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Column by Bob Goodlatte With the holiday season fully upon us, and the rush to complete last-minute Christmas-present purchases under way, it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, and in the process somehow lose sight of more important things.
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Best Seat in the House by Chris Graham [email protected] Two questions have my attention right now regarding Michael Vick. One, was 23 months enough for leading a dogfighting ring and personally participating in the executions of several dogs that had been deemed not up to standards to complete in the bloodsport? Two, is 23 months going to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So there’s this study out there that seems to indicate that women think – well, if you ask them, they know – that they have to work harder at their jobs than men. Now, being a man who thinks himself that he has to work pretty hard, and over the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’d heard so much about the guy from Scotland who makes his way to the Valley every year for the Book ‘Em book festival – but other than a passing hello, I had never spoken with Dirk Robertson until, as luck would have it, we were seated beside each other…
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Eleven – yes, eleven – people want to be the new clerk of court in Rockingham County. But the race for the $123,000-a-year job seems to be coming down to the two major-party nominees. “I really think it’s going to be a two-person race,” Bridgewater College history and political-science professor…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Nancy Sorrells is running for her first re-election to the Riverheads District seat on the Augusta County Board of Supervisors in next month’s general elections. The independent will face the challenge of a Republican Party nominee, farmer Michael Shull, on the Nov. 6 ballot. Sorrells and Shull both talked…
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Story by Chris Graham Brent Finnegan is on the immigration issue where many of us are. “It’s a mess,” said Finnegan, the director and producer of “Virginia Reports: The Latino Underground,” a documentary that will air on WVPT-Virginia’s Public Television beginning Oct. 22. “There are conflicting solutions,” said Finnegan, who spent a year putting together…
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Story by Jim Bishop The Alumni Association of Eastern Mennonite University honored two of its graduates Sunday for their work in reflecting the school’s vision, mission and values. Dr. Ingida Asfaw, 67, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., a 1962 EMU graduate with a double major in biology and chemistry, and originally from Ethiopia, received EMU’s 2007…
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Column by Sam Rasoul The practice of work-related health insurance began as a way for employers to get around the wage controls of the Second World War. The idea worked then, providing companies a way to attract the best workers in a time of labor shortage. Today, though, corporations find providing health insurance for their…
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