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Gov. Bob McDonnell today announced that the Virginia Department of Transportation is using design-build procurement methods to accelerate the delivery of several projects made possible through the governor’s transportation funding package which was adopted by the 2011 General Assembly, and other federal dollars. The design-build procurement method streamlines project delivery by placing responsibility for the…
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Lobbyists are storming Capitol Hill, pushing a tax holiday that would give billions of dollars in tax breaks to less than 1 percent of American businesses – and stick the other 99 percent with the bill. But of course, they can’t say that. So tax holiday advocates are using a high-powered version of the email…
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QUESTION: Teams tend to be more successful throwing the ball, as opposed to running, against your defense. Do you expect more of the same Saturday against Duke? COACH LONDON: You always go into the game and you try to see what teams do best. And as your game plan, what you try to do is…
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Tracy Pyles is frequently criticized for not being able to play well with others. That’s a fair observation. Also fair would be the observation that Pyles thinks the current majority on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors is taking the county in the wrong direction, and playing nice isn’t going to get things moving in…
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I’ve known Dickie Bell for more than a decade. And the Dickie Bell that I know, I like a lot. This other Dickie Bell, the one who comes across as a hard-core social and fiscal conservative, I don’t know him that well, but I understand what’s going on there. Back when Dickie first got the…
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In a game that was close from start to finish, VMI’s Eric Kordenbrock threw for a career-high 320 yards and three touchdowns with a school record 31 completions, but #22 Liberty held on for a 37-31 win over the Keydets in Big South football action Saturday in Lynchburg, Va. VMI (1-8, 1-3 Big South) held…
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A 20-1 Miller School run gave the Mavericks a 41-40 halftime lead over Fishburne. The Caissons broke open a close game with a 14-3 run in the second half en route to a 92-81 win in the finale of the FMS Tip-Off Classic. “Basketball is a game of run,” said point guard Teven Jones (a…
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Haven’t you had enough of that pollution coming out of an old river swamp that we call Washington, D.C.? I have. That’s why I moved to the Valley. One size doesn’t fit the entire country. It’s too big. So we carved it up by inventing federalism – state and local governments. Now we don’t always…
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I’ve known this for a long time but it’s still not easy to publicly divulge – I’m not good at “letting go, moving on.” For example, I don’t like face-to-face goodbyes when someone leaves our congregation for another setting about the time that we really got to know and appreciate them, especially those persons who…
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“After looking at the video, I credit Duke; they played an excellent football game. They kept field position on us in the second half. I did like in the fourth quarter when we needed to get something done our offense moved the ball down the field and got the field position changed around. Defensively, I…
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