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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] And just like that, we had ourselves a bailout rescue. The House voted 263-171 today to pass a compromise $850 billion plan to buy up securities from Wall Street lenders to take pressure off the financial and credit markets, just four days after a vote on a similar legislative proposal…
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Column by Haresh Daswani George Bush has just officially declared something that, bluntly stated, would say, “Ladies and Gentlemen, We are in deep deep trouble, and I will be off in 40 days, thank God.” The bigger question is, didn’t anyone see this coming? Wasn’t anyone able to think of how to stop this from…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] My in-box was hopping Friday evening with forwards of the e-mail from Anne Kilkenny of Wasilla, Alaska, which you might recognize as the town made famous by former mayor-turned-vice-presidential-nominee Sarah Palin. Seems that e-mail trees can and do make their way to Greater Augusta. “You should check this out –…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The House of Representatives has passed back to the Senate a bill that would help homeowners caught up in the ongoing foreclosure crisis, even as a pair of Virginia congressmen facing re-election battles voted against the measure. “Congressman Goode is clearly out of touch with the honest, hardworking people of…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Considering what we’ve had to go through with Michael Vick over the course of the past year, I’m not all that fond of the phrase Don’t have a dog in this fight anymore, but when it comes to the ongoing mess involving the Augusta County GOP, I really don’t have…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner made it a point to tell Virginia politics reporters covering the final year of his term as governor of the Old Dominion that he really felt he was hitting his stride in the job – and while the focus of their editors seemed to be on…
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FCC chair Brendan Carr wants to change a federal rule that bars a single multimedia company from reaching more than 39 percent of U.S. households.
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The SAVE Act that Ben Cline voted for in the U.S. House is all but dead in the U.S. Senate, with two Republican senators signaling that they are no-gos on the bill that Donald Trump envisions throwing elections forevermore to the MAGA side.
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The five MAGAs representing Virginia in the U.S. House, four of whom are lame ducks, want Gov. Abigail Spanberger to rescind her executive order terminating existing agreements for local law-enforcement agencies in the Commonwealth to work with ICE.
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Virginia’s six-member Democratic U.S. House delegation is collectively urging the director of the Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to extend the Open Enrollment period through May 1, 2026.
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