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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] One guy gets more votes, the other guy has friends in high places, and you can guess who wins. I could be talking about George Bush, Florida, the U.S. Supreme Court in 2000, but I’m not. I’m talking about the Augusta County Republican Committee, which elected Larry…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Item by Laura Lehman Amstutz LEAP365 (Learning, Exploring and Participating) completed its first mentoring cycle with a mentor/mentee retreat held May 16-18 at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. Ten high-school students and 10 adults were involved in the mentoring program. Participants praised the program for the way it helped them learn and grow as individuals. “Through this…
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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall Dmitry Medvedev, the new Russian president (and Vladimir Putin’s handpicked successor), has taken his first official trip, and just two weeks being sworn in on May 7. No, he didn’t land back in the USSR. Medvedev, showing the world who really matters, headed east and went to Beijing for…
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Column by Faryal Zubair Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more While many people use common sense on a regular basis, I feel that its use is only required on demand. Unfortunately, it’s not something that I demand from myself very often. As a 16-year-old, the biggest dream of my life is about to come…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I was supposed to interview a bestselling author in person here at the Augusta Free Press headquarters on Friday, but Ellis Nassour never showed. I chalked it up to his busy schedule. Nassour was in the Valley over the weekend for auditions for the upcoming…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Webb just makes too much sense as a VP on the Barack Obama ticket. And no, you can’t see where this column is going, so stay with me here. I’ll finish the above thought, which again is not where this column is going. Ahem. Webb brings Virginia…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “The budget will allow services to remain substantively intact while shielding already strapped taxpayers from increased cost.” That’s definitely one way to look at the city budget. Another view that I’ve been advancing is that we’re actually losing on both ends. Because services aren’t going…
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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more We’ve been slogging along for the last – what is it, hundred years? – with this endless campaign, and every step of the way we’ve been treated to the muzak of political code words. Both politicians and pundits throw these little…
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Op-Ed by Haresh Daswani Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more I am a firm believer of my faith, but have also welcomed friends and beliefs from everywhere. Belief, after all, is what we might have arrived to having our questions most satisfied by scriptures, experience, prescribed way of life, or to whichever have brought…
