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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You’ve probably never heard the name Lilly Ledbetter, so you might think it unusual that Michelle Obama would go out of her way to talk about how “amazing” the retired grandmother is. “I know that there are many people here who didn’t know her story, didn’t understand the origins of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] This is unfamiliar territory for Virginia Tech football – heading into a game in Chapel Hill as a two and a half point ‘dog. “When you look at North Carolina, and I know we played Georgia Tech, East Carolina and Furman, but this will be the best football team we’ve…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bob Goodlatte said in 1992 during his first campaign for the Sixth District seat in the U.S. Congress that he would limit his time in Congress to six two-year terms. His ’08 run is for term #9, and though Goodlatte has been silent as to the broken promise, Democrats haven’t…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a midday Thursday event in Waynesboro featuring a former Mississippi governor stumping for Barack Obama. You wouldn’t expect to see more than a handful of people on hand, right? So then when 55 people show up to see Ray Mabus talk about what Obama wants to do to…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] News Virginian editor Lee Wolverton and I agree on two things – well, maybe three. I’m adding one that I hope we’d assent to – that it was a pleasure to sit down a few months back and talk issues. Of the other two, I am certain – that we…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s time for new solutions, Michelle Obama told a rally of 2,500 people on Grounds at the University of Virginia Wednesday afternoon, “because we know that the old ways just won’t do.” Obama, the wife of Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama, and Jill Biden, the wife of Delaware senator…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Washington Redskin and current American Hunters and Shooters Association president Ray Schoenke is the featured voice in a new 60-second radio spot highlighting Barack Obama’s commitment to protecting the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun owners, hunters and sportsmen and his commitment to adding jobs to the U.S. economy. “It’s…
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Op-ed by Katharine DeBrecht Barack Obama held a fundraiser in Beverly Hills Sept. 16 at the Beverly Hills Wilshire Hotel. The man fighting for the working class hosted a $28,500-per-plate dinner for approximately 250 average Americans at the Greystone Mansion. Guests then handed over another $2,500 to hear Barbara Streisand croon. A record 700 everyday…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] (Third and final installment in a series.) Are we ever going to be able to balance the federal budget again? That’s the question that has fiscal conservatives like me picking through the fiscal proposals of John McCain and Barack Obama searching for needles in the haystack. The bad news: Neither…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Mississippi governor Ray Mabus will be in Waynesboro on Thursday to lead a “Real Change for Rural America” community forum for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Mabus served as governor of Mississippi from 1988-1992 and was selected as the best governor of the millennium in a 1999 poll commissioned…
