Chris Graham: What do they have to hide?

Chris Graham

City Council debates transparency, and transparency isn’t faring too well right now Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s just say it like it is. Government is supposed to be of the people, by the people, for the people. I had no heartburn when the critics came out of the woodwork to criticize President Obama and…

David Reynolds: Bag it!

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   Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected] Conservatives have been a little rough on all the spending out of Washington. They somehow think it is excess. That’s because they are still living in the dark ages of the 20th Century when budgets were in billions and not trillions. And they don’t seem to…

UVa. basketball: Back to reality

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Choke points at point, center put Cavs’ NCAA run on the ropes Column by Chris Graham [email protected] All season long I’ve been saying the same thing about the Virginia basketball team that for a good run had everybody thinking, improbably, that the Cavs were headed back to the NCAA Tournament in Tony Bennett’s first year…

Harrisonburg-Rockingham Real Estate Report

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Column by Scott Rogers www.harrisonburghousingreport.com January 2010 sales (45) topped January 2009 sales (38). Furthermore, each of the preceding three months (Oct ’09, Nov ’09 and Dec ’09) showed equal or greater home sales than the same month in 2008. Could it be that the pace of our local real estate market is finally picking…

Turnovers mar EMU in loss at Bridgewater

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   Staff Report EMU sports: www.emu.edu Still trying to find a consistent offensive flow, the Eastern Mennonite women took on rival Bridgewater on the road Tuesday night. The Royals controlled the game for a spell in the second half, but then couldn’t convert on their chances and lost 51-48 to the Eagles. Both teams struggled…

We’re giving our kids a worse and harder world

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  Column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com The parents of every generation expect and hope that their children can and will do better than they did. Ours may be the first generation, in a very long while, where it is both unlikely and unrealistic to have this expectation. The world has just gotten much more complicated,…

What I learned this past holiday season

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   Column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com Every holiday season brings both wonderful times and challenging family situations for most of us, my family included. This past season included the first visit to our home of my in-laws, the first time my sons and I would be apart, and the first time my wife and I…