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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A coalition of advocacy groups that filed a federal lawsuit last year to block the proposed $11.4 billion widening of Interstate 81 filed a motion in federal court in Charlottesville last week seeking a positive judgment in the case. “We have asked the court to require that (the Virginia Department…
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Column by David Reynolds I will never forget what the elephants failed to remember. In Buena Vista on Labor Day 2007 I was having my usual breakfast with them at the downtown American Legion Hall. There was no tribute! But up the hill at the high school where the donkeys were meeting a tribute was…
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Column by David Reynolds … then I must have breakfast in Buena Vista. But where? Up the hill at the high school or down in town at the American Legion Hall. With the Dems or with the Republicans? My usual choice is to breakfast downtown and hear what the elephants have to say. But as…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know, considering how much a gallon of gas is costing us today, and how dramatically much less we’re driving these days, maybe it’s not such a bad thing that our General Assembly left Richmond last month once again without having come up with a solution to our…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not just Republicans who are raising issue with the idea that Virginia needs to come up with more money to fix what Gov. Tim Kaine and other top Democrats have been saying for years is a transportation crisis in the Commonwealth.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Commonwealth Transportation Board has approved a $10.1 billion six-year transportation program that is $1.1 billion leaner and meaner due to the state’s ongoing roads-funding crisis.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] If you know me at all, you know that I’m a sucker for a good idea. The Staunton Creative Community Fund is a good idea.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Wondering how all the political talk about next week’s special legislative session on transportation and who will be willing to do what and the rest affects you? Check out the Virginia Department of Transportation website.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A wide load, indeed. A 28-foot-wide steel structure will be making its way up Interstate 81 from Southwest Virginia on its way to Baltimore this week, making traveling on the I-81 corridor more adventurous than usual.
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] I remember being excited seeing the word Crimora on the six-year plan. I was a cub reporter at The News Virginian, and my beat included Augusta County government. I was still wet behind the ears, but I was far enough along that the editor was letting me…
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