Staunton Scout earns Gold Award
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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.
Search Results for Washington
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EMU educators spreading love of music
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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.
‘What Happened,’ Congressman?
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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…
In defense of private campaign financing
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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.
Where’s the beef?
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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…
Green transportation fix
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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.
That giant sucking sound
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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…
Ah, Bach!
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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…
More jobs, money to China – hurray!
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Two million jobs lost in the past decade. A quarter of a trillion dollar trade deficit just last year. And now we in Waynesboro are supposed to be jumping up and down happy about how Reo Hatfield wants to help China take more of our…
Money see, money do
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] At first glance, it doesn’t make sense to me that Barack Obama could stand to gain any traction at all with voters with his stance on not accepting campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. But as my friend Steve Farnsworth points out, correctly, Obama could stand to lose some support…
