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– Economy: Initial unemployment claims down – Capitol Hill: Webb calls for transparency in aid to Pakistan
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Sam Rasoul | Why I support Creigh Deeds
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Over the past several months, I have had the pleasure of traveling our great Commonwealth learning more about the struggles facing everyday Virginians. In that time, I have come to one stark conclusion. As a proud Virginian, the single most important elected office to me is the governor. We need a leader who has a…
Carly at the Movies | Are you out of your Vulcan mind?
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The brand new version of “Star Trek,” playing at every theater in the universe (except one little theater on the ninth moon of Saturn) turns out to be a big thrill for Trek fans and for everyone else – well, maybe they’re not sure where they went, but it was an exciting ride.
It started with her saving the elephants
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Malone Moss wants the city to Save the Elephants – you know, the fiberglass elephants that Mark Cline put up on the old landfill hill a month and a half ago. So she wrote to her city councilman, Bruce Allen. “I am a citizen of the city and find the decision to let Mark Cline’s…
A better place to live
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Our friends at the Waynesboro Taxpayer Alliance are out there once again trying to rouse a backbreaking tax increase out of the mixed bag that was the 2009 property reassessment in Waynesboro. Mike Harris, who you might remember as the 830 S. Ellison Lane homeowner whose property assessment and taxes are actually decreasing as a…
Whack-a-T-Mac
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No new polls on the Democratic Party gubernatorial race, but I’m guessing Terry McAuliffe is still comfortably ahead of fellow Dems Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran, judging by the attack ads being thown at McAuliffe by the Deeds and Moran campaigns.
And then there were two – Bowerbank suspends LG campaign
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I’m not sure what to make of the news that Jon Bowerbank has decided to drop out of the race for the Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination. My first instinct is to say I’m surprised given that the most recent public polls had in the area of 70 percent of the expected June 9 primary electorate…
Why nothing about the reassessment?
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Blogger Cliff Garstang got my attention with his interview with Tracy Pyles, and an extensive one at that, that appeared on his Cobalt6 website on Thursday. One thing was noticeably missing in the 1,772-word lovefest, though – even a single mention of the word reassessment.
The two-man alliance
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Two Waynesboro men calling themselves the Waynesboro Taxpayers Alliance sent e-mails to city residents today urging them to take a stand on the “misappropriation” of taxpayer funds by city government. A closer examination of the alleged transgression in the “misappropriation” area, not surprisingly, shows the issue at hand to be nothing more than partisan politics.
Tom Perriello | Fifth District Report
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Starting last week and continuing through the end of May, Social Security recipients in the Fifth District will see some economic relief as $250 economic recovery payments are sent out. Nearly $37.5 million dollars will be put directly back in the pockets of Fifth District residents. The payments, which were provided by the American Recovery…
