit potential new employees when the economic reality that you’re facing has you considering deep and painful cuts to staff….
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Column by Carl Larsen Submit a review: [email protected] Why would Martin Scorsese, probably the world’s most-respected film director, give away the mystery to his latest movie in the very first scene? If you pick up that clue to “Shutter Island,” currently playing at the Regal Staunton Mall Cinema, you’ll just sit there for the…
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Column by Chris DeWald Submit guest columns: [email protected] Neurofeedback is a technique in which the brain is trained to help improve its ability to regulate all bodily functions and to take care of itself. When the brain is not functioning well, evidence of this often shows up in the EEG (electroencephalogram). By challenging the…
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Staff Report AFPBusiness.com AugustaFreePress.com editor Chris Graham appeared on WINA’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot on Tuesday to talk about the controversy over the firing of Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce president and CEO Ben Carter. You can listen to the interview here courtesy the Charlottesville Podcasting Network. Graham was interviewed on Wednesday…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s another report bound to collect dust on a forgotten bookshelf. That’s the cynic’s view of the latest and greatest Downtown Vision Report aiming at guiding whatever it is that Waynesboro is going to do to breathe life into its downtown. The people leading this particular Save Downtown effort…
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Author overcomes skepticism, builds net-zero residential development Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Stu Rose has an interesting authenticity to his musings on sustainability. The author of a recent book on sustainable living admits to being “a little jaundiced” when it comes to the buzz words that people throw around. “I’m a little jaundiced…
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