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Column by Chris Graham The question that I get asked most often these days – by locals, by politicos, by professors from outside the Valley – has to do with the Emmett Hanger-Scott Sayre Republican primary race in the 24th Senate District.
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Story by Chris Graham David Cox had thought that he would be running for what would essentially be an open seat in the 24th Senate District. Things didn’t work out the way Cox and many in the punditry had thought – but the Democratic Party nominee still sees an opening.
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Story by Chris Graham Amy and Emily Almarode knew firsthand that the early reports that one person had been killed in a single shooting on the campus of Virginia Tech Monday morning represented just the tip of the iceberg.
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Column by Chris Graham Nobody at USA Today could figure out why the bird was in the cartoon. Jim McCloskey realized something when he heard that.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If the much-talked-about industrial megasite in Augusta County is developed down the road, it is not just Augusta County that will be impacted by the addition of thousands of jobs to the regional economy and thousands more new residents to the regional housing market.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Scotland has Nessie, the Pacific Northwest has the Sasquatch, and Augusta County has its own monster – NIMBY.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham When gasoline was a dollar a gallon, it made sense to pack up the family and head for the hills to escape the higher real-estate prices of the city.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It was around the turn of the new century that David Kleppinger first picked up on what has since become the new trend in economic development.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Agriculture is a $144 million-a-year industry in Augusta County. Not that you would know that by the way that it is treated by the county’s political leaders.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Shenandoah Valley has a gang problem – this is what we have to assume, if only because this is what we are told is the case. We’re reminded often that we have seen gang-related murders here – three in the last five years. This in addition to other…
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