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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike Harris has tried to seize the momentum in the marquee race in the upcoming May 4 local elections with a proposal that revolutionized government budgeting 40 years ago. It’s called the zero-based budget, and the idea is that budget writers start their work on fiscal plans with the…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “. . . Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then. Against the wind We were runnin’ against the wind . . .” – Bob Seger (1980)
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Virginia baseball team, ranked No. 1 this week by Baseball America, stopped No. 10 Coastal Carolina’s 17-game winning streak with a 6-3 victory over the Chanticleers Tuesday at Davenport Field.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Tommy La Stella went 4-for-5 at the plate to lead No. 7 Coastal Carolina to a 6-2 win over VMI Sunday afternoon at Gray-Minor Stadium.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] One day after his worst outing of the season, Casey Hartman got another chance on the big stage Sunday afternoon. Hartman, who did not make it out of the second inning in BC’s 19-9 win over Randolph-Macon on Saturday, gave the Eagles seven gutsy innings and pitched the Eagles…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Talk about ambitious. Charlottesville-based Octagon Partners gave itself 10 months to rehab the old R.E. Lee High School on Churchville Avenue into senior housing and new spaces for ShenanArts and the Staunton Senior Center. And Octagon and general contractor Mathers Construction of Waynesboro are coming in a little ahead…
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Letter from Phil Winter Submit letters, guest columns: [email protected] The News Virginian’s April 24 article about “zero-based” budgeting brought back memories of the federal government’s use of this approach more than 15 years ago. It proved then to be a quickly passing, inefficient, and ineffective, fad. Current City Council member, and candidate for reelection,…
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Column by David Cox Submit guest columns: [email protected] Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell surely raised a ruckus by declaring April to be “Confederate History Month.” Reviving a practice begun only in 1997 by Gov. George Allen and then foresworn by his two predecessors, he initially omitted any mention of slavery. After hitting all the national…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Cody Winiarski (Jr,. Franksville, Wis.) pitched eight innings of one-run baseball and Virginia racked up 14 hits in an 11-2 rout of Maryland Saturday afternoon at Shipley Field. Virginia completed a three-game series sweep and won its 13th straight game in College Park, dating to 2002.
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Column by Laurie Mazur Submit guest columns: [email protected] Forty years ago, 20 million Americans took to the streets to celebrate the first Earth Day. Their agenda was wide-ranging: pollution, smog, endangered species. But one issue—population growth—was seen as the mother of all environmental problems. As Paul Ehrlich, author of The Population Bomb, famously remarked:…
