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Staff Report www.ltgov.virginia.gov Virginia Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell announced tody that Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling will serve in his Cabinet as Virginia’s Chief Jobs Creation Officer. “Bill Bolling is about to become the busiest lieutenant governor in America,” said McDonnell, confirming that Bolling will also chair his Job Creation and Economic Opportunity Task Force and…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] A downtown visioning session sponsored by the City of Waynesboro, the Waynesboro Redevelopment and Housing Authority and Waynesboro Downtown Development Inc. is set for Thursday, Dec. 10, in the City Council Chambers at the Charles T. Yancey Municipal Building, 503 W. Main St. All city residents and downtown stakeholders…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The only thing Kat Carr was missing – “a bullhorn.” “Otherwise, yeah, I’d say it was kind of like the TV show,” said Carr, one of 25 Waynesboro Home Depot store employees that spent most of their days on Tuesday volunteering their time on the Rebuilding Together project at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike London is back for a third stint on the sidelines at Scott Stadium, this time as the man in charge of righting the course of the wayward University of Virginia football ship. “I will make winning a priority, but also by doing it the right way, and also…
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Staff UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com CRAIG LITTLEPAGE (director of athletics): Good afternoon, everybody. And we appreciate your taking time to be with us this afternoon to conduct some very important business as it relates to our football program. I want to reiterate the message that Jim brought us from President Casteen. He’s deeply disappointed that…
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Column by David Reynolds Columns, letters: [email protected] Last time we painted a bleak budget picture, saying that this year’s public budgets are worse than last year’s, but not as bad as next year’s. In my old Washington Bureau of the Budget days it allowed us to put away the usual governmental garbage that we…
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com The University of Virginia has called a press conference for Monday in which it is expected to name University of Richmond coach Mike London as the new head football coach at UVa. London has led UR to a 24-5 record in his two seasons at his alma mater, and…
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Staff Report EMU sports: www.emu.edu The Eastern Mennonite University men’s basketball team dominated throughout in a 97-44 win at Penn State-Brandywine Saturday. EMU shot 58 percent from the field, hitting 37 of 64 shots. The Royals were also 9-of-18 from three-point range. Of the men’s 37 field goals, 24 were assisted. D.J. Hinson (Newport…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] What’s wrong with America, if you ask Laurence Verga, isn’t just with the direction that the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress is taking, but what their Republican predecessors did, or rather didn’t do, ahead of them. “One of the reasons our country is in the challenged position it…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It all sounded good. A Small Business Administration workshop leader told a group of small-business owners in Harrisonburg this past summer about a new loan program funded under the Recovery Act that was designed to help struggling small-business owners deal with short-term cash-flow issues resulting from the ongoing financial…
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