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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Wondering how all the political talk about next week’s special legislative session on transportation and who will be willing to do what and the rest affects you? Check out the Virginia Department of Transportation website.
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Op-Ed by Haresh Daswani Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more There was once a humorous story teaching the Indians about the stock market. It was a story of a man from the city going to some alienated village and telling the farmers that he wants to buy monkeys for Rs. 10 each. People started…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I, ahem, invited myself to Lofton Lake this past weekend, and I have to report after traipsing around the premises for a few hours on Saturday that it has been seriously oversold as being a “retreat” featuring cabins owned by “some of the region’s most…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should candidates for public office take money from PACs and lobbyists representing special-interest groups? Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has ruffled some feathers with his ban on campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul has done something of…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen On Friday the 13th I should have known it as soon as I saw those fateful words on the screen: “Written, Produced and Directed by M. Night Shyamilan.” But oh, no. Like a vulture circling a dead wallaby, I licked my lips, chuckled my evil chuckle, reached…
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Column by Mike Hodge Change. Hope. Hope for change. These are the buzzwords we have heard for the last couple years in politics. We need change in Richmond. We need change in Washington. Well, we got change in November 2006. Since then we have gotten the housing crisis, record-high gas prices, record-high oil prices, a…
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Column by Philip Day Chauncey Strong will tell you that he is fortunate, extremely fortunate, to be where he is today. In his position as the director of community services for the Phillips Programs, a nonprofit, private organization (www.phillipsprograms.org) that serves individuals with emotional and behavioral problems located in Annandale, Chauncey is in contact with…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know he has to get tired of having to answer the same questions over and over and over. Because he can’t really answer them in any meaningful way. And yet we have to ask them, because the prospects are so tantalizing. I mean, it’s not every day that you’re…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When Gov. Tim Kaine first made the call for a June 23 special session on transportation last month, he thought there was “about a 50-50 chance” that lawmakers would be able to get something done in terms of coming up with additional monies to go toward maintenance and new road…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Is the issue really choice? Because if it’s not, Bob Goodlatte is seriously misfiring. “Rather than creating a massive government-managed health-care bureaucracy that will dictate medical decisions from Washington,” Goodlatte told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart yesterday, “we should be concentrating our efforts on making health care more affordable for…
