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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama presidential campaign is trying to add 150,000 names to the voter-registration rolls in advance of the ’08 elections, the idea being that new voters will break Democratic in a substantial way and push what could be a close contest in the Old Dominion in November in the…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen I was just a kid during World War II, but I had no fear that the bad guys would invade the little California beach town where I was raised. Mom took me to the movies at least twice a week, and a whole host of heroes shepherded…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The House of Representatives has passed back to the Senate a bill that would help homeowners caught up in the ongoing foreclosure crisis, even as a pair of Virginia congressmen facing re-election battles voted against the measure. “Congressman Goode is clearly out of touch with the honest, hardworking people of…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] TOO MUCH TIME ON OUR HANDS: Zogby poll shows one in five favor secession “One in five American adults — 22 percent — believe that any state or region has the right to ‘peaceably secede from the United States and become an independent republic,’ a new Middlebury Institute/Zogby International telephone…
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Column by Jim Bishop I pull up to the gas pump or go to the super market and leave with a sense of asset indigestion (forgive us our debits). Who’d-a thunk we’d be shelling out four dollars for one gallon of regular gas (even more for high test, even though it probably comes out of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The latest housing-market news is in. I’ll be an optimist and called it a mixed bag, even as Fred Morgan, a Realtor with 1st Choice-GMAC in Staunton and a member of the Greater Augusta Association of Realtors, admits to being a bit shocked when he first saw the latest sales…
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] No, I wasn’t the guy who gave Virginia a first-place vote. So you can quelch that rumor right here and now. Not that I think the Cavs are going to finish fifth in the Coastal Division of the ACC in 2008, either. In fact,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The DuPont Community Credit Union reported a 2.97 percent increase in total loans outstanding and a growth in its bottom-line equity in the second quarter of 2008. Real-estate loans were up 11.5 percent in the quarter, significant in the face of the ongoing home-market crisis. The amount of total loans…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] “Gas prices – $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America, no to independence from foreign oil. “Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?” the announcer intones, and then you realize what you were hearing in the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
