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Which shall it be? You say that calling yourself a Democrat, a Republican or an Independent is just fine with you. But those parties are over. Happy days are not here again. Party lines have become blurred. Everyone is serving the same shrimp. We want clear choices to feed on. So we stayed home. No…
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Respect. Isn’t that really all parents want from their kids? Isn’t it about the hardest thing to actually teach them to do–treat us with respect? I struggle with this a great deal due to the way my two teenage boys sometimes speak to me, respond to a request, and generally behave. It is not with…
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Florida State football coach Jimbo Fisher talks with the news media in advance of his team’s game on Saturday with Virginia. Pretty good defense you’re facing this week? “Very good, they are 12th in the country, and seventh in scoring. You go watch VMI, watch Richmond, they are a very go program and then go…
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Ground was broken on the new Riverheads fire and rescue station in August a couple of weeks before all hell started to break loose on the future of the whole volunteer fire-rescue concept that has served Augusta County for decades. Construction crews were busy at the site Wednesday morning with quite visible signs of progress…
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Virginia football coach Mike London talks with members of the news media about his team. UVa. (2-1, 0-0 ACC) will host Florida State (3-1, 1-0 ACC) on Saturday at noon. Q. I have a question that doesn’t really pertain to this week’s opponent, but when you scheduled two FCS teams, did you think there might…
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Lately, the federal deficit has been decreasing its increasing. With all the hype over burning Korans, building mosques, protesting Tea Partiers, not to mention the triumph of good over evil of the Redskins beating the Cowboys a week ago Sunday, you might have missed that point of some, if small, consolation. So I’ll repeat: The…
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The previously announced traffic pattern change on Port Republic Road for Sept. 30 has been changed to Oct. 7 due to construction schedule impacts from recent rainfall. Motorists should be alert for a traffic pattern change on Oct. 7 at the Port Republic Road construction project in Rockingham County. Southbound traffic at the Harrisonburg city…
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Over the years this columnist has been bombarded with requests to explain politics in Washington. Both regular readers have asked what the difference is between Republicans and Democrats up in Disneyland East. (Our third reader was more interested in the social differences between Lexington and Buena Vista, but we decided not to tackle that one.)…
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An audit should be, well, an audit – a review of facts and figures with a bottom line assessment. When an audit is not an audit – when it involves the great political football in Virginia politics. “We must demand better stewardship and utilization of existing funds. That is why I ordered this comprehensive performance…
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NASCAR SNOOZEFEST: I’m listening to Denny Hamlin on “The Scott Van Pelt Show” on ESPN Radio driving around in the Valley today, and I hear Hamlin say something that to me explains what is fundamentally wrong with NASCAR right now. Asked by Van Pelt if at this stage of the NASCAR season he’d rather win…
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