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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…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The presumed number-one quarterback, Peter Lalich, is busted for underage possession of alcohol. Then one of the incoming starters on the offensive line, Will Barker, is among two UVa. players picked up for stealing beer from a nightclub on The Corner. And that was just last week’s news….
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Greater Augusta pediatrician Bob Gunther has been selected to participate in the 2008-2009 class of the Medical Society of Virginia Foundation’s Claude Moore Physician Leadership Institute.
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Tim Kaine is vice president, and Scott Sayre is your 24th District state senator. Think I’m reaching there? Let me take you where I am with this far-reaching scenario that’s been running through my head the past couple of days. Thinking things through, with Kaine as VP, Bill Bolling becomes…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The talk about Tim Kaine being on Barack Obama’s VP short list is no accident. Just look at the timing. That’s what has Christopher Newport University political-science professor Quentin Kidd thinking there’s more to the firestorm of coverage on this short-list news than maybe meets the eye. “There are two…
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Item by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University is among 25 schools in the Old Dominion taking part in Virginia Private College Week, July 28-Aug. 2, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia. Rising juniors and seniors in high school – and their families – may choose to visit just one or two colleges…
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