Schultz has eyes on 27th Senate seat
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Story by Chris Graham Republicans have had a tight grip on legislative seats in the Shenandoah Valley in recent years – but Karen Schultz isn’t focused on the political past.
Search Results for Virginia State University
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VDOT looking at deck-truss bridges
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Story by Chris Graham A dozen Virginia bridges with the same general type of design as the deck-truss bridge in Minnesota that collapsed last week are going to get a gander from state transportation inspectors – but there’s no reason for alarm.
Violence and our kids
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Ours is a violent culture – and we’re not talking about the mean streets of South Central Los Angeles or New York City or some other urban enclave. Violence is in your living room – not to mention your child’s CD player or iPod or Xbox or Playstation2. From…
The war on teen pregnancy
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The Top Story by Chris Graham If there was a magic bullet that could be used to solve the teen-pregnancy problem, it would have been used decades ago. But, alas, there is no magic bullet – or even a single accepted way to combat the problem. Does traditional sex education get the job done? How…
Gassed
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The Top Story by Chris Graham When gasoline was a dollar a gallon, it made sense to pack up the family and head for the hills to escape the higher real-estate prices of the city.
Councilman faces uphill battle in libel case
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro City Council member Frank Lucente feels that a May 1 News Virginian editorial that labeled him the “puppet master” pulling the strings of the May city elections and asserted that he had promised a political rival a seat on the governing body in two years if she backed…
Struggle to comprehend Confederate past continues
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
The end of the car tax as we know it – revisited
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams doesn’t like passing the buck to taxpayers any more than he has to – particularly when Richmond is awash in money from those same taxpayers. “The state has a surplus, and here they are passing this onto us. I don’t understand that. They made the promise, and…
Affordable housing the focus of Staunton leaders
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Staunton residents are worried about the apparent lack of affordable housing in the Queen City. Don’t think that the candidates for the three open seats on Staunton City Council haven’t noticed that.
Property Tax Fever
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Column by Chris Graham Quentin Kidd calls it a “sleeper factor” – though the mini-revolts that we have been witnessing statewide over what have become effective tax increases that have resulted from increased local property-value reassessments this spring could reawaken from their brief slumber in time to play a key role in next week’s Republican…
