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Think about your favorite basketball team being down big in a big game. I can easily think this way, as an alum of the University of Virginia. (Bada bing!) So my ‘Hoos are down, say, 15 points to Maryland in the second half. It’s ACC basketball, so UVa. makes a run, cuts the lead to…
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The parcel sat in a corner of my office, taking up valuable space and collecting dust. But, for some reason, I simply ignored it. Then, two weekends ago, again for reasons unknown (well, actually, the pouring rain had spoiled my plans to work outside Saturday afternoon), I finally opened it and could scarcely believe my…
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It’s not a warning. Just a concession to reality, really. Newspapers and magazines can’t afford for too much longer to give away the content they produce for free. AFP editor Chris Graham breaks down the future of the media industry in today’s Daily Rant. AFP Video. Length: 1:52.
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Friday, Oct. 9 MR. GIBBS: All right. I don’t have a week ahead yet, but we will put it in the guidance that will go out a little bit later on this afternoon, so we’ll get a chance to do that then. Take us away. Q On the Nobel Prize, did anyone in the White…
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DuPont Community Credit Union reported growth in total loans outstanding in the third quarter of 2009. The Waynesboro-headquartered credit union, which operates nine branches in the Central Shenandoah Valley region, reported a 2.2 percent increase in total loans outstanding over the previous quarter and a 13.2 percent increase over third quarter 2008.
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Local paper puts content behind pay wall Valley newspaper publishers are watching with great interest how the Daily News-Record in Harrisonburg fares with its recent move to put its online content entirely behind a pay wall. “That’s a pretty bold move. It will be interesting to see how it works out. I think publishers everywhere…
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Film lovers have known for some time that the early November forecast in Charlottesville was calling for some serious Funny Business. On Thursday, at a press conference at the University of Virginia Art Museum, new Virginia Film Festival Director Jody Kielbasa explained why. The 22nd annual Virginia Film Festival, set for Nov. 5-8 at venues…
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A diverse group of musicians came together for the first time 20 years ago because James R. (Jim) Krabill, an Eastern Mennonite University alumnus, had an irrepressible urge to “do music.” Krabill had just returned stateside after 14 years of mission work with wife Jeanette Neff Krabill, a 1973 EMU alumna, in Europe and West…
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Thursday, Oct. 8 MR. GIBBS: Just one quick announcement before we get going. I want to give you a readout of a call between the President and Prime Minister Gordon Brown as part of their ongoing consultations and the special U.S.-U.K. relationship. They talked to each other this morning and discussed several key issues on…
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I can hardly make it a day without somebody asking me a variation of that question. It’s known on both sides of the political fence that soon-to-be-former Republican State Del. Chris Saxman and I are bipartisan birds of a feather, in a manner of speaking. “So surely, Chris, you’d know, if anybody would, what Chris…
