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Facebook Video shot by AFP editor Chris Graham of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine playing harmonica on a bluegrass tune at the Labor Day parade in Buena Vista on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. Length: 0:22.

Facebook Video shot by AFP editor Chris Graham of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine playing harmonica on a bluegrass tune at the Labor Day parade in Buena Vista on Monday, Sept. 7, 2009. Length: 0:22.

Another example of how rhetoric about taxes, fees and “failed government programs” stalls progress. That’s the focus of AFP editor Chris Graham’s Daily Rant. Key Point: The Greater Augusta Chamber of Commerce seems to want to shift the burden for paying for stormwater-system improvements in Staunton from big business to small business and residential taxpayers….

Today’s Daily Rant from AFP editor Chris Graham explores how Sixth District Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte talks out of both sides of his mouth on health-care reform. Key Point: “Another failed government program” is coming to Staunton next summer, and Goodlatte is all for it. Length: 4:13.

AFP editor Chris Graham muses on the direction – or lack thereof – that the revitalization effort in Downtown Waynesboro is taking, not taking, needs to take, and more. Facebook Video. Length: 3:30.

AFP editor Chris Graham debuts his Daily Rant on Facebook. Today’s Rant goes into the topic of low blows from the right aimed at the late Sen. Ted Kennedy. Key phrase: If you don’t have anything relevant to say, don’t say it. Length: 1:41.

Democratic Party attorney-general nominee Steve Shannon visited Downtown Harrisonburg on Saturday to talk with voters about his campaign. Videos posted to YouTube and Facebook. Length: 9:08.

Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds concludes his two-day swing through Staunton and Waynesboro with a walking tour of Downtown Waynesboro and a visit to the Waynesboro Democratic Party headquarters. Deeds talked to Democratic supporters in his headquarters visit about the work that needs to be done between today and Election Day on Nov. 3…

Phil Hamilton represents the 93rd House District in the Virginia General Assembly. (He’s also a Facebook friend. Sort of a friend of a friend, but if you were me, and you checked things out to the nth degree, you’d find that out, and wonder why I didn’t say something if I didn’t say something. For…

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Pat Nicosia has decided to forego her run for the Waynesboro city treasurer constitutional office in the Nov. 3 general election, but embattled Treasurer Sandee Dixon will have a challenger. Stephanie Beverage is back in the running for the post after falling short in her 2005 campaign. Beverage is the daughter of former treasurer Nancy…
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