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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s now law – and U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., couldn’t be any happier about the New GI Bill that he helped bring to fruition. “This is a great day for our veterans. This bill properly provides a modern and fair educational benefit to address the needs of those who…
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn Raise your hands if you know Yemen sold 13,000 barrels of crude oil and products each and every day during 2007 to the United States. OK, just raise your hands if you heard of Yemen in the first place. Yemen? Yes, Yemen. “Oh, good one! And ‘Yemen,’ that actually sounds…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Most of us agree that Virginia has itself a roads problem. You don’t have to sit in traffic for too long in Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads or Richmond or deal with congestion on U.S. 29 in Charlottesville or Interstate 81 anywhere in Western Virginia to recognize that much. The…
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Op-Ed by Adam Sharp U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) decided last week to decline the $85 million available to him in taxpayer funds for the general election. I hope all candidates eventually do the same.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “The market is closed.” That’s the quick rendering from Gregg Doud, the chief economist at the Washington, D.C.,-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, regarding the access that U.S. beef producers currently have to the China market. Which is to say, none. This would seem to shed…
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Op-Ed by Al Weed Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more The Senate debate on the Lieberman-Warner bill to reduce carbon emissions was the first serious national recognition of the challenge of climate change. Al Gore’s Nobel Prize notwithstanding, until an effort to change our energy culture through public policy is made, the U.S. is…
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Column by Jim Bishop Scarcely a day goes by in my work that I don’t consult my trusty Webster’s Ninth for help with spelling, punctuation, capitalization or geographic references. Problem with a dictionary, however, is that you need to know how to spell the word in order to locate it. And, once found, the definition(s)…
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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more “The GI Bill gives emphatic notice to the men and women in our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on signing the original G.I Bill for returning veterans The Iraq and Afghanistan…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Earth Talk From the editors of E/The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: The 2008 Summer Olympics in China are drawing a lot of attention right now for political reasons. I’ve heard, though, that one ray of light is China’s effort to make the event as green as possible. What’s going on in that regard? – Josh…
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