State of the Union: A Virginia perspective

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  Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything you wanted to know about the State of the Union, but were afraid to ask. We have the full texts and videos of President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address and Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Republican response. We also have reactions from Sens. Jim Webb and Mark Warner, congressmen…

Central Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley: The Perfect Place to Be

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Column by Stan Horst Many of us dream of finding the perfect place to live, Stan Horst found that perfect place when he moved to Central Virginia 20 years ago where he runs Cabin Creekwood, a vacation rental business near Waynesboro with his wife Debbie. Stan say he will never grow tired of the variety…

Virginia: Not the day the McCain-Paliners were hoping for

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Twenty thousand people, give or take, showed up to hear Sarah Palin at the Richmond International Raceway today. Good news. She yelled at some of them who were trying to tell her to speak “Louder! Louder!” because they couldn’t hear her and called them protestors while making a snarky remark…

West Virginia residents submit nearly two dozen documents in case against Valley P.I.

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Story by Lawrence Smith The West Virginia Record Looking more like what may be submitted for a case in circuit or the Supreme Court, the five residents with a pending case in Monongalia Magistrate Court against an alleged Virginia private investigator hope the 23 exhibits they recently submitted will convince the magistrate to keep the…

Beached wail

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I don’t know why I ever left. “I’m not leaving. Ever. I mean it,” I said to no one in particular, sipping a strawberry daiquiri on the beach. It was … a revelation. “I could do this forever, literally,” I said, again to no one in particular. In…

A day at the beach

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham   “When can we go back in the river?” my niece Hannah asked me. Or maybe it was her twin sister, Rachel. It was one of them. Anyway, we weren’t anywhere near a river at the time the question was posed. Instead, we were at the beach –…