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The Top Story by Chris Graham It’s politics to some people – the debate over a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution that would prohibit gays and lesbians from being able to enter into a state-recognized marriage or civil union. For those whose lives would be impacted directly by the much-talked-about change to the…
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Story by Chris Graham The big news in Harrisonburg today wasn’t that former presidential hopeful Mark Warner was in town with Senate nominee Jim Webb. It was that an event organized by Valley Democrats drew more than 400 people on a weekday afternoon. “I said to Jim on the way in here, I’ve had an…
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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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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham A group of former University of Virginia football teammates of U.S. Sen. George Allen alleges that the former quarterback regularly used the n-word to refer to African-Americans. A second group of the Republican’s former teammates has stepped up to say that this is not true. Meanwhile, the state’s…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The conventional wisdom is that the military vote and veteran vote both tend to lean strongly in the Republican direction – but Democratic Party Senate nominee Jim Webb, a Vietnam War veteran and former Reagan administration Navy secretary, might just be able to turn the conventional wisdom on…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner sure has come a long way since the days when his claim to political fame was that he once came in second among candidates with the surname Warner in a United States Senate race. The former one-term Virginia governor is now considered by more than a…
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Story by Chris Graham Last year it was baseball. Now it’s Floyd Landis and Justin Gatlin … and baseball. The issue of the use of performance-enhancing drugs by athletes continues to get scads of press – and you know what that means.
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I went to see “Talladega Nights” over the weekend, and, well … It wasn’t “Animal House.” Here we go again – he’s going to go on about how “Animal House” changed the world. That is how I judge the quality of a comedy. “Seven years of college down…
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Story by Chris Graham Jack Bedell is, by day, a poet and college professor in Louisiana. On nights and weekends, though, Bedell is a football fanatic – and his football of choice is Canadian. “Everything that we like in the modern era about the NFL, and then with the rise in popularity of the Arena…
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