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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] A point guard and coach’s son. That’s Billy Baron, a 6-1 Rhode Island product who on Wednesday became the sixth recruit in Tony Bennett’s impressive first class at the University of Virginia.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Wes Siler noticed the offering in the course catalogue at the University of Virginia, and he was fine with there being a class called Modern Liberalism. What bothered him – where was Modern Conservatism?
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April to be Confederate History Month, but if you’ve read a newspaper or turned on the TV news anytime in the past few days, you knew that already. You also know that plenty of people are plenty mad that he did this, that plenty…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley Athletic Club will begin holding its monthly meetings at the Rocktown Grill at 2061 F Evelyn Byrd Ave. in Harrisonburg with its meeting for April being held on Wednesday, April 7.
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Written by Chris Graham [email protected] “Chris Graham is the choice.” I don’t remember the exact wording. I do remember reading the headline that said this or something pretty close out loud and thinking, This is it! “What?” My wife, Crystal, was incredulous. She could sense it, too. Skimming through the endorsement editorial in the…
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law a number of green energy bills passed by the General Assembly this session. A signing ceremony to mark the signings was held at Old Dominion University in Norfolk today. Among the measures receiving the governor’s signature was his legislation to provide a $500…
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Column by Del. Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Last week I took the extraordinary step of making a motion on the floor of the House of Delegates that a bill be discharged from a committee. The rules provide for such a motion, but it is seldom made and almost never approved. Had my motion been approved,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell today issued an executive directive clarifying his administration’s position on employment discrimination that makes it clear that discrimination “based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation or parental status” will not be tolerated. “Discrimination based on factors such as one’s sexual orientation or parental status violates…
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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro was once the envy of Western Virginia for its manufacturing economy. As recently as 1990, almost half of the city’s workforce was employed in manufacturing, whose rate of pay has traditionally been at least 40 percent and some years approaching 50 percent higher than the median income…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] What a day for Tony Bennett on Saturday. First he sent Sylven Landesberg packing for the NBA or Europe or wherever his next destination might be by suspending the star second-year forward for the remainder of what promises to be a short rest of the season citing academic issues….
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