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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…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] GROH-ING SENSE OF IMPENDING DOOM: Another blowout loss UConn. had a tough time beating Temple. Showing that Al Golden knows something that Al Groh doesn’t. That 45-10 loss that the Huskies hung on Groh’s Cavs might as well have been 45,000,000-10 the way it’s going over in Hooville. My take:…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Attorney General Bob McDonnell is applying for another job next year, as you might have heard. But first things first. McDonnell is focused through Nov. 4 on the ’08 elections and what he can do to help keep Virginia in the Republican Party column. “It’s a competitive state. It’s obvious…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] (Second in a series.) “There’s no surer way to kill economic growth and kill jobs than raising taxes in tough economic times.” Former Virginia attorney general and ’05 gubernatorial silver medalist Jerry Kilgore is echoing there what has become the Republican Party mantra dating back to Ronald Reagan….
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Column by Mike Oxford John McCain, Jim Gilmore and the Republican Party sure have come up with a catchy slogan for this year’s election. “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” (and its even cooler cousin, “Drill, Baby, Drill!”) is short, easy to remember, and gives folks an excuse to play dress up as oil rig…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is teaming up with local corporate partners to host a series of community food drives through the end of the month of September. The following food drives will be open to the public during normal business hours. – Rutherford Real Estate & Rent PPM:…
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Op-ed by Kara West I am a very lucky woman, and I know it. I have no out-of-pocket expenses for health care thanks to the forward thinking of my progressive employer. Unfortunately many working Virginians don’t enjoy this basic benefit. I haven’t always been in this position, and while it feels luxurious, it should be…
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Column by William Owens Jr. Historic opportunities deserve much praise and much pause. Americans should laud the possibility of the first Black American president, but they should also contemplate the qualities and vision of that prospective president; and more importantly what these would mean for the potential of another Black American president. I ask the…
