Virginia Democrats question Cuccinelli’s motives in UVa. case

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Party releases video on education issue Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli has “done serious harm to the integrity of our system of higher education,” Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Richard Cranwell said Friday, with his request for information relating to research conducted by former UVa. professor Michael Mann, a noted…

The Gulf Oil Spill: A Virginia Perspective

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   There’s only a “slim chance” that oil from the BP oil spill off the coast of Louisiana will end up washing ashore on beaches in Virginia, according to a James Madison University professor who is a Gulf Stream expert. “The Gulf Stream, as it travels eastward, reaches its closest proximity…

Ken Plum: Reforming and restructuring Virginia government

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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   Gov. Bob McDonnell is to be commended for appointing a Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring to “make government simpler and easier to use, more efficient and more effective.” The 30-person commission made up of businesspersons and legislators has an ambitious schedule of completing its initial report in two…

Population on the rise statewide

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  Staff Report News tips: [email protected] The rate of population growth in Virginia is increasing again for the first time since the beginning of the recession, according to the latest estimates from the Demographics and Workforce Group of the University of Virginia’s Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service. The Cooper Center’s population estimates are the…

Expert: Virginia headed toward transportation ‘catastrophe’

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  Item by Robert Brickhouse UVa. news: www.virginia.edu Virginia is headed toward a transportation “catastrophe” if state political leaders don’t act, according to a former state transportation commissioner. Ray Pethel made that assessment in a column in the latest issue of The Virginia News Letter published by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at…

Biscuit Run to become state park

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Former largest planned development in Albemarle history to be preserved as open space Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine on Wednesday announced the purchase of approximately 1,200 acres in Albemarle County known as “Biscuit Run” to be held by the state as a site for a future state park. “When developed as a…

State-written history

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   Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com My studies in history and political science at the institution that is now Old DominionUniversity were eye-opening, exciting and fulfilling, but my resulting bachelor of arts degree did not provide me any specific career training. That is why I entered a master in education program at the University of…

Live Blog | UVa.-Virginia Tech

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The day is here, and ACCVirginia.com will be live in Scott Stadium in Charlottesville for the annual in-state rivalry game between the University of Virginia Cavaliers and the Virginia Tech Hokies. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. The game is being broadcast on ABC-TV. Editor Chris Graham will be live in the press box providing…

Shepherd Bliss | Oklahoma City, Columbine, Virginia Tech and now Fort Hood

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Oklahoma City (1995-168 killed), Columbine High (1999-12 killed), Virginia Tech (2007-32 killed), and now Fort Hood (13 killed). What do these memorable places have in common? They are each sites where Americans killed Americans in a culture whose violence extends from here to places like Iraq and Afghanistan. They are symptoms of a deep problem…