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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The only question to me would be how he would get around having said repeatedly that he is not interested in the job. Because otherwise, wouldn’t the #2 spot on Barack Obama’s national ticket be Mark Warner’s to lose? Even the Obama people seem to think so. Journalist Marc Ambinder…
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Column by W.R. Marshall I’d like to find the guy who started that whole “A bad day of golf is better than a good day at the office” thing and drag his cliché-spoutin’ butt behind a John Deere 1200A Bunker Rake. Why the hostility about the game I love? It’s really my fault. A couple…
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Story by Chris Edwards At the fourth annual conference of Mennonite higher-education faculty – held this year for the first time at Eastern Mennonite University – two keynote speakers approached the theme, “Creation, Christ and the Classroom,” from opposite perspectives, theological and temporal. They spoke Aug. 8-9 to about 45 faculty, plus several graduate students,…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Believe it or not, I am supporting Obama,” the e-mail began. And honestly, I didn’t believe it, not at first. Surely Brett Hayes was pulling my chain. We’ve known each other for years, and got to know each other a lot better during my brief city-council campaign in…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Since my time as your governor,” Jim Gilmore writes in a fundraising letter that went out last week, “I have routinely been vilified by the biased liberal media, by the state Democratic Party and even by the liberal tax-and-spend members of my own party. Why? Because I promised…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything is on the table, Gov. Tim Kaine told state legislators today as the two sides began to address a projected billion-dollar shortfall in the current biennial state budget. “The need to engage in a third major round of budget reductions will mean, by necessity, that all programs — including…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s put two and two together and see what we get, shall we? Politico is reporting that Barack Obama is likely to announce his vice-presidential running mate this week, and notes that Obama is scheduled to be in New Mexico today with VP contender Bill Richardson and on Wednesday in…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Naughty, naughty! What are you thinking? The “Annual Woody” I refer to is, of course, Woody Allen’s release, each year in the fall, of a brand-new movie. In recent years, it’s been a painful experience for all us Woodyphiles who cling to memories of the Woody Allen…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Creigh Deeds remembered being asked to save the date on his schedule. “David Bottenfield said we needed to mark off this date, the 16th of August, for Paint the Valley Blue, that we were going to have a little picnic at the Frontier Culture Museum,” Deeds said at last night’s…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I call it The Wilder Effect. Doug Wilder was up nine points in the pre-election polls in his 1989 gubernatorial race with Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation’s first elected African-American governor, but in the poll that counted on Election Day he won by less than half…
