
Crystal Graham: I can’t sing, I can’t dance
I watch a lot of things on TV that my husband does not approve of. I think it must be something in the female genes that we are drawn to programs very different than our male counterparts.

I watch a lot of things on TV that my husband does not approve of. I think it must be something in the female genes that we are drawn to programs very different than our male counterparts.

Story by Chris Graham “Two years ago, or a year ago,” Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine told a Waynesboro audience last month, “if you would’ve asked Larry Sabato or one of these pundits, tell us about the governor’s race, they would have said, Look, Tim Kaine is a great guy, he’s a hard worker, but…

The Top Story by Chris Graham The summer of 2004 was the best time in a long time to be a Democrat in Virginia. The polls had presidential candidate John Kerry within shouting distance of George Bush, for one thing. Kerry, sensing the possibility of an upset in the heart of what Republicans throatily consider…

The Top Story by Chris Graham When Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon, brought up his concerns with respect to the No Child Left Behind education-accountability initiative during the news conference in 2003 in which he announced his candidacy for re-election to the Virginia General Assembly, it didn’t take long for fellow Republicans to paint a…

The Top Story by Chris Graham The talk that President Bush might want to look somewhere other than Number One Observatory Circle for a running mate for this fall’s election is just that, talk. “The streets of Washington’s political district are filled with rumors and scenarios where Cheney disappears from the GOP ticket. Yet if…

Story by Steven Sisson Poet Robert Frost wrote, “I never dared be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.” But what about being a … radical conservative? That could be the best description for Libertarian Party presidential candidate Michael Badnarik out there. Badnarik, 50, is a baby boomer – nothing…

The Top Story by Chris Graham City-council elections in Staunton and Waynesboro are not strictly nonpartisan – but they are so nonetheless. It might not matter to most people one way or the other – after all, most people won’t be voting in today’s elections. For the one in three who will be, though, there…

Story by Chris Graham Hurricane Isabel could drop as much as 15 inches of rain on the Greater Augusta County area on Thursday. Double-digit rain totals are likely if the storm continues on its current track, Virginia state climatologist Patrick Michael told The Augusta Free Press on Monday.

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham You’re out flying around the nation’s capital on a pleasant, sunny Sunday afternoon, minding your own business. And then out of the blue (literally), an F-16 sidles up next to your Beech 35 – thinking you’re some sort of terrorist or something. Aha. Very good. Yes? No ….