Coastal completes sweep of reeling VMI
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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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Bridgewater storms to ODAC baseball title
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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…
Gypsy Hill Place: On pace
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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…
Phil Winter: Zero-based budgeting debate
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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,…
David Cox: WWLD?
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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…
‘Hoos complete sweep at Maryland
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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.
Laurie Mazur: Population growth
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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:…
Jim Bishop: All the world remains a stage for Ted Swartz
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] It’s a telling sketch. Local actor-playwright Ted Swartz plays a college student who comes home and tells his father that he decided to change his major from theater to pre-med. “I want to become a brain surgeon,” the young man tells his dad. The father, an…
#20 Virginia Tech rallies in ninth, knocks off #1 UVa.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] #20 Virginia Tech avoided a three-game series sweep with an 8-5 win over second-ranked Virginia Sunday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd of 4,219 at Davenport Field. The Hokies used a five-run ninth inning, capped by Buddy Sosnoskie’s two-out, two-strike, bases-clearing double, to rally for its first win…
What happened to tax reform?
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] The push toward tax reform that caught up in its inner workings the sitting governor and a future governor among its bipartisan leaders fell surprisingly silent after 2004, much like the tree in the woods with no one there to witness if it actually makes a sound.
