ACC players of the week

Virginia Tech sophomore cornerback Jayron Hosley and Miami senior wide receiver Leonard Hankerson headline a list of six players recognized as the Atlantic Coast Conference Football Players of the Week, announced Monday by the ACC. Hosley, also this week’s Walter Camp National Defensive Player of the Week, accounted for all of the Hokies’ three interceptions,…

Press Conference: Jimbo Fisher

Chris Graham

Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday with Virginia. Pretty good defense you’re facing this week? “Very good, they are 12th in the country, and seventh in scoring. You go watch VMI, watch Richmond, they are a very go program and then go…

Moving forward in Riverheads

Chris Graham

Ground was broken on the new Riverheads fire and rescue station in August a couple of weeks before all hell started to break loose on the future of the whole volunteer fire-rescue concept that has served Augusta County for decades. Construction crews were busy at the site Wednesday morning with quite visible signs of progress…

Press Conference: Mike London

Chris Graham

Virginia football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media about his team. UVa. (2-1, 0-0 ACC) will host Florida State (3-1, 1-0 ACC) on Saturday at noon. Q. I have a question that doesn’t really pertain to this week’s opponent, but when you scheduled two FCS teams, did you think there might…

David Cox: Quiet progress

David Cox

Lately, the federal deficit has been decreasing its increasing. With all the hype over burning Korans, building mosques, protesting Tea Partiers, not to mention the triumph of good over evil of the Redskins beating the Cowboys a week ago Sunday, you might have missed that point of some, if small, consolation. So I’ll repeat: The…

Rain pushes Port Republic Road traffic change back a week

Contributors

The previously announced traffic pattern change on Port Republic Road for Sept. 30 has been changed to Oct. 7 due to construction schedule impacts from recent rainfall. Motorists should be alert for a traffic pattern change on Oct. 7 at the Port Republic Road construction project in Rockingham County. Southbound traffic at the Harrisonburg city…

David Reynolds: Peanuts politics

David Reynolds

Over the years this columnist has been bombarded with requests to explain politics in Washington. Both regular readers have asked what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats up in Disneyland East. (Our third reader was more interested in the social differences between Lexington and Buena Vista, but we decided not to tackle that one.)…

The politics of the VDOT audit

Chris Graham

An audit should be, well, an audit – a review of facts and figures with a bottom line assessment. When an audit is not an audit – when it involves the great political football in Virginia politics. “We must demand better stewardship and utilization of existing funds. That is why I ordered this comprehensive performance…