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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum announced today that, with the assistance of Sen. Mark Warner it recently acquired a collection of 120 Signal Corps photographs from President Wilson’s trip to Europe for the Paris Peace Conference following World War I. Many of the photographs are of President Wilson. Barbara Rohmann of Fairfax County,…
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Michael Hayes has just won his professional wrestling debut match over his teacher, Nick Dinsmore, in dramatic fashion. The hometown crowd was cheering the young Iraq veteran on all the way, so it’s one of those nice moments in sports where the fans get to go home happy. A fan comes up to shake Hayes’…
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Public employees and unions have been getting a bad rap lately. As tax revenues have declined along with the value of public pension funds, government workers have been getting stuck with part of the blame for our current financial crisis. Local and state budgets have to be reduced to be in balance with revenue, but…
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We can either pay now or we can pay more, later. For once I concur with a spending bill that hit Gov. Bob McDonnell’s desk before the legislative session crosses the finish line. This is the just over $18 million price tag to more than double the amount of time Fairfax County elementary school students…
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We have all heard the story of Romeo and Juliet, either through the original story or through the hundreds of adaptations. We know the characters, the star-crossed lovers, the polarized families, the hate, the passion, the tragedy. The fact that we already know this, and expect what was originally unexpected, makes it seemingly hard to…
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Think about your mailbox. When was the last time you received a letter? Magazines, bills, business promotions, and newsletters do not count, just a genuine personal letter from a friend, sister, brother, cousin, old classmate, or neighbor. Been a while? How about the last time you sent one yourself? We live in an age of…
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With adult supervision being restored in the governor’s mansions in Madison, Wisc.I, Columbus, Ohio, Richmond, Va. and Trenton, N.J., the GOP is keeping its promises of cutting budgets – and not with a scalpel, but with the necessary hacksaw. In abject cowardice, Wisconsin’s 14 Democratic state senators fled the Dairy State to shun their jobs,…
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Thousands of short stories, novels, TV series and movies include coming-of-age stories. A young boy must fill his father’s shoes and take care of the family, a young girl moves away from home and must make it on her own, a warrior must go off and kill something yadda yadda yadda. It’s the idea of…
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The February issue of The New Dominion Magazine is on the streets at locations in Waynesboro, Staunton and Harrisonburg – and is also posted online at TheNewDominion.com. This month’s features: Women at work: Two women share their experiences climbing the corporate ladder Profiles of new Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce president…
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The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum will sponsor a student mock press conference on Friday, Feb. 18, at 2 p.m. in the school forum at Beverley Manor Middle School. Judd Bankert, portraying President Woodrow Wilson, will take questions from 21 Beverley Manor seventh-graders acting as reporters, and student Cole Fainter will portray President Wilson’s…
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