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Video of Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier offering analysis on Friday night’s presidential debate. Length: 1:43 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtY–jcHWGs]

Video of Associated Press Washington bureau chief Ron Fournier offering analysis on Friday night’s presidential debate. Length: 1:43 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtY–jcHWGs]

Video from a Washington, D.C., press availability with Barack Obama on the Wall Street crisis. Length: 12:25 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIJk3OsIrgc]

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A funny thing happened on the way to John McCain riding in on his white horse to solve the Wall Street crisis – the horse was late, and by the time McCain got involved, they’d had the crisis solved without him. And then a funnier thing happened – when McCain…

Staff Report Barack Obama and Joe Biden will hold a “Change We Need” rally on Saturday in Fredericksburg at the University of Mary Washington. The appearance will be the first joint appearance in the Commonwealth for the Obama-Biden ticket. The event is free and open to the public, but RSVPs are encouraged. To RSVP, visit…

Video from “Late Show with David Letterman” from last night when John McCain was supposed to be a guest but canceled to rush back to Washington to solve the Wall Street crisis. Length: 9:11 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjkCrfylq-E]

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] And you thought I was just some party hack … Yes, that was me who was quoted on the Washington Post Virginia Politics Blog today about my complaints to the Barack Obama campaign about their policy regarding yard signs. “I think they might be missing the boat,” Chris Graham, chairman…

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Provocative headline, yes, and no, there’s not much more than conjecture behind it. But this is among the things being talked about in local politics circles. It came up most recently with me in a conversation with a local elected official yesterday when I mentioned that I was hearing that…

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson are urging swift action on the Bush administration’s proposed $700 billion Wall Street bailout. Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill are balking, and as the pressure is mounting on Congress to act, it is raising to a fever pitch on…

Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz With the presidential race on many peoples’ minds these days, one Eastern Mennonite Seminary alumna is always thinking about the intersection of politics and Christian faith. Rachelle Lyndaker Schlabach, a 2006 graduate, is director of Mennonite Central Committee U.S.’s Washington Office. “The work of MCC’s Washington Office largely grows out…
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