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Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com CRAIG LITTLEPAGE (director of athletics): Good afternoon, everybody. And we appreciate your taking time to be with us this afternoon to conduct some very important business as it relates to our football program. I want to reiterate the message that Jim brought us from President Casteen. He’s deeply disappointed that…
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Staff Virginia Tech sports: www.hokiesports.com Tyrod Taylor Is it good that you have been on a roll going into the bowl game? “The last couple games we put up a lot of numbers on the offense. We just have to keep continuing to get better in practice heading into the bowl game.” Does heading…
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Column by David Reynolds Columns, letters: [email protected] Last time we painted a bleak budget picture, saying that this year’s public budgets are worse than last year’s, but not as bad as next year’s. In my old Washington Bureau of the Budget days it allowed us to put away the usual governmental garbage that we…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chick-fil-A Bowl president Gary Stokan has an interesting idea. Why not ask racing magnate Bruton Smith his thoughts about moving the Virginia Tech-Tennessee bowl matchup to Atlanta Motor Speedway to accommodate what would be expected to be intense interest among the two schools’ fan bases? “Our fan base has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons our country is in the challenged position it…
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Statement from U.S. Sen. Jim Webb www.webb.senate.gov I have great regard for the careful process employed by this administration in an effort both to define a new approach for the long-standing military commitment in Afghanistan and to put an operational framework in place for our responsible withdrawal. At the same time, I intend to…
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Video Essay by Chris Graham [email protected] What about those White House party crashers? We haven’t had something this salacious to talk about since, well, the balloon boy. With unemployment at 10 percent, with the health-care system in bad need of reform, with wars in Afghanistan and Iraq seemingly at no end, does it really…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The angel came to Mary Martin not in a vision, but on the phone. “We’re putting an addition on the back of your house, and you can’t say no,” the angel told Mary, mother of Joseph, in our modern-day retelling of the Christmas story an active Waynesboro 12-year-old who…
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Column by David Reynolds Columns, letters: [email protected] Back during the dark ages of the 1960s, the days after Thanksgiving did not mark the beginning of the holiday season. Rather it was the start of the “Budget Season.” At the old Bureau of the Budget in the old Executive Office Building (everything was old then),…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The three-plus years that Kathe Maneval has spent on the Waynesboro School Board have been “very rewarding.” “I really feel that we’re making a difference in the lives of children, and that’s what we’re here for,” said Maneval, who held a joint press conference with Jeremy Taylor as the…
