
Big money in 24th race
Story by Chris Graham Big money is flowing into the hotly contested Republican Party primary in the 24th Senate District – and it’s going out as quickly as candidates Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre can spend it.

Story by Chris Graham Big money is flowing into the hotly contested Republican Party primary in the 24th Senate District – and it’s going out as quickly as candidates Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre can spend it.

The Top Story by Chris Graham When gasoline was a dollar a gallon, it made sense to pack up the family and head for the hills to escape the higher real-estate prices of the city.

The Top Story by Chris Graham Agriculture is a $144 million-a-year industry in Augusta County. Not that you would know that by the way that it is treated by the county’s political leaders.

The Top Story by Chris Graham The Greater Augusta area is a bedroom community for Charlottesville to the east and Harrisonburg to the north – that’s a fact.

The Top Story by Chris Graham The Shenandoah Valley has a gang problem – this is what we have to assume, if only because this is what we are told is the case. We’re reminded often that we have seen gang-related murders here – three in the last five years. This in addition to other…

The Top Story by Chris Graham It’s almost an Olympiad away – but from the perspective of the people responsible for reducing point-source pollution into the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 is just around the corner.

Story by Chris Graham If you believe what you read in the papers and the blogs, George Allen got run out of Staunton last month – and by local Democrats, no less.

The Top Story by Chris Graham The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., were a wakeup call for those involved in the emergency-services community in the Shenandoah Valley. “The big thing that came out of 9/11 was the thought that, hey, we’ve got to look at our policies and…

The Top Story by Chris Graham Dickie Bell hates thinking that he might have been prescient when he raised objections to the proposed economic-development plan that was eventually adopted by Staunton City Council in 2002 that put the bulk of the focus of the city’s development efforts on the retail and tourism sectors.

The Top Story by Chris Graham Staunton residents are worried about the apparent lack of affordable housing in the Queen City. Don’t think that the candidates for the three open seats on Staunton City Council haven’t noticed that.
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