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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Those of us overreacting to Wes Clark Look, the guy was wounded in Vietnam himself, OK? Stop calling him unpatriotic. It was a stupid comment, sure. But his point should be well-taken.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Nearly a trillion dollars. That’s what Congress and the Bush administration have committed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past seven years with the passage this week of another supplemental wartime spending bill. It’s “wasteful spending,” said Sam Rasoul, the Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A recent Riverheads High School graduate has given the reading room at the Booker T. Washington Community Center in Staunton a new lease on life.
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Item by Jim Bishop The directors of the Shenandoah Valley Children’s Choir are doing more than leading local children in award-winning singing these days. They’re also directing and teaching choristers and music educators across the country.
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I don’t know that I disagree entirely with what Bob Goodlatte had to say about former White House press secretary Scott McClellan’s testimony to the House Judiciary Committee last week about his knowledge of the Bush administration’s role in myriad questionable activities. “I have to say that I don’t think…
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Op-Ed by Adam Sharp U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) decided last week to decline the $85 million available to him in taxpayer funds for the general election. I hope all candidates eventually do the same.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “The market is closed.” That’s the quick rendering from Gregg Doud, the chief economist at the Washington, D.C.,-based National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, regarding the access that U.S. beef producers currently have to the China market. Which is to say, none. This would seem to shed…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not just Republicans who are raising issue with the idea that Virginia needs to come up with more money to fix what Gov. Tim Kaine and other top Democrats have been saying for years is a transportation crisis in the Commonwealth.
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Op-Ed by Sanford D. Horn A quarter of a million dollars. Let’s look at that figure in numerals – $250,000. That is the salary, before benefits, the Alexandria School Board has awarded Dr. Morton Sherman to become the new schools superintendent – effective Aug. 15. Effective Aug. 15? Dr. Sherman will be on the job…
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Item by Jim Bishop Among the gifts offered to those attending the 16th annual Shenandoah Valley Bach Festival were visible enthusiasm among participating musicians as they re-created and interpreted selections by some of the world’s most beloved composers. Guest guitar artist Michael Partington stated: “I’m able to play what I want to play, and I…
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