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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] I recently started fooling around with a keyboard. I say “fooling around” because it would not be fair to say that I’m playing music, or anything that even vaguely recalls music, except when I deftly push the demo button and crank out selections from “Ave Maria”…
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Story by Chris Graham The Democratic Party targeted the 26th House District seat being left open by the retirement of Republican incumbent Glenn Weatherholtz, and for good reason – namely, a win by Democrat Lowell Fulk would give the party a plum seat in a GOP stronghold in Rockingham County and the city of Harrisonburg.
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Story by Chris Graham Lt. Gov.-elect Bill Bolling knows his first major public appearance in the aftermath of his Election Night win over Democrat Leslie Byrne could be a little trying. “We could get booed off the field. But I’m rooting for the Hokies either way,” said Bolling, who will be in attendance at Saturday’s…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Big East was going up in flames around them, but Virginia Tech officials knew their bird, as it were, wasn’t cooked quite yet. Because they had a key ally in the moves being orchestrated by the Atlantic Coast Conference to raid the Big East for new members. “The…
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Story by Chris Graham The theme music from “Rocky” played in the background as Tim Kaine and Mark Warner made their way to the stage. It was appropriate – because Kaine, like the mythical boxer Rocky Balboa, and Warner, like his trainer, Mickey, had just pulled off the political upset of the year.
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Story by Chris Graham Much has been made of the issues that led to the scrapping of a city-government revenue-management software system in Staunton. Insiders in City Hall have laid the blame squarely at the feet of Ray Ergenbright, the incumbent commissioner of revenue. Ergenbright’s opponent in today’s election, Maggie Ragon, has gone so far…
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Story by Chris Graham David Harker knows he shouldn’t be here. “Most of the prisoners that returned home, over 600, were repatriated when they said the Paris Peace Accord. Most of them were pilots shot down over North Vietnam. About 150 or so of us were captured in the South. And only about a third…
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Story by Chris Graham They’ve spent $18 million to date on the 2005 gubernatorial campaign – and it could all come down to a folksy television spot that featured Jerry Kilgore and his twin brother, Terry, arguing over who is the better-looking one of the two. “No, I had no idea it would take…
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(This is the fifth installment in a six-part series on The Valley Responds, an effort that links the Shenandoah Valley with residents of Long Beach, Miss.) Sunday religious services along the Gulf Coast have been very different since Hurricane Katrina knocked out most of the church structures in Long Beach, Miss. Services have been…
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Story by Chris Graham Terry Kilgore thought his brother had a future in politics – as the next great GOP campaign strategist. “Jerry actually ran my first House campaign 12 years ago,” said Terry Kilgore, the twin brother of Jerry Kilgore, the Republican Party gubernatorial nominee. “He was so good at it, so organized. He…
