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Another Christmas has come and gone, and the New Year is here with the resulting resolutions. Many of us use this time of year to reflect on the spirit of giving, especially in the midst of rising unemployment and uncertainty. Some people had less to give or perhaps nothing at all, or even relied on…
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You could almost feel the love. It was Valentine’s Day at the General Assembly Building in Richmond: Never let it be said that our legislature is invariably behind the times, for it was celebrating two days ahead of everyone else. Doors were decorated. Candy sat on tables outside nearly every office. Sweetness, if not light,…
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– Economy: Gas prices trending back downward, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: Nevada knocks off VCU in BracketBusters, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: JMU baseball drops pair in Myrtle Beach, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: JMU softball improves to 9-1, Sunday, 12:40 p.m. – Sports: W&L falls to EMU in men’s basketball, Sunday, 12:40 p.m….
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“Love is like an itchin’ in my heart, tearin’ me apart . . .” – Diana Ross and the Supremes (1966) So, scratch where it itches, Diana, because this most basic human emotion displays its most radiant colors when it’s active. Trying to describe what love is . . . is next to impossible. But…
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President Barack Obama held the first prime-time news conference of his presidency Monday night. Obama took questions from reporters on topics ranging from the economic slowdown and discussions in Congress of his proposed stimulus legislation to issues involving Iran and the Middle East and the news that New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez has confessed…
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Q: What’s a fabulous idea that somebody thinks up, takes credit for, and makes someone else pay for? A: An unfunded mandate. And oh, do those ideas abound in Washington and, more relevantly for today, Richmond. If anyone wonders why property taxes keep rising, unfunded mandates are one reason.
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Our legislators are back at it in Richmond. A couple of weeks into a session that, everyone knows, has got to tackle some excruciating budgetary problems, they seem — as so often — to have produced more heat than light. I often wonder what they’re thinking. Especially when someone comes up with a good, if…
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Funerals are sad, solemn and, when circumstances surrounding the death are tragic, extremely heartrending. At the same time, these occasions can be celebratory as the life and legacy of the person are memorialized and include a focus on life eternal.
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It was cold up in D.C. yesterday. Yet I felt a certain warmth radiating from my television set. Is it possible that the inauguration of a president could change our spirits from being in a winter of despair to seeing a spring with hope? It all depends. If we are talking about these United States…
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We Americans woke up to a different nation than the one we greeted yesterday. It’s not a change of administration. They come and go every four or eight years. It’s not that the Dow hit 14,000 a few hours after Barack Obama was inaugurated. Nor did foreclosures end, nor Lehman Brothers or the Raphine Yellow…
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