In the News

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– Event: Film screening to benefit autism group, posted Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. – Governor’s Race: McAuliffe gets union endorsement, posted Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. – Local News: DCCU selects Blue Ridge Area Food Bank a corporate charity, posted Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. – Capitol Hill: Warner joins in effort to get FTC to investigate scam warranty robocalls,…

In the News

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– Programming Note: Listen to AFP editor Chris Graham on WKDW Tuesday morning, posted Monday, 8:45 a.m. – Local News: Music Academy announces spring schedule, posted Monday, 9:30 a.m. – State News: Chopra named to White House post, posted Monday, 9:30 a.m. – Event: Travel Expo at SVRA, posted Monday, 9:30 a.m. – Event: Items…

Friday, March 27-Sunday, March 29

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– Local News: Traffic delays on I-64 in Albemarle this weekend, Saturday, 4 p.m. – State News: Prosecutors drop charges against McCain T-shirt scofflaw, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Community Bank begins food drive, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: VDOT road work schedule, Saturday, 4 p.m. – Local News: Staunton Police warn of…

Thursday, March 26, 2009

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– Economy: Gas prices back over $2 mark nationally, Thursday, 5:20 p.m. – Local News: Waynesboro man charged with witness intimidation, Thursday, 5:15 p.m. – Congress: Warner wins support for performance measures in budget battle, Thursday, 5:15 p.m. – Event: Spring Fling at Ladd Elementary, Thursday, 9:45 a.m. – Economy: Initial unemployment claims up again,…

The AFP Blog – Thursday, Feb. 5, 2009

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– Stuarts Draft man charged with murder for hire, Thursday, 6 p.m. – Miss America 2008 to speak at JMU on eating disorders, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – Family Foundation praises passage of marriage curriculum bill, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – White House announces formation of faith-based partnerships office, Thursday, 5:50 p.m. – Wagner picks up several…

‘Wake up, damn it!’

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For the uninitiated, Ralph Waldo “Petey” Greene told it like it was in his world on the Washington, D.C., airwaves on WOL during the late 1960s and early 1970s before succumbing to cancer. The ex-con, who described himself in his boss’s word – a miscreant, because it sounded more sophisticated – would no doubt be…

Waynesboro: And now starring … ‘The River City Radio Hour’

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Staff Report “The River City Radio Hour” returns Friday night at 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. with another installment of Matthew Warner’s How the Martians Stole Christmas, music from The Boogie Kings and the “Radio Hour” debut of Bufffalo Gap High School junior Aaron Crosby. Waynesboro Police Department Lt. Mark Kearney will serve as the…

Cap-and-Trade: The debate matters

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Op-Ed by Al Weed Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The Senate debate on the Lieberman-Warner bill to reduce carbon emissions was the first serious national recognition of the challenge of climate change. Al Gore’s Nobel Prize notwithstanding, until an effort to change our energy culture through public policy is made, the U.S. is…

GOP blocks measures aimed at reducing pain at pump

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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Senate Democrats failed today to muster enough votes to block GOP filibusters on measures that would have imposed a windfall profits tax on oil companies and offered tax relief to consumers feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Hurray. “It is a disappointing day when the Senate can’t work in…