In the News

Chris Graham

– Local News: Swine flu cases confirmed in Lexington, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Event: Art collection will help create healing environment, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Local News: DCCU announces scholarship winners, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Capitol Hill: Perriello-sponsored protections for consumers facing excessive credit fees pass House, posted Friday, 9:10 a.m. –…

In the News

Chris Graham

– Capitol Hill: Warner introduces bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing TARP transparency, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Webb backs Senate measure aimed at strengthening government oversight in mortgage, corporate fraud cases, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News: Kaine signs agreement with Germany on climate change, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News:…

A line in the sand

Chris Graham

The brouhaha that fired up over the weekend concerning reaction in the local blogosphere to my endorsement of Terry McAuliffe for governor might pay some dividends for local Democrats long term. In fact I know it will, based on reactions to a comment that I posted in a thread on the AFP yesterday in response…

Deeds statement signals … something

Chris Graham

The Creigh Deeds campaign is reading something. That I think is clear with the slight shift in strategy signaled in the closing statement that Deeds delivered in Sunday’s Democratic Party gubernatorial debate in Williamsburg. “Our party will no longer be the party of the middle class if our nominee for governor is beholden to Donald…

Hart ready to make noise in 26th

Chris Graham

Lowell Fulk was Al Weed. Gene Hart wants to be Tom Perriello. “Lowell Fulk’s runs in 2003 and 2005 laid the foundation for what we can do this year. We couldn’t be successful if Lowell hadn’t run and lost in 2003 and 2005,” said Hart, 46, a Harrisonburg attorney and presumptive Democratic Party nominee in…

Multimedia | Be careful what your surrogate says on your behalf

Chris Graham

It wasn’t exactly Macaca. “You have two jobs,” former Republican Party presidential-nomination candidate Mike Huckabee told a gathering of GOP faithful in Tazewell County while campaigning for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell this week. “One, get all those people who are going to vote for Bob out to the polls and vote. If they’re not…

The state of the Valley

Contributors

Per-capita incomes are a little less than 80 percent of the state average. We’re older, more of us lack health insurance, most of us are overweight or obese, and a higher-than-acceptable proportion of us lack a high-school education. And yet for the most part, we’re doing OK.

Unemployment rate up, but so is the local labor force

Contributors

Waynesboro’s unemployment rate shot past the 9 percent barrier in January, and unemployment across the Greater Augusta region was up significantly across the board, according to data released by the Virginia Employment Commission on Friday. But continue reading below the fold here, because I think I might have noticed something unusual, to say the least,…

McAuliffe, Moran neck and neck in new poll

Chris Graham

Terry McAuliffe has a slight lead in a new poll measuring support in the race for the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination, but Brian Moran is within the statistical margin of error, and Creigh Deeds is not that far behind. The poll conducted by Public Policy Polling over the weekend has McAuliffe, a former Democratic…