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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] “We have a strong set of standards and values on our team that reflect those of the University, and we do not compromise those values to win football games.” A pretty strong statement from a coach who spent the better part of a week castigating…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Peter Lalich won’t be making the trip with his UVa. football teammates to Connecticut this weekend. “We stand by Peter and in talking with him have made a decision which is best in the short term for him, the team, and our University. We have a strong set of standards…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] They are the ones who are the most affected by cancer and what it can do. They know how important it is to try to get ahead of cancer to beat it before it can do its damage. And they are starting to see the proverbial light at the end…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Of course I wanted to hear about the Notre Dame game and the Penn State game a week later that turned things around for UVa. in that 1989 season. And the Clemson game that we could have won if Shawn Moore hadn’t gotten hurt in…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Democrats have been doing well in Virginia in recent years, and it’s no secret why. They’ve been balancing budgets and building the economy. And while national Democrats are using a “more of the same” theme to link GOP presidential nominee John McCain to the failed presidency of George…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Since my time as your governor,” Jim Gilmore writes in a fundraising letter that went out last week, “I have routinely been vilified by the biased liberal media, by the state Democratic Party and even by the liberal tax-and-spend members of my own party. Why? Because I promised…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Creigh Deeds remembered being asked to save the date on his schedule. “David Bottenfield said we needed to mark off this date, the 16th of August, for Paint the Valley Blue, that we were going to have a little picnic at the Frontier Culture Museum,” Deeds said at last night’s…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I call it The Wilder Effect. Doug Wilder was up nine points in the pre-election polls in his 1989 gubernatorial race with Marshall Coleman in his bid to become the nation’s first elected African-American governor, but in the poll that counted on Election Day he won by less than half…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] NBC News political director Chuck Todd broke it down for us last night on “Countdown with Keith Olbermann.” Assigning leaners in the Electoral College to the candidates that it appears that they will support, the 2008 presidential race comes down to four states – Colorado, New Mexico, Ohio and…
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Op-Ed by Joe Roman Earlier this year, Virginia officials endorsed a proposal to establish more than a million oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Oysters in the Chesapeake. That’s as natural as maple syrup in Vermont, crawfish in Louisiana, salmon in the Pacific Northwest. Except in this case, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission isn’t looking to restore…
