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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] Welcome to winter golf. Technically, we’re only half way through autumn, but golfers know that winter starts when the clocks fall back. That’s when the sun slinks away westward to the Alleghenies before the nine-to-fivers even punch out for the day; when the straightest drive can…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] This will be the thirteenth time that the Walkers and Riders have knocked heads. It all started in 1997, when Casey Martin, a Tour player with a circulatory disease in his leg, sued the PGA for the right to use a golf cart in their tournaments….
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Story by Chris Graham “Two years ago, or a year ago,” Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine told a Waynesboro audience last month, “if you would’ve asked Larry Sabato or one of these pundits, tell us about the governor’s race, they would have said, Look, Tim Kaine is a great guy, he’s a hard worker, but…
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When elections are over and done with next week, I hope my confidence will be restored in network television.
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] Here’s a common scenario on the golf course. Mr. Topskuller, a 30-handicapper, stands on the first tee with his Supercharged, 2000cc, Titanium Tomahawk driver, takes a mighty swing – and rolls the ball almost 100 yards straight down the fairway.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The summer of 2004 was the best time in a long time to be a Democrat in Virginia. The polls had presidential candidate John Kerry within shouting distance of George Bush, for one thing. Kerry, sensing the possibility of an upset in the heart of what Republicans throatily consider…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Independent presidential candidate John Anderson was threatening to break down the door to the two-party system. The Illinois congressman was running strong in the national polls, which showed him with the support of as much as a fifth of the electorate in the summer of 1980. He also had…
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The last 12 years haven’t been easy for me. Every day, I wish I could have somehow changed the way one particular night turned out.
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Story by Chris Graham The presidential campaign trail is a long, winding, unforgiving road. Indeed, if it weren’t for the letters DQ, Vanessa Kerry might have a hard time staying in between the white lines. “When I think of the words campaign trail, my mind immediately goes to little sleep, lots of coffee and cravings…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham When Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, brought up his concerns with respect to the No Child Left Behind education-accountability initiative during the news conference in 2003 in which he announced his candidacy for re-election to the Virginia General Assembly, it didn’t take long for fellow Republicans to paint a…
