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Creigh Deeds: Redistricting shenanigans

Published date: January 25, 2013 | 1:58 pm

Updated: July 30, 2025 | 12:18 pm

The only thing predictable about a “short” session is that the days will be full and pass by quickly. We are more than a third of the way through the 46 day session and had real fireworks this past week. On Monday, the nation celebrated Martin Luther King Day and the second inauguration of President Barack Obama. Nevertheless, since the Virginia Constitution calls for the General Assembly to be in session, we were hard at work considering bills and resolutions. All legislation has importance to someone, but overshadowing those bills was a tactic involving redistricting that was sprung on the Senate at the close of business on Monday afternoon.

McDonnell releases roads list

AFP

Published date: January 22, 2013 | 9:12 pm

Gov. Bob McDonnell’s comprehensive, long term transportation funding proposal, “Virginia’s Road to the Future,” would provide the Virginia Department of Transportation with approximately $1.28 billion in new state funding that could be used for 158 highway projects providing a significant investment in improving interstate pavement, secondary system bridges, mass-transit, unpaved roads and other high priority projects.

Historical Society talk focuses on emancipation

AFP

Published date: January 21, 2013 | 11:38 pm

Updated: February 6, 2013 | 10:43 am

The Augusta County Historical Society will continue its popular Stuart Series Talks with a special presentation on the Emancipation Proclamation by Dr. Holt Merchant, a professor of history at Washington & Lee University, on Thursday at 7 p.m.

AAA: Virginia hotels, restaurants earn high ratings

Chris Graham

Published date: January 21, 2013 | 9:59 am

Updated: May 7, 2025 | 11:56 am

AAA Mid-Atlantic has announced the 10 hotels and three restaurants in central and western Virginia that earned the Five or Four Diamond Rating during the past 12 months. The AAA/CAA Four and Five Diamond Ratings are the travel authority’s highest designations for hotels and restaurants.

Senate committee kills election reform

Chris Graham

Published date: January 19, 2013 | 9:36 am

Updated: May 13, 2025 | 4:13 pm

The Senate Privileges and Elections Committee, led by Chairman State Sen. Mark Obenshain (R-Harrisonburg), voted on Friday to defeat legislation offered by State Sen. Mark Herring (Loudoun & Fairfax) to improve voter access to the polls in Virginia.

Stories and Legends of Blue Ridge & Shenandoah Told at East Rock

AFP

Published date: January 16, 2013 | 8:22 pm

Updated: February 6, 2013 | 10:47 am

Everyone enjoys stories and legends, and for the 20 members, three volunteers and six guests in attendance at the at the East Rockingham Senior Center on January 16, Elkton historian and JMU Lifelong Learning Program instructor, Jim Lawson, offered more than 60 minutes of very interesting and entertaining discussion during his program entitled, “Legends and Stories of the Blue Ridge and Shenandoah.”

VDOT awards $2.4M project for new Route 60 bridge in Lexington

Chris Graham

Published date: January 16, 2013 | 11:37 am

Updated: May 6, 2025 | 7:19 pm

A contract valued at $2.4 million was awarded to Fairfield-Echols LLC of Fishersville for the construction of the East Nelson Street (Route 60) bridge in the City of Lexington. The contract was awarded by Virginia Department of Transportation Commissioner Greg Whirley on Jan. 8.

Chris Graham: $28 million?

AFP

Published date: January 16, 2013 | 11:29 am

Granted, Game 5 of the Division Series was tough, watching the bullpen that had been so good for so much of the 2012 season break down in the late innings as Washington’s World Series dreams floated into the ether. But … $28 million for two years for a closer whose fastball tops out at 92?

George Mason continues mastery of JMU, 68-57

Chris Graham

Published date: January 15, 2013 | 11:30 pm

A 13-2 run by the George Mason Patriots was too much for JMU to overcome as the Dukes fell 68-57 in a Colonial Athletic Association game at the Patriot Center in Fairfax, Va. on Tuesday night.

Victoria Bruce: Why the compete silence on the easiest way to bring in tax revenue?

AFP

Published date: January 15, 2013 | 11:29 am

Last January, when our documentary film, We’re Not Broke, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, we were elated. The film’s message about how multinational corporations are cheating the American people out of desperately needed tax revenue to the tune of $100 billion a year was sure to reach the masses.

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Creigh Deeds: Redistricting shenanigans

McDonnell releases roads list

Historical Society talk focuses on emancipation

AAA: Virginia hotels, restaurants earn high ratings

Senate committee kills election reform

Stories and Legends of Blue Ridge & Shenandoah Told at East Rock

VDOT awards $2.4M project for new Route 60 bridge in Lexington

Chris Graham: $28 million?

George Mason continues mastery of JMU, 68-57

Victoria Bruce: Why the compete silence on the easiest way to bring in tax revenue?

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