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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Air travelers leaving the Shenandoah Valley for the Northeast now have to budget for as much as six or seven hours of time in the air and in the airport. Beginning Feb. 18, they can cut that time by half or more. Colgan Air and the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I go into any discussion of the book industry presuming that sales are down, down, down, reader interest is even worse, the prospects for improvement are dead in the water. And then I talk to my friend the horror author Matthew Warner, and I start to get depressed. “I’m trying…
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Column by David Cox Amid the ruckus over abusive driver fees, a budget shortfall, mental health care in light of the Tech murders, and other issues of the moment, larger questions get overlooked. Yet these are often the questions that underlie the issues that elections turn on.
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Item by Chris Graham Jill Holtzman Vogel joined Congressman Frank Wolf and two fellow General Assembly candidates yesterday at a press conference held to raise issue with the State Corporation Commission’s decision to approve a hike in tolls on a private toll road in Northern Virginia. Vogel, the Republican nominee in the 27th Senate District,…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham WINNERS: Clay Athey and Todd Gilbert raise issue with immigration appointment We’ll call them winners for now, anyway – because the two Republicans have been scoring political points for their party with their noise over the appointment of Esam Omeish to the Virginia Commission on Immigration. Public pressure…
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Story by Chris Graham State delegates Todd Gilbert, R-Shenandoah, and Clay Athey, R-Warren, are calling on House Democratic Caucus chair Brian Moran to disclose what role, if any, he played in the appointment of the controversial leader of the Muslim American Society to the Virginia Commission on Immigration. The what role, if any part relating…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham He had to fend off perhaps the fight of his political life in June with a party-primary challenge from Rockbridge County businessman Scott Sayre. With the change of seasons from summer to fall, 24th District Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger would seem to have if not the second-biggest fight of…
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Item by Chris Graham The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank Network has a new person in charge of marketing and events. Terrie A. Dean has been appointed to serve as the food bank network’s marketing and events director. Dean most recently held the position of marketing and public-relations director for the Charlottesville-Albemarle Airport. The Blue…
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Story by Chris Graham Conservative activist John Taylor noted with interest the story in The Daily Progress about Central Virginia Republican Del. Bill Janis coming out in support of changes to the controversial abusive-driver fees that have had GOP lawmakers on the defensive the past couple of months. “Now it’s almost a daily event that…
