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Tuesday, Sept. 1 – Remarks by President Obama at Iftar Dinner
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Groh: Hall will start … at punt returner
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Still no word on who Virginia will be starting at quarterback Saturday in the season opener at home against William & Mary. But we do now know that Vic Hall will be returning punts. “That’s one thing we know for sure, that we will have Vic back there returning,” UVa. coach Al Groh told reporters…
A ‘different’ Bob McDonnell
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I wouldn’t say I’m bothered by what Bob McDonnell wrote two decades ago in his now-infamous master’s degree thesis. OK, I am bothered by it, personally. “While the proliferation in the day care industry was created in part by the financial hardships of women fostered by no-fault divorce, it was also stimulated by the private…
Labor Day weekend at Lime Kiln
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The Labor Day concert tradition returns to Theater at Lime Kiln on Sunday, Sept. 6, with Blues, Bluegrass and Barbeque. The evening festival begins at 6 p.m., featuring local blues band Honest Labor, solo blues artist Scott Ainslie, and Brennan Gilmore’s bluegrass band Walker’s Run. Lime Kiln executive director Kim Renz says this is another way…
A Dad’s Point of View | Best friend, or best parent?
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We just returned from a boys trip to Vegas. By “boys,” I mean my two boys, who are almost 16 and 13 and me, the oldest of the “boys” (according to my wife). I had to consider, yet again, the dilemma we confront as parents today, with the constant assault on our values and the…
Architecture firm to formally open Valley office
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The Gaines Group PLC, an architectural firm with more than 22 years of experience in Central Virginia, will on Tuesday officially open its Harrisonburg office to serve its growing clientele in the Shenandoah Valley. “We are opening our second office in Central Virginia because of the huge demand for green architectural design and LEED consulting…
We’d like to talk to Warner and Webb, too
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Let me make this clear – if I’m Jim Webb or Mark Warner, I’m not letting a tea-party guy set up a health-care town hall for me, because I’d know what was really being set up – an ambush. That said, and I have a hard time believing that I’m going to agree with David…
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Thursday, Aug. 27 – Press briefing by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton
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.
