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My wife had a medical emergency early one recent morning. The details are unimportant, but the care and response that we received were very important. At five a.m., she called her doctor and got him on the phone. He said we should call 911, which we did. Within a few minutes both a paramedic vehicle…
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The financial, economic and environmental crises are alarm signals to the world, and particularly to us in the U.S. Acting on the basis of a fragmented worldview while globalization magnified and quickened that worldview’s effects, we rushed into unsustainable and destructive practices. On the other hand, we now have an opportunity to build the foundation…
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Recently, a group of more than a dozen superintendents and school officials from around the Fifth District had the opportunity to sit down with U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to talk about the challenges and opportunities in our education system. I convened this roundtable to give school districts the opportunity to communicate directly with…
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Monday, Oct. 19 Press Secretary Robert Gibbs is joined in the press briefing by Dr. Jared Bernstei, deputy assistant to the president on economic policy, and Melody Barnes, director of the Domestic Policy Council. MR. GIBBS: Good after – or good morning, I should say. Sorry, I’m used to doing this in the afternoon. Before…
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This is just a wild guess on my part. But I believe that Ben Cline was an outstanding wrestler in college. How else can you explain that no one has ever been able to pin him down? I know I have not. Following Bates College, Virginia’s 24th District delegate earned a law degree from the…
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Dirk Robertson has a home away from home in the UK – in Waynesboro. “I have always believed in the positive effect writing, as an art, can have on the community, in general. That’s what made me want to come,” said Robertson, an author and novelist who makes an annual trek across the pond for…
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“I don’t need maternity care.” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) lobbed this comment against Sen. Debbie Stabenow’s (D-Mich.) efforts to guarantee maternity coverage as a basic benefit in health-care reform. “Your mom probably did,” Stabenow famously shot back. That exchange and the wave of support that followed for Stabenow’s proposals illustrates how out of step Kyl…
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U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., this week sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Subcommittee on Interior Appropriations requesting that the Civil War Battlefield Preservation Program be funded at the House-supported level of $9 million in the FY 2010 Interior-Environment Appropriations bill.
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Thursday, Oct. 8 MR. GIBBS: Just one quick announcement before we get going. I want to give you a readout of a call between the President and Prime Minister Gordon Brown as part of their ongoing consultations and the special U.S.-U.K. relationship. They talked to each other this morning and discussed several key issues on…
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I can hardly make it a day without somebody asking me a variation of that question. It’s known on both sides of the political fence that soon-to-be-former Republican State Del. Chris Saxman and I are bipartisan birds of a feather, in a manner of speaking. “So surely, Chris, you’d know, if anybody would, what Chris…
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