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– Reminder: Green Valley/Green Economy forum tonight – Local News: Chester to provide update on assessments lawsuit – Local News: Harrisonburg company wins top award for TV commercial – Local News: Opportunity to provide input on state transportation spending – Business News: DuPont Community Credit Union announces election results – Business News: Downtown-housing workshop in…
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– Local News: Valley Community Services Board gets state grant to establish Crisis Intervention Team – Event: Author explores POWs in Valley in WWII – Event: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Festival set for July 11
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Our recent efforts in Washington are focused on consumer relief and protection as we continue working to reinvigorate our sluggish economy. I am very hopeful that, by mid-summer, we will have a much clearer picture of whether our efforts to create jobs through smart, long-overdue investments in our country’s future have taken hold.
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Much has been written about Jack Kemp since his passing a couple of weeks ago. Kemp was a former football star turned congressman who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first President Bush and was the 1996 Republican vice-presidential nominee. He was a pragmatist who became well known for reaching across…
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A workshop on childhood obesity has been set for Wednesday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to noon at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave.
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No new polls on the Democratic Party gubernatorial race, but I’m guessing Terry McAuliffe is still comfortably ahead of fellow Dems Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran, judging by the attack ads being thown at McAuliffe by the Deeds and Moran campaigns.
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– Local News: Waynesboro Police joining in Click It or Ticket effort – Local News: Ayers addresses BC grads
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Is this a great country or what? In what other country can you lead a company into the pits, and still make a fortune? Last Saturday’s Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined the story of executives of a bankrupted local financial corporation asking for nearly $30 million in severance pay.
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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…
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Fought in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the May 15, 1864, Battle of New Market won lasting fame for 257 Virginia Military Institute cadets, who helped a pick-up group of Confederates turn back a Union offensive.
