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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia Beach Republican Terrie Suit is resigning from her seat in the Virginia House of Delegates to take a job with the Richmond-based Williams Mullen. “As lifelong military family members, we felt strongly that we should get involved in the community where we lived, plant roots, and advocate on behalf of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The threat of rain and wind associated Tropical Storm Hanna has pushed the organizers of the Chili Blues ‘N Brews Cook-Off scheduled for Saturday back a day to Sunday. The cook-off will be held on Sunday with gates opening at noon in Constitution Park in Downtown Waynesboro. The weather forecast…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s looking like Tropical Storm Hanna is going to take a track that will have its eye pass over the Hampton Roads area sometime Saturday, bringing some much-needed rain to the Shenandoah Valley, but sparing a more direct and potentially disastrous hit to the mountain west. “We’re not looking for…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Terry McAuliffe for governor, huh? In Virginia? Really? “I was a kid who grew up in Syracuse,” said McAuliffe, a former Democratic National Committee chair and key advisor to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, after speaking to the Virginia delegation at the Democratic National Convention on Wednesday. “I started…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know, considering how much a gallon of gas is costing us today, and how dramatically much less we’re driving these days, maybe it’s not such a bad thing that our General Assembly left Richmond last month once again without having come up with a solution to our…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Joe Biden isn’t the breakaway dunk that Hillary Clinton or Mark Warner would have been for Barack Obama, but to continue with the basketball analogy, he’s the back-to-the-basket post player who can rebound and play defense that every team needs to be able to win a championship, or in…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] NBC News political director Chuck Todd broke it down for us last night on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” Assigning leaners in the Electoral College to the candidates that it appears that they will support, the 2008 presidential race comes down to four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio and…
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Column by Jim Bishop “How the time flies, When I’m near you …” – Jerry Wallace ( 1958 ) Time munches on … and sure gives you a lot to chew on. That reality smacked up against my head again the other week as my good wife and I greeted another milepost on the superhighway…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign is trying to add 150,000 names to the voter-registration rolls in advance of the ’08 elections, the idea being that new voters will break Democratic in a substantial way and push what could be a close contest in the Old Dominion in November in the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Frank Lucente flip-flop on stormwater, explained Nice story in today’s NV that in part allows Frank Lucente to explain his flip-flop on funding for stormwater. “I think we can do the whole thing with what we’ve got,” Lucente told The News Virginian. He told me a different story…
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