Ken Plum: General Assembly goes off a cliff
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The General Assembly adjourned sine die last week with a great sigh of relief from most everyone who participates in or follows its deliberations
Search Results for The Neighbor Bridge
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AmeriCorps positions at BC to benefit Harrisonburg community
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Three AmeriCorps VISTA positions that will help revitalize a needy Harrisonburg neighborhood are now available at Bridgewater College
David Reynolds: The Electoral Mirror
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Elections are not just about winners and losers. They are about you and me, the electorate who voted for those who won and lost. Thus, an election is a mirror of ourselves. So, what did we say about ourselves? We laid out a comfort zone. If a candidate was outside of it, he or she…
Transcript: President’s remarks to UN
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Mr. President, Mr. Secretary General, fellow delegates, ladies and gentlemen: It is a great honor for me to be here today. I would like to talk to you about a subject that is at the heart of the United Nations – the pursuit of peace in an imperfect world. War and conflict have been with…
Presidential address on jobs
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Tonight we meet at an urgent time for our country. We continue to face an economic crisis that has left millions of our neighbors jobless, and a political crisis that’s made things worse. This past week, reporters have been asking, “What will this speech mean for the President? What will it mean for Congress? How…
Waynesboro awarded $320K for greenway project
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The Virginia Department of Transportation’s Commonwealth Transportation Board has awarded the City of Waynesboro $320,000 in Federal Transportation Enhancement Program funds for Phase Two of the South River Greenway Trail Project. The grant money will fund the planning, design and partial construction of a 1.2 mile trail that extends from the Dominion Virginia Power Pavilion…
Talat Hamdani: Investigating Muslims or coming together as Americans?
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As a proud New Yorker and the mother of a first responder who lost his life on September 11, 2001, I am saddened to learn that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is planning on holding congressional hearings on March 10 on the “radicalization of American Muslims.” My son Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a 23-year-old paramedic, a…
Health officials: Flu ‘widespread’ in Virginia
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Flu activity has reached the “widespread” stage in Virginia, and activity also has increased lately in the Central Shenandoah Health District. Local health departments are seeing an increase in case reports, and local hospital emergency departments and urgent care centers in the health district are also starting to see cases. “The flu season got off…
Jim Bishop: David Shenk heeds the siren’s song
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David H. Shenk is leaving his home in Harrisonburg for South America on Sunday, Dec. 5, and doesn’t expect to return for two years. It’s a long time to be gone, but he’s ready to put into action that which he feels prepared to do. Shenk, 23, was born at Shenandoah Hospital in Woodstock, Va.,…
Jim Bishop: Listen … remember? They’re playing our song
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“While listening to the radio just now I heard an instrumental rendition of ‘This is My Father’s World,’ and, when I hear that song, I picture our (late) mother standing up front, leading rows of children in singing that particular song when she was in charge of music during Vacation Bible School at the Doylestown…
