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– Perriello criticizes tobacco tax in SCHIP bill, Wednesday, 1:40 p.m. – Conservation easements top 100,000 acres in Valley, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – Treasury announces new restrictions on executive compensation, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House GOP pushing mental-health reforms, Wednesday, 12:50 p.m. – House bill allowing government-sanctioned sectarian prayers at government meetings unconstitutional, ACLU says,…
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Our legislators are back at it in Richmond. A couple of weeks into a session that, everyone knows, has got to tackle some excruciating budgetary problems, they seem — as so often — to have produced more heat than light. I often wonder what they’re thinking. Especially when someone comes up with a good, if…
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“Hope is not a strategy.” So said Chuck Barger, quoting an Air Force maxim, as he introduced officials speaking at Jan. 6’s community breakfast. How right he is. In my last column, I wrote of the hope that surrounds and infuses us, despite realities that became all too local with the closing of the truck…
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I’ve just read Leonard Gilroy’s Dec. 31, 2008 story concerning Virginia Gov. Kaine’s proposal to close The Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents. I feel that he has reported on only one side of this controversial story. There is much more to it. I, for one, believe that equal time should have been given to the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Barack Obama had two words Friday for supporters who want to think that he has the ’08 presidential election sewn up. “New Hampshire.” “We were up 10 in the polls the day before the election, and we ended up losing. We were up in Texas and Ohio, we…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Since my time as your governor,” Jim Gilmore writes in a fundraising letter that went out last week, “I have routinely been vilified by the biased liberal media, by the state Democratic Party and even by the liberal tax-and-spend members of my own party. Why? Because I promised…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Another afternoon, another dinner with a few dozen friends, another few thousand dollars to take back to the campaign treasurer, which ought to keep what could turn out to be a $25 million election going for, well, another hour or two, at the least. Creigh Deeds has been down this…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: Did GOP have ulterior motives in pushing transportation stalemate? I ask that in light of the talk today about how the ongoing stalemate could impact Kaine’s chances for being named the #2 man on the Barack Obama ticket. I would suspect that kicking Timmy in the shins to keep…
