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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] We saw a side of Dave Leitao Wednesday night that I hope I personally never see again. “Mm-hmmm” was all the UVa. basketball coach could muster to the last of the five questions – that’s right, five – that he took at his postgame press…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It was a “difficult decision,” but in the end, Tom Reynolds knew what he had to do. “It’s an easy decision to make, but at the same time it’s a difficult decision to make,” said Reynolds, the mayor of Waynesboro for the last four years and a member of Waynesboro…
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Column by Jim Bishop Rise up, o man, and declare yourself clearly and forthrightly, because you know whereof you speak. Or, is it rather, before opening my mouth, better go back and do my homework, develop a clearer way of thinking and then try, try again? I say this in the wake of telling wife…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] One basket, at the buzzer. A one-point margin. Razorthin, that one was. And the two teams left headed in the most opposite of opposite directions. “I think we’re real dangerous. We came in, and everybody called us an underdog, basically. Everybody think we’re just a team on the schedule, but…
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Column by Scott German Virginia basketball coach Dave Leitao’s postgame press conference following Wednesday night’s gut wrenching 70-69 loss to Virginia Tech lasted just short of five minutes. Leitao was obviously in no mood to discuss, much less answer questions concerning his club’s latest loss.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He was on the good end of a 12-hour shift. “It’s 2:30. Just a few more hours, and then I get to go home,” Dwayne Schwartz told me as he drove us across the city of Waynesboro today in a dump truck equipped with a plow to move snow from…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rusty Ashby is concerned about the fiscal future of the Queen City. “I think it’s acquired a lot of debt over the last few years, and I think there’s going to be some real infrastructure needs – with roads, with water and sewer, those things that people don’t like to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The State Corporation Commission has spoken on the proposed Highland New Wind case. A state legislator would like the SCC to keep its nose out of these types of cases in the future. “What this has the effect of doing is eliminating their review of projects such as the one…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Last year, I had the opportunity to travel as part of a bipartisan congressional delegation to the war-torn nation of Sudan and see first-hand, in Darfur, one of the worst humanitarian crises in recent times. As a nation dedicated to freedom and the rights of the individual, the United States has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not the football game, but … It is still Virginia–Virginia Tech. And at least one of the teams in Wednesday night’s game in Charlottesville will be pumped a little more than usual heading in. “Playing Virginia Tech is always a challenge for us as it would be for both…
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