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Thursday, Aug. 27 – Press briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
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Jim Bishop | Move over, mountains, faith is coming through
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“Faith is the bird that sings when the dawn is still dark.” – Rabindranath Tagore The keynote speaker for our annual faculty-staff conference was dishing out some rather heady stuff – all relevant to helping get everyone psyched up for the start the new school year looming ahead.
Gene Hart, Greg Marrow and John Lesinski | A(n)other failure of leadership for the Valley
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As veterans in our country’s military service, we each learned about leadership and how to get things done. But rarely, if ever, have we witnessed such a profound failure of leadership as that shown by the Shenandoah Valley’s current delegates at last week’s special session of the General Assembly.
Stop the Presses | If health-care reform were up to me …
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One caveat: It has to fit in today’s political reality. Otherwise, this is a one-word (hyphenated) column: single-payer. Even then, though, what I’ve been mulling over the past several weeks would fit into the single-payer model that I envision being politically palatable maybe around 2035.
Some, ahem, Bold Predictions
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I called a couple of things right last year – that the UVa. basketball team would lose 20 games and cost Dave Leitao his job (they lost 18, and Leitao is gone), and that UVa. would for financial reasons regret retaining Al Groh as its head football coach (and now they’re practically begging people to…
Chris DeWald | Impulsiveness and Stroke Survivors
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According to the American Stroke Association, some survivors experience apathy and don’t seem to care about anything. “People often mistake this for depression because survivors are content to sit and stare at the wall all day.” “The best response is to get them active and moving. Give them a choice of what to do or…
Obama stars in new Deeds radio ad
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State Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic Party nominee for governor, released a new radio ad on Monday featuring President Barack Obama. In the ad, “Fired Up,” President Obama praises State Sen. Deeds as a candidate who will embrace change and provide real leadership.
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Monday, Aug. 24 – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
Home sales up for fourth consecutive month
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Existing-home sales were up in July, the fourth consecutive month that sales were up, according to the National Association of Realtors. Existing-home sales were up 7.2 percent in July over where they were in June and 5.0 percent over where they were in July 2008.
Text of Creigh Deeds campaign address
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Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Creigh Deeds delivered an address today at George Mason University outlining his vision for the future of Virginia and delineating key policy differences between himself and Republican candidate Bob McDonnell.
