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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams doesn’t like passing the buck to taxpayers any more than he has to – particularly when Richmond is awash in money from those same taxpayers. “The state has a surplus, and here they are passing this onto us. I don’t understand that. They made the promise, and…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham “Three guys came into the restaurant, and two of them had guns in their belts. And, I mean, they didn’t look like undercover police. But then again, what does undercover police look like? But … uh … it just looks kind of odd. They kept getting up and going…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The talk of the 2005 election cycle in Staunton wasn’t focused on the heated gubernatorial race pitting Tim Kaine against Jerry Kilgore at the top of the ticket or any of the other state races. It was instead on the delays in the installation of a new financial-management software…
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Story by Chris Graham Taxpayers in Waynesboro, Staunton and communities across the Commonwealth undergoing property-value reassessments this year are feeling more than a pinch.
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Op-Ed by Larry Roller What’s all this talk about a great tax increase? The only tax increase was raising the sales tax from 4.5 percent to 5 percent. Emmett Hanger is working for tax reform, and tax reform means everyone paying his/her fair share. A sales tax certainly does that. But what is not talked…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop What makes any of us acquire so many things? This pesky question resurfaced as I rummaged through accumulated items once deemed priceless treasures. The occasion was preparing for the semi-annual (spring) Belmont Estates yard sale. This seminal event, a cross between a street market and a family reunion, still…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop Only a few torturous hours had passed, and already news reporters were asking administrators, “So, what will you do to tighten security on campus?”
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “Shhhhhh … be vewy, vewy quiet. I’m hunting good humor. Heh-heh-heh-heh-heh …!” Until our nimble nimrod finds some, I’m afraid you’ll have to settle for yet another double-barreled round of ricocheting repartee of poor caliber, shot from the lip.
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop “A dream is a wish your heart makes. . .” – Jiminy Cricket Nearing the end of my illustrious high-school pilgrimage, my overriding dream – other than to graduate with some semblance of academic respectability – was to play music on the radio. I don’t mean sitting by my…
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Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop The past four years, Dave and Sheri Smucker of Harrisonburg have had numerous hands-on lessons in learning to wait … and waiting some more. Their amazing odyssey includes two adoptions, a near-death experience and several minor miracles – if one believes that certain experiences defy rational explanation.
