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Story by Chris Graham The idea that the second book in the series on the history of Waynesboro from local author George Hawke could end up costing city taxpayers upwards of $20,000 has been gnawing at me from the time that I heard that things might be headed in this direction in the spring.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams doesn’t like passing the buck to taxpayers any more than he has to – particularly when Richmond is awash in money from those same taxpayers. “The state has a surplus, and here they are passing this onto us. I don’t understand that. They made the promise, and…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Brenda Gordon didn’t want to admit to herself that she believed in ghosts. Being confronted with evidence of their existence will tend to make a believer out of anybody, of course.
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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.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The talk of the 2005 election cycle in Staunton wasn’t focused on the heated gubernatorial race pitting Tim Kaine against Jerry Kilgore at the top of the ticket or any of the other state races. It was instead on the delays in the installation of a new financial-management software…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen My mother used to watch “60 Minutes” on TV for strictly medicinal purposes. Mike Wallace and them’ns would always have at least one piece of inflammatory journalism that would get her blood boiling, a process that she swore cleaned our her innards.
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Story by Chris Graham Republican Party leaders wanted to make it look like they were extending an olive branch out to Sen. Emmett Hanger after what was an ugly primary battle between the incumbent and the man that they backed for the 24th Senate District GOP nomination, Scott Sayre.
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Column by Chris Graham Quentin Kidd calls it a “sleeper factor” – though the mini-revolts that we have been witnessing statewide over what have become effective tax increases that have resulted from increased local property-value reassessments this spring could reawaken from their brief slumber in time to play a key role in next week’s Republican…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen (My Conscience, bedraggled and annoyed at never being listened to, crawls out of my ear and sits on my shoulder.) Conscience: Hey Carly, how come you’re not reviewing that new Pirate movie? Me: Begone, you blithering jackanapes! Conscience: I don’t blither. And you just KNOW everybody is…
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