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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] We plebeians descended on the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club like a Mongolian horde. One of the perks of volunteering at the President’s Cup last fall was playing a round of golf at the stomping ground of the elite, so we charged the gates, ready for our…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The term Bush-hater today doesn’t carry with it the stigma that it used to. One piece of evidence suggesting that is that more and more people on the left – and even in the amorphous center – are for whatever reason embracing the label. You would think from listening…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Democrats are salivating at the prospect of being able to ride the wave of the political scandals involving Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham long enough that they can take back control of the United States Congress in the November midterm elections. Don’t expect the wave to crash down…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The extension of daylight-saving time in 2007 will save 300,000 barrels of oil annually. So say supporters of the decision by Congress earlier this year to add a month to the clock-altering move.
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Story by Chris Graham Political observers across the Commonwealth have the 26th House District race on their radar screens – and for good reason. The contest between Democrat Lowell Fulk and Republican Matt Lohr is very much a toss-up at this stage – which is headline news for a political campaign in the Republican-leaning Shenandoah…
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Story by Chris Graham Virginia Gov. Mark Warner wants to take the national Democratic Party back to the political center where it enjoyed success in the 1990s. A Shenandoah Valley political analyst, for his part, isn’t so sure that is the right course of action for the party’s future.
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] The Pinehurst Trip is over, and after a week down there, it seems to me that there is something almost enchanted, at least in a golf sense, about Pinehurst. It’s a place of convergence, like the traffic circle just outside of the Village itself, and all roads…
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] It’s February. That means some slim green fingers, tulips to be, stretch out from soil softened by the sun after another night’s freeze, seeking Gulf moisture in the air, and some warmth, which lingers a day or two before Canada blows hard again and reminds us…
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Story by Steven Sisson Poet Robert Frost wrote, “I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.” But what about being a … radical conservative? That could be the best description for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik out there. Badnarik, 50, is a baby boomer – nothing…
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Compiled by Chris Graham Tim Spears was surveying the damage wrought by the South River on his downtown-Waynesboro music store Friday afternoon. “It could’ve been a lot worse,” said Spears, owner of Tim Spears’ Music City – which is located just a city block away from the South River. Spears estimated the damage to his…
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