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Friday, Aug. 14 – Remarks by the president in town hall on health care, Belgrade, Mont.
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Valley Dem campaigns could feel heat from Deeds stratagem
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So I’m discussing with the campaign manger for a local Democratic House of Delegates candidate the new push from the Creigh Deeds campaign that has the Deeds camp talking up Republican Bob McDonnell’s social-conservative advocacy and ties to controversial televangelist Pat Robertson one afternoon this week, and I’m relating how much I think the move…
UVa. names football captains
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Virginia football coach Al Groh announced today the captains for the 2009 season. The players, selected by a team vote this week, are OT Will Barker (Bryn Mawr, Pa.), LB Denzel Burrell (South Orange, N.J.), LB Aaron Clark (Fairfield, Va.), DT Nate Collins (Port Chester, N.Y.), CB Chris Cook (Lynchburg, Va.) and QB Vic Hall…
The Agenda | Wednesday, Aug. 12
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Heard again today from the Macker – who asked me and others on his weighty e-mail list from the gubernatorial primary to support with our dollars House Democratic candidates this fall. “Pooling our resources together is the best way to ensure they’re spent most effectively – protecting vulnerable incumbents, and giving support to candidates with…
Nicosia out, Beverage in treasurer’s race
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Pat Nicosia has decided to forego her run for the Waynesboro city treasurer constitutional office in the Nov. 3 general election, but embattled Treasurer Sandee Dixon will have a challenger. Stephanie Beverage is back in the running for the post after falling short in her 2005 campaign. Beverage is the daughter of former treasurer Nancy…
Single-payer advocate criticizes Obama, Dems
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I’d not heard anyone talking about single-payer health care at the state level until I walked door-to-door with Sherry Stanley for a profile story that I wrote about her during her campaign for the 25th District seat in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1997. All these years later, with much of her free time…
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Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Remarks by President Obama at Medal of Freedom ceremony – Remarks by president and Justice Sonia Sotomayor at White House ceremony – Press briefing by Press Secretary Robert Gibbs
A small-business perspective on health-care reform
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You’re not going to think that health-care reform is bad for business after reading this column. “When it comes down to costs, it makes it hard to do what you need to do. I came really close to dropping insurance this year. It went up so much, and if it goes up that much next…
A View from the Right | Un-American
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Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) demonstrates how her permanent residence in her ivory tower sneering down upon the minions beneath her has affected her perspective, when she liberally accuses American citizens of having mob mentality for simply exercising their rights to free speech and expression as guaranteed by the Constitution.
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Monday, Aug. 10 – Press conference with President Obama, Mexican President Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico – Press gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
