Haresh Daswani | Reality check on American cars
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It is no longer just the cost of labor anymore. The biggest reality check American car companies should ask themselves is, Who wants to buy my car?
Search Results for REAL ID
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We know where they really stand on the arts
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“Museums,” the line in the Steve Landes campaign press release touting the state legislator’s kickoff tour set for this weekend, “as well as performing and fine arts centers, continue to attract tourists to the Valley, which help stimulate the economy.”
David Reynolds | Circle June 9
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That’s a Tuesday. It is always a Tuesday when too few of us take time out of our daily lives in order to maintain our way of life. Election days in the USA always fall on Tuesdays. Don’t ask me why. They just do. Or as we say in these parts, “We have always done…
David Reynolds | O’s Tar Baby
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Lyndon Johnson had his Vietnam. Jerry Ford had price controls. Jimmy Carter had inflation. Richard Nixon had you know what. Bill Clinton had you know who. George W. Bush tried to imitate a Democrat. And so in 2008 America decided to vote for the real thing.
David Reynolds | Why Washington fails us
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Before we go any any further let us make it clear that our title is not directed solely at our current president. Or his administration. Or the Democrats who control Congress. Past presidents, administrations and Congresses – of both parties – have been guilty of the same crime. And what is this crime? Guilty of…
‘I never really gave up’
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I could imagine L.D. Cox as the gregarious 19-year-old who helped deliver the first atomic bomb across the Pacific. “Don’t shoot!” he said in mock surrender as he made his way across the drill field at Fishburne Military School on a sunny late-March afternoon, passing a cannon that was going to be fired a little…
Lighted ballfield a coming reality in Waynesboro
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Waynesboro will soon have its first lighted youth baseball field. That’s the news Monday afternoon with word that the city has received approval of a Baseball Tomorrow grant in the amount of $124,694 that will be used to build a brand-new baseball facility at North Park.
David Reynolds | Government Motors
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Excuse me. Have you bought your new GM car or GMC truck yet? You better hurry. The new Government Motors Corporation has some very special offers. Only partial monthly payments if you get laid off. Plus the best warranty program your tax money can buy. Not some piece of paper the former GM used to…
David Cox | Advantageous adversity
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Who wants adversity? I don’t. Fat times are much more fun than lean ones. But down years have certain advantages. They can recall basic values. They can reveal one’s shortcomings—no, that’s not an especially pleasant reality to face, but how can one move from weakness to strength without knowing where one’s weaknesses are? They can…
David Cox | The state of humanity
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We interrupt this near-weekly commentary on what’s going on in wider Virginia to contemplate what’s going on in the human race. It’s just that kind of week.
