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– Local News: Valley Community Services Board gets state grant to establish Crisis Intervention Team – Event: Author explores POWs in Valley in WWII – Event: Shenandoah Valley Bicycle Festival set for July 11
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Kent Willis | Remembering Jack Kemp for another passion: Voter-restoration reform in Virginia
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Much has been written about Jack Kemp since his passing a couple of weeks ago. Kemp was a former football star turned congressman who served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first President Bush and was the 1996 Republican vice-presidential nominee. He was a pragmatist who became well known for reaching across…
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– Local News: Road in Western Augusta closed – Event: Civil War Roundtable meeting – Event: What’s a Ben Worth? – State News: National Foster Care Month
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– State News: State joins effort to raise English, math standards, posted Monday, 9:50 a.m. – Event: Networking luncheon features speaker from Goodwill Industries, posted Monday, 9:50 a.m.
David Cox | Fighting fires and unemployment
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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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– Local News: Swine flu cases confirmed in Lexington, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Event: Art collection will help create healing environment, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Local News: DCCU announces scholarship winners, posted Saturday, 9:30 a.m. – Capitol Hill: Perriello-sponsored protections for consumers facing excessive credit fees pass House, posted Friday, 9:10 a.m. –…
Kent Willis | Virginia Fusion Center’s assessment of terrorist threat begs for assessment of Fusion Center
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Recently an alarming document titled 2009 Virginia Terrorism Threat Assessment appeared on the Internet. Produced by the Virginia Fusion Center, it is chocked full of assertions about terrorist activities in the state that will leave readers trembling with fear (if they believe it) or infuriated by governmental incompetence and prejudice (if they don’t believe it).
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– Local News: Federal stimulus money to aid area gang prevention, posted Wednesday, 9:30 p.m. – State News: Kaine disputes Fusion Center report, posted Wednesday, 9:45 a.m. – Event: Derby Days in Lexington, posted Wednesday, 9:45 a.m. – Event: Farms and energy conference, posted Wednesday, 9:45 a.m.
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– Capitol Hill: Warner introduces bipartisan legislation aimed at increasing TARP transparency, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Webb backs Senate measure aimed at strengthening government oversight in mortgage, corporate fraud cases, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News: Kaine signs agreement with Germany on climate change, posted Tuesday, 4 p.m. – State News:…
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– State News: Governor prepares Virginia for swine flu, posted Monday, 9 p.m. – State News: Ordinance banning panhandlers pulled off table in Richmond, posted Monday, 9 p.m. – Event: Yoga, human rights focus of one-woman show in Charlottesville, posted Monday, 11 a.m. – Event: Friday Night Lights in Downtown Lexington this week, posted Monday,…
