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Tom Perriello statement on House passage of stimulus package, 6:54 p.m. Remarks by President Obama after meeting with Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs, 6:17 p.m. Norfolk, Roanoke papers force employees to furlough, 6:13 p.m. South Korean students to visit Presidential Library, 6:07 p.m. Motorists should expect lane closure tonight on I-81, 3:23 p.m. Airfares highest…
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When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas. Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service…
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So Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is interested in letting a few “good” prisoners out of the gray bar hotel 90 days early as a cost-cutting measure claiming they are “nonviolent offenders who have been model inmates” and were due for a 30-day early dismissal, according to an article written by Anthony Barkow of New York.
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Two and a half cents a can or bottle. Fifteen cents a six-pack. A whopping 30 cents a case. That’s what Bruce Elder would have you paying in a new beer tax that would provide localities in Virginia with funding long ago promised by the Virginia General Assembly for local law enforcement that rarely comes…
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Column by Steven Sisson Halloween is a time for dressing up in a costume and wearing a mask and having fun. But grownups wear masks, too, especially politicians, and more than ever Republicans are masking the truth behind their agenda. According to nationwide polls, 70 percent of leaders can’t be trusted. The Blue Dog says…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] SPAM-A-LOT: Seriously, ACLU, we don’t want no more of this spam stuff The ACLU sent out a press release today to tout its work on a case that led to a decision from the Supreme Court of Virginia striking down the state law banning spam on grounds that the law…
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Fear and Loathing on the Trail column by Chris Graham [email protected] A generous guy, that Jim Gilmore is. I got my hands on a piece of literature from the Gilmore Senate campaign that the local GOP was distributing last night at the Augusta County Fair. Quite rich, this thing was. It went into great detail…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Right now, you’re paying about two and a half cents a can in state excise taxes for every can or bottle of beer that you buy. If Bruce Elder were to have his way, you’d pay another two and a half cents, and then cities like Staunton that…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Alicia’s Law will double the capacity of law enforcement in Virginia to arrest online child predators. That was the message delivered yesterday at a news conference to talk up Alicia’s Law, a legislative initiative led by House Democratic Caucus chair Brian Moran this year.
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