In the News

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Friday, July 24 – JMU business students tke first in Marketing Challenge Thursday, July 23 – Staunton City Council work session, meeting agendas Wednesday, July 22 – Man arrested in La. on Staunton sodomy charges – Waynesboro City Council work session agenda – Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda Tuesday, July 21 – Long-time…

News from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

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Friday, July 17 – Press briefing by Tony Blinken, national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, on the vice president’s upcoming trip to Ukraine and Georgia Thursday, July 16 – Press gaggle with Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton – Vice President Biden highlights Recovery Act progress in Virginia – Statement from the president on…

Thursday, Feb. 26, 2009

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– Sports: Groh completes staff for 2009, Thursday, 3 p.m. – Virginia Politics: Mims elected AG, Thursday, 3 p.m. – Virginia Politics: Webb introduces health-care legislation for military retirees, Thursday, 3 p.m. – Local News: Salvation Army in Staunton announces food drive, Thursday, 10:15 a.m. – Economy: Initial unemployment claims show surprising increase, Thursday, 10:15…

The battle for the heart and soul of the GOP

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The Top Story by Chris Graham   For a brief moment or two after the 2006 midterm elections, it had seemed that the Republican Party was perhaps going off its ideological moorings. The talk was reaching the level of near-clamor regarding how the GOP was going to have to consider retreating from the right-wing conservative…

An interview with Michael Badnarik

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Story by Steven Sisson Poet Robert Frost wrote, “I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.” But what about being a … radical conservative? That could be the best description for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik out there. Badnarik, 50, is a baby boomer – nothing…