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Column by Jim Bishop Jenny Hummel of Weyers Cave, our daughter, won’t forget the time and place when she was told for certain – son Jacob, our grandson, has autism. She and husband Dallas knew for some time that “something was wrong” with their youngest son. He had difficulty responding to voices, seldom maintained eye…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline Under Article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, “no regular session of the General Assembly convened in an even-numbered year shall continue longer than sixty days.” That means that the 2008 session should have adjourned for the year on Saturday, March 8. However, as the hours passed last Saturday,…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell The Virginia General Assembly has finished the majority of its work. Bills that passed both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have now been sent to Gov. Tim Kaine for consideration. The more significant legislation from the 2008 session includes: • The most sweeping overhaul of…
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Story by Jim Bishop Herbert G. (Herb) Weaver Jr. sees his artwork as “an exclamation against boredom.” “I create art because I’m addicted to the process – the unexplainable surge of inspiration, the development of an idea, the construction process and intimacy with the material and finally the presentation,” the former Harrisonburg resident says. Weaver,…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte For many students and families, there is the promise of higher education. But for far too many others, the burden of tuition costs is seemingly insurmountable. In Virginia, undergraduate students are paying nearly 7 percent more in tuition and fees than they did last year. The skyrocketing cost of higher education…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with Eastern Mennonite University track star Chelsea Lawhorn. Show Length: 7:07. “I hope to hit 40 feet by the time I graduate.” And so it is that Chelsea Lawhorn has thrown down the gauntlet. The Eastern Mennonite University junior is already one…
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Column by Steve Landes This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring a discussion of sports in American society with Eastern Mennonite University athletics director Dave King. Show Length: 25:53. You wouldn’t expect an athletics director at a university to be preaching the message that sports has become too much an obsession in today’s culture. It’d…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jeff Ryman got the buzz. Carnegie Hall was on the line. Could he take the call? He knew what it had to be about. And he knew it was going to be amazing news. “I was alone in the choral suite, nobody around. And I sort of felt like I…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell With the worsening budget numbers, the House of Delegates released its biennial budget. Unlike the governor’s budget, the House budget does not cut $220 million in school construction and lottery money that was going to local schools. These cuts would have cost my four local school divisions over $3…
