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Monday, Aug. 17 – Remarks by President Obama at VFW convention, Phoenix, Ariz. – Remarks by President Obama at Grand Junction, Colo., health-care town hall – Press gaggle by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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Griff Yancey was a second-team All-CAA tailback in the ’09 Phil Steele preseason magazine. Except that the redshirt junior from Glen Allen won’t be playing tailback this year. “It was a tough transition from the beginning, but I’m starting to get the flow of things,” said Yancey, who was moved to safety in the spring…
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“Which one of your candidates is the one that fired his campaign manager?” I happened to be standing at the Staunton-Augusta Democratic Party booth at the Augusta County Fair last week when that question was directed at a volunteer. The reference was to a report from University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato from earlier…
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Citing the Aug. 14, 2009 opinion released by Virginia Attorney General William C. Mims, Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford), House Republican Majority Caucus Chairman and a senior member of the Joint Commission on Technology and Science Samuel A. Nixon, Jr. (R-Chesterfield) and House Science and Technology Committee Chairman Kathy J. Byron…
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Dear EarthTalk: I’m sure there are many good environmental reasons to build a rooftop garden. Can you enlighten? And also I’d like to know how to go about creating one and whether or not some municipalities might offer incentives to do so. – Linda, via e-mail Indeed there are many good reasons to build a…
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Frank Beamer coached Michael Vick. Mickey Matthews recruited him. Both think it’s good to see Vick back in the NFL with the news from today that the Newport News native and former Virginia Tech star has signed a two-year deal with the Philadelphia Eagles.
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Sorry, Mr. President, I don’t wish to die. I know that my death and those of other seniors will help you reform our nation’s health-care system without increasing its cost. But can’t you find a better way? I don’t live in Europe, so I prefer that society doesn’t toss me aside just because it thinks…
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So I’m discussing with the campaign manger for a local Democratic House of Delegates candidate the new push from the Creigh Deeds campaign that has the Deeds camp talking up Republican Bob McDonnell’s social-conservative advocacy and ties to controversial televangelist Pat Robertson one afternoon this week, and I’m relating how much I think the move…
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Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Remarks by President Obama at Medal of Freedom ceremony – Remarks by president and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House ceremony – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
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Madge Trobaugh, RN, CPAN, has been named recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Nursing award from the American Society of PeriAnesthesia Nurses (ASPAN). In order to be nominated for the award, a recipient must exemplify a high level of compassion and specialty expertise, according to ASPAN. In addition, an award recipient is “a recognized expert…
