The fun-and-games department

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham It is not as if the steroids scandal that has been the talk of the baseball world for the past year or so was a recent revelation. “Every single sports reporter covering the San Francisco Giants in the late 1990s and the early part of this decade thought that Barry Bonds…

The gethuman.com revolution

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham I was on the phone with the phone company – in a manner of speaking. I wasn’t actually talking to a person – and that was the problem. I had two issues that needed addressing: involving service, one, and two, billing. But the options that the company’s byzantine interactive voice response…

Affordable housing the focus of Staunton leaders

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham   Staunton residents are worried about the apparent lack of affordable housing in the Queen City. Don’t think that the candidates for the three open seats on Staunton City Council haven’t noticed that. “The citizens of Staunton know what is best, and I trust their judgment. If the citizens…

Is the Wayne issue driving the city elections?

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham   It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…

Hate is such a strong word

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham The term Bush-hater today doesn’t carry with it the stigma that it used to. One piece of evidence suggesting that is that more and more people on the left – and even in the amorphous center – are for whatever reason embracing the label. You would think from listening…

Storming the court – and paying the price

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham Elizabeth Hood doesn’t look as fondly at raucous postgame celebrations that include fans rushing a college-basketball court as some of us might. “I stood up at my chair right there, and they knocked me over,” said Hood, a retired usher who worked University of Virginia athletics events for more than 30…