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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall Every now and then, I worry we might elect someone smart. We might put a man or woman in office who will actually say something thoughtful and intelligent. I mean, where would we be if our leaders didn’t supply us with a surfeit of regular and painfully stupid soundbites?…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] From the home office in Downtown Waynesboro … The Top 11 Things That We Could Have Done Better With The $126,000 That We Paid To Doug Walker Not To Be Our City Manager …
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Wait and see.” That sums things up rather nicely. I’ve been spending a good deal of time the past few days talking with city-council members, department heads and line employees in City Hall to try to gauge opinion about what life is going to be like when the new…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tom Reynolds can hear his dad’s voice today. “Dad used to tell me, Son, you have bigger fish to fry here. I’ve got a church that’s looking for a significant amount of leadership. They’ve been gentle with me as a part-time pastor, but as a full-time pastor, there’s going to…
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Item by Jim Bishop Albert N. (Al) Keim, 71, professor emeritus of history at Eastern Mennonite University, died June 27, 2008 at University of Virginia Medical Center. He had a successful liver transplant in 2007, but his health had declined in recent months. Dr. Keim joined the EMU history department faculty in 1965 and retired…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: You, me and everybody we know The State Corporation Commission said today that it has approved Dominion Virginia Power’s request for an 18 percent rate hike. Yippee. The average residential utility bill will go up $16.61 a month with the rate increase. The good news – Dominion deferred about…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When times are tight, and really, when are they not tight, when you’re talking from a local-government perspective, you have to be creative. “The $2 million figure is based on a 2005 study that is now dated. Construction costs have gone up pretty significantly since that study was done. We…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Raise your hands if you know Yemen sold 13,000 barrels of crude oil and products each and every day during 2007 to the United States. OK, just raise your hands if you heard of Yemen in the first place. Yemen? Yes, Yemen. “Oh, good one! And ‘Yemen,’ that actually sounds…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I like the “Friends” analogy the best. “Everyone on Facebook is ‘Friends’ age. They’re still in transition, haven’t put any roots down,” said Harrisonburg resident Mike Rodes, who with his cousin, Ronnie Rodes, is launching a next-generation social-networking website, NeighborhoodFriends.com, next week.
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