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Staff Report With YouTube Video www.webb.senate.gov U.S. Sen. Jim Webb’s legislation to comprehensively review and overhaul America’s criminal-justice system won a major victory on Thursday when the Senate Judiciary Committee approved the measure with bipartisan support. With the backing of 34 senators and dozens of organizations representing a broad spectrum of the criminal-justice community, Webb’s…
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Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The children’s wing of the Augusta County Library in Fishersville will be closed on Monday, Jan. 25, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. On Tuesday, Jan. 26, it will be open in the morning for storytimes, but will close again from 12:30-4 p.m. The library is taking these safety…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A move by House Republican leaders to get outgoing Gov. Tim Kaine’s politically tone-deaf state income-tax increase up for an early vote on the House floor did what it was supposed to do. The House voted 97-0 on Thursday to reject the proposed 1 percent state income-tax hike that…
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Column by State Sen. Creigh Deeds www.creighdeeds.com The General Assembly convened on Jan. 13. Twenty new members of the House of Delegates were sworn in, reflecting in large part the Republican sweep of the elections in November. Two new senators were sworn in, both vacancies created by the November election. Sen. Ken Stolle from…
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Column by State Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Thomas Jefferson referred to the orderly transfer of power in government as a “bloodless revolution.” Such a revolution occurred in Mr. Jefferson’s Virginia last week as Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine ended his constitutionally-limited one term, and former delegate and Attorney General Robert McDonnell took the oath…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] My first reaction to the news that Republican Scott Brown had upset Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat – Damn, there goes the country. The pundits were laying out the course for the next few months in the political…
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BRCC group gets out of Haiti Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mass chaos. People running through the streets ripping their clothes off. “People thought it was the apocalypse, that it was the end of the world,” remembers Rebecca Evans, an accounting professor at Blue Ridge Community College, who led a group of students and faculty…
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Staff Report EMU sports: www.emu.edu On the strength of last Wednesday’s 90-67 romp over then-No. 1 Randolph-Macon, the Eastern Mennonite men’s basketball team jumped 11 spots this week to No. 7 in the D3hoops.com national poll. In just their third week in the nation’s top 25, the Runnin Royals skipped up from No. 18…
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Landesberg jumper gives UVa. a 69-67 win Story by Scott German UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Sylven Landesberg’s 15-foot jumper with 2.2 seconds lifted the Virginia Cavaliers to a 69-67 win over upset-minded UNC-Wilmington at the John Paul Jones Arena Monday night. The Cavaliers, in winning their eighth straight contest, survived a game of streaks, but fortunately…
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Wright’s 27 lead Cavs to win over Hokies Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Monica Wright (Woodbridge, Va.) scored 27 points to lead the 24th-ranked Virginia women’s basketball team to its first Atlantic Coast Conference win of the season, a 70-56 victory over in-state rival Virginia Tech. Virginia’s overall record improved to 12-5, while its conference…
