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Story by Chris Graham The uncertainty over the latest twist in the ongoing saga involving the Washington Nationals and their quest to land a new stadium in the District might result in bringing Virginia back into the Major League Baseball picture. Published reports regarding the D.C. City Council’s move earlier this month to put a…
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Story by Chris Graham Supporters of public broadcasting had thought that the war on PBS and NPR was over. “Basically, what we’re seeing here is that the administration is laying the foundation for the elimination of all federal funding for public broadcasting indefinitely,” said Kristin Wilson, a spokesman for the Washington, D.C.,-based Association of Public…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Daryl Davis has plenty of detractors – people who question his motives for wanting to meet with white supremacists, who wonder why an African-American man would of his own volition attend rallies of the Ku Klux Klan, who outright doubt his stories of conversions of racial separatists as…
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Story by Chris Graham Issues in Staunton involving the independently elected treasurer and commissioner of the revenue offices and City Hall have been making the news headlines for going on two years now – with the focal points being the delays in the implementation of a new financial-management software system and the delineation of duties…
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Story by Chris Graham Bob McDonnell has claimed victory. Creigh Deeds has vowed to fight to ensure that every vote has been counted. And so the Virginia political world turns as the race for attorney general moves toward week three of overtime. “The people get to decide who the next attorney general is, not Bob…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Big East was going up in flames around them, but Virginia Tech officials knew their bird, as it were, wasn’t cooked quite yet. Because they had a key ally in the moves being orchestrated by the Atlantic Coast Conference to raid the Big East for new members. “The…
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Story by Chris Graham The conventional wisdom is that Staunton voters voted Ray Ergenbright and Elnora Hazlett out of the offices of the commissioner of revenue and treasurer, respectively, because they decided that they’d had enough with issues like the failure to get a new revenue-management software system operational and the effort of Hazlett as…
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Story by Chris Graham The bulk of the attention in the Staunton city elections this fall has been on the hot commissioner of the revenue race pitting incumbent Ray Ergenbright and challenger Maggie Ragon – and their tussle over whether or not Ergenbright should shoulder the blame for the delayed implementation of a new revenue-management…
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(This is the final installment in a six-part series on The Valley Responds, an effort that links the Shenandoah Valley with residents of Long Beach, Miss.) Helping school children return to classes. Assisting an elderly couple in efforts to rebuild their home. Clearing land so that churches may resume services … The rebuilding process…
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Story by Chris Graham Staunton commissioner of the revenue candidate Maggie Ragon stumbled on the question initially. She had just been asked by a candidates’ forum moderator her thoughts on the issue of whether or not the office of commissioner of the revenue should remain an elected office. “That’s a good question,” said Ragon, who…
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