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“Which one of your candidates is the one that fired his campaign manager?” I happened to be standing at the Staunton-Augusta Democratic Party booth at the Augusta County Fair last week when that question was directed at a volunteer. The reference was to a report from University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato from earlier…
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“You’d think he could get somebody to vote with him every once in a while,” a friend who is a longtime local Republican leader was telling me this week at the Augusta County Fair about Dickie Bell, the GOP nominee in the 20th House District. I had just said something to her about how I…
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You’re on the spot, Coach Matthews. Are your JMU Dukes a playoff team this year? “That’s a good question. We’re pretty good. I think we’ll be – we think every team is going to be better than the team we had last year. I don’t know about playoffs,” Matthews began his answer to the reporter’s…
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Sen. Creigh Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor, announced the formation of Nurses for Deeds on Thursday in Portsmouth. Sen. Deeds, Sen. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth) and retired nurse Anne Rawley spoke about the challenges that face the health care system in Virginia, and the significant differences between Deeds and his opponent on choice and women’s…
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So I’m discussing with the campaign manger for a local Democratic House of Delegates candidate the new push from the Creigh Deeds campaign that has the Deeds camp talking up Republican Bob McDonnell’s social-conservative advocacy and ties to controversial televangelist Pat Robertson one afternoon this week, and I’m relating how much I think the move…
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In a momentous victory for clean energy advocates in Virginia, a Richmond Circuit Court judge ruled today that the State Air Pollution Control Board violated federal environmental law in permitting Dominion Power’s coal-fired power plant in Wise County in the southwest corner of the state.
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Remember how 20th District Republican nominee Dickie Bell told The News Virginian a couple of weeks ago that he was “a little disappointed” to have been informed by the news media that Democratic opponent Erik Curren wanted to schedule a series of debates for voters, and that he would talk to Curren to “work out…
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Friday, Aug. 14 – Local News: RMH employees pass gift goal Thursday, Aug. 13 – Local News: Staunton City Council meeting tonight – State News: Good economic news in Martinsville Wednesday, Aug. 12 – Local News: Augusta County Board of Supervisors meeting agenda Tuesday, Aug. 11 – State News: Jail agrees to change policies regarding…
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The Washington Wizards announced that the team will conduct their 2009 training camp at the Siegel Center on the campus of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond for the sixth consecutive season.
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It’s over. Almost heaven won. Heaven lost. That once both feared and loved army of Boy Scouts will not be coming to East Virginia every four years. No, the National Boys Scouts Jamboree will be heading west to the other Virginia. They will still be using Interstate 64, but there will be no stopping in…
