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Valley native releases first album Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Amanda Mackintosh set off for Belmont University in 2005 hoping that one day she’d make her name in Music City. Her first album is coming a bit sooner than expected. “It’s pretty exciting that I already have an album coming out,” said Mackintosh, a Clarke…
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Court strikes down restrictions on corporate campaign financing Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The best government that money can buy – it’s official now. “Their decision announced today in Citizens United v. FEC is constitutionally irresponsible and will surely bring about an anti-democratic revolution in how we finance elections in this country. Today, basic pillars…
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Column by State Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Thomas Jefferson referred to the orderly transfer of power in government as a “bloodless revolution.” Such a revolution occurred in Mr. Jefferson’s Virginia last week as Democratic Gov. Timothy M. Kaine ended his constitutionally-limited one term, and former delegate and Attorney General Robert McDonnell took the oath…
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Critzer, Gauldin step forward to save Valley League team Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The uncertain future of the Waynesboro Generals was a hot topic of conversation for a lot of baseball fans in and around Waynesboro the past several weeks. Among those talking around the proverbial hot stove were a pair of Waynesboro-based businessmen…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] My first reaction to the news that Republican Scott Brown had upset Democrat Martha Coakley in the special election to fill the late Ted Kennedy’s Massachusetts Senate seat – Damn, there goes the country. The pundits were laying out the course for the next few months in the political…
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Unveils new website to offer electronic filing, payment services Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The State Corporation Commission has unveiled a new website – SCC eFile – the first of several steps to offer electronic filing and payment services for business entity transactions handled by the Clerk’s Office of the Commission. The newly redesigned SCC…
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Column by Nan Russell www.nanrussell.com Spoken like a seasoned life traveler, the words from my 3-year-old granddaughter came as an assumptive statement of fact following our shopping excursion. “I don’t like old people,” she told me. “Well, I’m old and you like me,” I said. “No Nana, I don’t like old people.” I know…
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BRCC group gets out of Haiti Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mass chaos. People running through the streets ripping their clothes off. “People thought it was the apocalypse, that it was the end of the world,” remembers Rebecca Evans, an accounting professor at Blue Ridge Community College, who led a group of students and faculty…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s clear that Laurence Verga has his eyes locked on State Sen. Robert Hurt. “I challenge Senator Hurt to show leadership and join me in signing the pledge,” Verga said in a press statement announcing that he had signed on to the Club for Growth’s Repeal It Pledge, through…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Want evidence of how wild and wacky the ACC seems to be right now? Take Virginia Tech as a case in point. The Hokies looked like world-beaters for a half in Chapel Hill before falling apart in the second half of a 78-64 loss, then went out and ate…
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