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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] How was your coffee this morning? If it was a special blend it was likely very good. If not, if there was no theme, you may have spit it out. Next Question: How do you believe the experiment is going? You know, the great American experiment….
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. marked on Wednesday the one-year anniversary of the implementation of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, which has offered more than a quarter of a million veterans and their families the opportunity to attend college or training programs. After introducing the bill on his first day in…
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Column by Ken Becker Submit guest columns: [email protected] I want to introduce to the public a new concept for funding the federal government. A new efficient tax system that is completely voluntary. This tax plan has been introduced to the United States Congress as the Fair Tax Act (H.R. 25/S. 296). Imagine keeping every…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Republicans are talking tough on federal spending and the national debt right now, but where we they just a few years ago when they had control of Congress and the White House? “Both parties, Republicans and Democrats, have left these issues unaddressed,” said Jeff Vanke, an independent on the…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] You might remember all the hubbub over what they were planning to do with Interstate 81. They were going to pave over the Valley! That was what people were saying, anyway, looking at the monstrosities of plans that we knew as the Star Solutions proposal and the Fluor…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Ed Clark has been in the wildlife business long enough to remember when his help was wanted after the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill. The deskbound experts running the show in the wake of the still-ongoing spill in the Gulf of Mexico have made it clear that they think they…
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Streamlining effort could raise revenues, but at the cost of jobs Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] The state of Virginia is losing as much as $400 million a year to uncollected taxes from Internet retailers. Streamlining a process for collecting them isn’t as easy as some would like to make it out to…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Six Virginia baseball players were selected Tuesday in the second day of the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. The six selections matches a program-best, equaling the six picks in 2007 and 2008. Jarrett Parker (Stafford, Va.) was a second-round pick (74th overall) of the San Francisco Giants. Phil…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The first radio station to ever broadcast from the Shenandoah Valley will observe its 75th anniversary on June 9, 2010. WSVA-550AM, owned by VerStandig Broadcasting, will mark the occasion by publishing a cookbook highlighting recipes submitted by local listeners. “We are excited about making this new cookbook available,” WSVA…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia improved to 2-0 in the Charlottesville Regional with a 13-7 win over Mississippi on Saturday night at Davenport Field. The Cavaliers, the No. 5 national seed, tied the school record with their 49th win of the season and also tied a school record with their 32nd home victory…
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