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AFP editor Chris Graham talks business and politics on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan.” The segment begins with a look at gas prices. Expected to be at record highs by the upcoming Memorial Day weekend, they’ve actually been on the retreat in recent weeks. Why, and what impact will declining prices at the pump have…
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On this Memorial Day weekend, I ask openly, why are memories so important to us earthlings? Maybe that’s not the proper way to phrase the question. Some people may go out of their way to suppress certain memories. For others, their minds are playing nasty tricks on them as victims of Alzheimer’s disease. I need…
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Many analysts see a decline in gas prices after a Memorial Day weekend peak – but we still have a ways to go both in terms of time and what we might be paying at the pump until then. “So far this year oil prices have been driven by speculation, geopolitical unrest, natural disasters, a…
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The national average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline was at $3.85 on Friday, up three cents from a week ago, 30 cents from a month ago and 99 cents higher than a year ago. The price at the pump has gone up 78 cents since the beginning of 2011. The push upward this…
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The national average price of a gallon of regular unleaded was at $3.83 a gallon as of Monday morning, up six cents from a week ago and 97 cents over the past year. That’s the bad news. The sort of good news: Don’t expect prices to stay at this level for too long. “Should prices…
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The Staunton Augusta Art Center announces that it is now receiving applications from artists of fine art and fine craft interested in participating in the 45th annual Art in the Park at Gypsy Hill, a two-day festival of quality fine art and fine craft every Memorial Day weekend and scheduled for May 29 and 30,…
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Nearly 600 state employees will be laid off, and those keeping their jobs will get an extra unpaid day off added to their Memorial Day weekend in 2010. Those are among the highlights of Gov. Tim Kaine’s plan to account for a $1.5 billion state-budget shortfall that is the result of the continued economic slowdown….
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As the summer driving season winds down, so are prices at the pump. The average U.S. retail price for regular gasoline dropped 2 cents for the second consecutive week to $2.61 a gallon Friday. The current price is $1.05 below year-ago prices and $1.50 below the record price of $4.11 set last July. Throughout most…
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The average price of a gallon of regular unleaded hit the $2.31 mark today, with the price at the pump in Virginia reaching the $2.21-a-gallon mark as the days count down to the start of the summer driving season.
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You’ve probably already noticed it, but just to confirm – yep, gas prices are spiking again. A streak of several weeks with prices at the pump going virtually unchanged has given way to a 12-cent-per-gallon increase in the past week, according to AAA Mid-Atlantic. The average for a gallon of regular unleaded nationally is now…
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