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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s Thanksgiving – and on this day when we are supposed to reflect on reasons that we all have to be thankful, I thought it appropriate to muse on the reasons that newsmakers in Virginia might have to be thankful this holiday season. Ahem. Here goes.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine knows how important agriculture is to the Virginia economy. CNBC doesn’t – but we can forgive them. I mean, they’re based in New York. Ahem.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] OK, so they have a bigger building – a much, much bigger building. But the fanfare over the formal opening of the new Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Harrisonburg Regional Laboratory and Office is about more than additional space. “There have been a lot of concerns that people…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The 27th Senate District is still a Republican Senate district – but that doesn’t mean that Democrats will throw in the towel following the bitter defeat of nominee Karen Schultz in Tuesday’s election.
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Story by Chris Graham Carded Graphics is investing $6.5 million in its Staunton manufacturing facility in a move that will create 35 new jobs in the Queen City.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The 27th Senate District promised to be a wide-open affair even before moderate Republican Sen. Russ Potts announced his retirement plans. But now with Potts out of the picture, the battle between his successor as the Republican standard-bearer in the district that stretches from Winchester in the Shenandoah Valley…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham He had to fend off perhaps the fight of his political life in June with a party-primary challenge from Rockbridge County businessman Scott Sayre. With the change of seasons from summer to fall, 24th District Republican Sen. Emmett Hanger would seem to have if not the second-biggest fight of…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Every so often, we sit here around the office and wonder out loud who would play us in the movie – you know, if somebody ever made a movie about life at The New Dominion. (A tragihorradvencomiromanuementary, I’m guessing. I’m sure it would win an Academy Award. Maybe…
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Story by Chris Graham We’re facing a budget shortfall, and it’s only going to get worse. The Democratic governor is telling us so – and in short order, he’s going to tell us that we need to raise taxes to meet our core needs. The year is 2003 – or is it 2007? “When you…
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Story by Chris Graham Republicans have had a tight grip on legislative seats in the Shenandoah Valley in recent years – but Karen Schultz isn’t focused on the political past.
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