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Column by Mike Oxford John McCain, Jim Gilmore and the Republican Party sure have come up with a catchy slogan for this year’s election. “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less” (and its even cooler cousin, “Drill, Baby, Drill!”) is short, easy to remember, and gives folks an excuse to play dress up as oil rig…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Blue Ridge Area Food Bank is teaming up with local corporate partners to host a series of community food drives through the end of the month of September. The following food drives will be open to the public during normal business hours. – Rutherford Real Estate & Rent PPM:…
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Op-ed by Kara West I am a very lucky woman, and I know it. I have no out-of-pocket expenses for health care thanks to the forward thinking of my progressive employer. Unfortunately many working Virginians don’t enjoy this basic benefit. I haven’t always been in this position, and while it feels luxurious, it should be…
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Column by William Owens Jr. Historic opportunities deserve much praise and much pause. Americans should laud the possibility of the first Black American president, but they should also contemplate the qualities and vision of that prospective president; and more importantly what these would mean for the potential of another Black American president. I ask the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Todd Patrick knows Waynesboro well enough to refer to the Waynesboro Town Center as the place where the old Outlet Village used to be. “I don’t know what it was, but something about the community always seemed attractive. The people were always nice, always cordial, just wonderful to be around….
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Moving Forward column by Chris Graham [email protected] This is one of the more difficult columns that I’ve found myself having to write. I’ve been troubled in recent days by a run of comments on our website advancing slurs on Barack Obama that have me wondering if what we do here at the AFP is even…
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Column by W.R. Marshall Gen. David Patraeus is leaving Iraq. Osama Bin Laden has won. A simple declarative statement — and an unfortunately true one. The victory was handed to him by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al; the Neocon architects of the now ironically entitled “War against Terror.” A war that was lost before it…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Think about how much the world has changed in the past seven years. I was about to write as my next sentence that Nothing is the same, but that’s not true. We still go to work, send the kids to school, fritter away our time debating extremely minor political points…
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Column by Jim Bishop Preface: A man, desperately searching for the “right” church, slipped into the back pew just as the congregation intoned with the worship leader, “We have left undone those things which we ought to have done.” “Thank goodness,” he exhaled, “I’ve found my crowd at last.” Whether an actual anecdote or not,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] They are the ones who are the most affected by cancer and what it can do. They know how important it is to try to get ahead of cancer to beat it before it can do its damage. And they are starting to see the proverbial light at the end…
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