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It was a simulation, but the experience felt authentic and “immensely practical” for the three Eastern Mennonite University student participants. So realistic, in fact, that Ashley Hevener, Kaleb Wyse and Joel Kratzer were selected as the top team for their presentation made at the annual convention of Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) held Nov. 6-9,…
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It isn’t just that Republicans got torched in the ’08 presidential election and the House and Senate elections to a point where President-elect Barack Obama has the clearest governing mandate since the first President Bush and an outside shot at a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate that would give his administration virtual carte blanche for…
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Hollywood is still abuzz with the news: “The Secret Life of Bees,” currently at The Visulite in Staunton, is a honey of a movie. And while many films based on best-selling books are disappointing, you won’t get stung by this one. (OK, OK. Enough with the Apoidean puns, already. No more, I promise. Stretching for…
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“It was really about the best night of my life,” Tim Kaine said of Election Night, which not only saw his long-time friend Mark Warner capture a landslide of landslides win over Jim Gilmore in their U.S. Senate race but also saw another friend, Barack Obama, win Virginia on his way to a historic triumph…
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Three states – Arizona, Florida and California – passed bans for gay marriages. The California ballot initiative that passed faces court challenges base on the California legislature’s lack of approval for a change in the constitution. Historically, the ballot initiative are based on previously referendum, or ballot initiatives to change the tax code – such…
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So you’re the governor of Virginia, and you’re trying to make the tough calls on the state budget with a Commonwealth that like the rest of the country and the world that is in the midst of an economic downturn. Your first order of business would seem to be to try to get some sense…
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Alycia Knicely, you could say, is familiar with the territory at Berkeley Glenn Elementary School. “I’ve been here for 16 years as a teacher. And I attended Berkeley Glenn as a child from kindergarten to sixth grade. And my parents live two doors down from the school. Still. Berkeley Glenn is home,” said Knicely, the…
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“I don’t know. She said she fell asleep, it was so bad.” This was the warning from my wife after one of our friends saw an early screening of Oliver Stone’s “W.,” a chronicle of the life and times of the 43rd President of the United States of America, who thankfully is weeks away from…
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“I took a little trip to my hometown, I only stopped just to look around …” – Paul Anka (1960) The morning air was nippy, the sky royal blue, traffic surprisingly light, and while not yet mid-morning, sidewalks were full of people hustling to wherever they might be headed.
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There was no way, I told people, often, that Sam Rasoul doesn’t get at least 40 percent in his Sixth District race with Bob Goodlatte. The kid plain outworked Goodlatte from start to finish, and then, hey, wasn’t Goodlatte running commercials at the end, and telling audiences what he would do “if” he was re-elected…
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