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Friday, Aug. 14 – Remarks by the president in town hall on health care, Belgrade, Mont.

Friday, Aug. 14 – Remarks by the president in town hall on health care, Belgrade, Mont.

Monday, Aug. 10 – Press conference with President Obama, Mexican President Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Harper in Guadalajara, Mexico – Press gaggle by Deputy Press Secretary Bill Burton

Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009 – Remarks by the president on the economy, Wakarusa, Ind. – President announces $2.4 billion in grants to accelerate the manufacturing and deployment of the next generation of U.S. batteries and electric vehicles – Statement by president on the release of Laura Ling and Euna Lee – President Obama’s message to…

It was a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, Minn. Ditto for Rockbridgeland, Va. Except here the summer sun was hotter than up north. It may have baked a few brains. How else can you explain our local happenings? We all know that when you spend too much time in the noon day sun the mind…

I’m about as on the outside of the controversy over the disorderly-conduct arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. as you can be, but since everybody else is weighing in … I can see why both Gates, the director of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research at…

– Press briefing with Robert Gibbs, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Pool report on Obama health-care town hall – Remarks of President Barack Obama at Health Care Town Hall in Annandale, Va., Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Q-and-A from the health-care town hall – Vice President Biden launches broadband initiative

We can neither confirm or deny that this is what Creigh Deeds said Tuesday, June 9, in his Charlottesville Omni hotel room as the election returns came in showing him routing his two opponents, and now standing just one election away from being the next governor of Virginia. And that is not a bad place…

– Local News: Delays on I-81 in Rockbridge – Local News: WWRC trail receives VCC recognition – Event: Longaberger bingo to benefit Food Bank – Politics: will.i.am cuts McAuliffe radio spot – Politics: Wagner gets PAC endorsement

Everybody knows Sophie. That, and it’s not as long a walk from the 500 block of Chestnut to Berkeley Glenn as I’d thought it might be.

Imagine this: Fire breaks out in your next-door neighbor’s house. It endangers yours. Fortunately our faithful fire departments respond quickly. Unfortunately—this would never happen here, but remember, we’re imagining—one of the squads needs to use your hose. The squad has the water; all they need, urgently, is your hose.
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