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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] A hundred sixty jobs paying an average wage of $50,000 a year. And they cost Danville and the state $590,000. The quick math on that – we’re talking less than $4,000 a job. Which puts the $110,000 a job that Waynesboro paid to get the PGI expansion that some…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Wes Siler noticed the offering in the course catalogue at the University of Virginia, and he was fine with there being a class called Modern Liberalism. What bothered him – where was Modern Conservatism?
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Column by Mark A. Santomieri Submit guest columns: [email protected] Let me introduce myself … I am a man of both wealth and taste. Okay, enough of Mick Lips and the rolling uglies … on to better thoughts. Let’s talk about the Shenandoah Valley and our epicenter, Waynesboro. I’ve got no reason to think that…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Behind a strong pitching performance, the #4 Virginia baseball team earned a series win by stifling #2 Georgia Tech’s potent offense in a 9-1 victory Sunday at Davenport Field. The Cavaliers won the series, two games to one, and finished off their fourth series win over a ranked opponent…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April to be Confederate History Month, but if you’ve read a newspaper or turned on the TV news anytime in the past few days, you knew that already. You also know that plenty of people are plenty mad that he did this, that plenty…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It hit him driving to work early, early, early Friday morning. “I was thinking, Gosh, is this the last time I’m here, the clock turning 4 o’clock in the morning, and I’m driving into the parking lot? This route that I’ve taken to the station for so many years,…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Staunton City Council candidate Carl Tate has taken the Americans for Tax Reform “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” In the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, candidates and incumbents solemnly bind themselves to oppose any and all tax increases. “During this economic downturn, while families are being asked to cut their family budgets, it…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Unfortunately, the column is lost to history, since ACCNation.com is lost to history. (OK, somebody is using the name, and yeah, I’m kinda bothered by that, since I was the one who came up with the name, on the drive back from the Maryland-UVa. football game in 2004, when…
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Column by Jim Bishop Submit guest columns: [email protected] “Time, Oh good, good time, Where did you go . . . ?” – Pozo-Seco Singers (1966) “Time is on my side, yes it is . . .” whined The Rolling Stones’ lead singer Mick Jagger in 1964. Wonder if Grandpa Mick still feels that way…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The top-ranked Virginia baseball team dropped its first series of the season with a 7-6 loss to NC State Sunday at Doak Field at Dail Park in Raleigh, N.C. Virginia scored two runs in the ninth inning to pull within a run, but it was not enough to overcome…
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