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It hasn’t been that long since the word “maverick” triggered the next drink in the drinking game. John McCain, the original GOP maverick, has since made a hard turn to the far right, judging his political survival to be of more import than his political legacy. The maverick is a dying breed in the Republican…
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Emily Henline could very well be the next Taylor Swift. But first things first – she has to do her homework.
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Bath County State Sen. Creigh Deeds announced today in an e-mail that he will run for re-election to his 25th District seat. “I am running for re-election because I am not finished,” said Deeds, who was the Democratic Party nominee for governor in 2009, losing that race in a landslide defeat to Republican Bob McDonnell….
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David H. Shenk is leaving his home in Harrisonburg for South America on Sunday, Dec. 5, and doesn’t expect to return for two years. It’s a long time to be gone, but he’s ready to put into action that which he feels prepared to do. Shenk, 23, was born at Shenandoah Hospital in Woodstock, Va.,…
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The Virginia Department of Transportation completed installation of 70 mph speed limit signs in November, more than a month before the estimated completion date of Dec. 31. The initiative results in 61 percent of Virginia’s interstates having speed limits of 70 mph. The last segments – Interstate 95 from Ashland to Spotsylvania, the southern piece…
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This column is not for wine lovers. Rather, it is directed to my conservative friends who have no love for government, who think that all governments are nothing more than intrusions into our private lives, who never met a tax they liked and who believe that all public budgets should be filed under fiction. Sorry,…
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In the very near future Virginia will receive its official population numbers from the 2010 census. Our numbers are among the first to be issued because our off-year elections require us to redraw our legislative district lines in time for the 2011 fall elections. Follow the progress of the census results being made available at…
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A bipartisan group of Virginia leaders will work to get the Obama administration to reverse its move to block drilling off the coast of Virginia until at least 2017. “As a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, we learned a number of lessons, most importantly that we need to proceed with caution and focus…
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Hello, readers, and the best to all of you. Most of this article is based on my inside look on this disease. Let us break this down. A stroke, or “brain attack,” occurs when a blood clot blocks an artery (a blood vessel that carries blood from the heart to the body) or a blood…
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Seven different Keydet players had at least 16 points, VMI notched the second-most points in school history and the Keydets routed the Central Penn College Knights 151-92 Monday night at Cameron Hall in Lexington, Va. The 151-point output was just five points shy of the largest scoring efforts in program history, a pair of 156-point…
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