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You don’t have to win the national championship every week, football coach Lou Holtz says. You only have to be the best team in the stadium on Saturday. Terry McAuliffe is clinging to that right now. The same SurveyUSA poll that Creigh Deeds’ campaign manager is citing as evidence that the Bath County state senator…
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– Capitol Hill: Warner introduces bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing TARP transparency, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Webb backs Senate measure aimed at strengthening government oversight in mortgage, corporate fraud cases, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News: Kaine signs agreement with Germany on climate change, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News:…
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“I think, and some of you all might disagree with me, I think nuclear power has to be one of the options. I don’t think we can take coal off the table. In fact, we’re building a new coal plant down in Southwest Virginia, but we ought to make that the place that gets carbon-capture…
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Yeah, we’re jumping the shark alright. “I haven’t agreed with Chris on much lately, so we’ll just add this one to the list,” wrote Cliff Garstang, the vice chairman of the Augusta County Democratic Committee and a member of the Sixth District Democratic Committee, in a comment posted on Cobalt6, a local Democrat blog that…
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You want to know where Terry McAuliffe had me? You could say at hello. “You can’t keep cutting, and you can’t raise taxes. So we’ve got to get a new economic engine going here in Virginia, and we’ve got to get a plan going. Where do we want to be 10, 20, 30 years from…
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– Programming Note: Off to see Mark Warner in Staunton, posted Thursday, 10:20 a.m. – Local News: Recognizing mental illness in children and adolescents, posted Thursday, 8:35 a.m. – Sports: UVa. Spring Football Festival this weekend, posted Thursday, 8:35 a.m.
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As a current college student who will be entering the job market within the next few years, my lifestyle has been tremendously affected by the current economic recession. We as Virginians have a duty to help those entering the work force and others stuck in right-to-work states — we have finally been provided with the…
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The Democratic Party lieutenant governor field is now one candidate smaller. “As I have worked these past months to communicate my message to voters, I have also had an opportunity to learn more about the three colleagues who were also seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. While all three are good people, over time…
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Let’s put the $4.2 million that Terry McAuliffe raised for his gubernatorial campaign in the first three months of 2009 in perspective. Mark Warner, the Big Kahuna, raised $1.4 million for his gubernatorial campaign in the first quarter of 2001. To be fair, Warner was a Democrat in what was then a Republican state, so…
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I learn something new every day. Today I learned something new about myself. It starts with the journalist in me that guides the editor in me to have an open-door policy on submissions for op-eds and columns and reported news pieces from viewpoints from across the political spectrum. Even as the Augusta Free Press has…
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