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Friday, Aug. 28 – State News: Civil liberties group says Residency Task Force proposal contains some advances, but also significant setbacks for registration by students and others – Local News: Seniors advised to get flu shots Thursday, Aug. 27 – Local News: Progress Augusta meeting set for next week Wednesday, Aug. 26 – State News:…
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You’re Frank Lucente, and you’re having a bad day. Maybe you’re losing an argument on live TV. You know you’re not making any sense, but that TV has been your friend. You’ve fake-cried into it enough the past couple of years that you should get nominated for an Emmy. You can’t risk having it turned…
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After taking a few days off to get things back in order, The Agenda is back with a vengeance. Well, OK, vengeance is a strong word. Though it sounds good in the movies to say that you’re back with a vengeance. Good news – we have some activity to report.
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Mental Health America Augusta is accepting nominations for the J. Lewis Gibbs Distinguished Service Award, the highest award given by the MHA-A.
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Ben Hopewell isn’t even listed on the JMU roster, but the “kid from Waynesboro” has the attention of Dukes’ coach Mickey Matthews as Hopewell has landed in a battle for the starting placekicking job as a true freshman. “He’s really putting some pressure on Dixon. We like the guy. He’s really got a chance,” Matthews…
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You tell a tea-partier that a key element of health-care reform is reducing overhead costs, and they counter that the overhead costs of private insurers include spending money to investigate allegations of fraud and abuse of the system and collecting on delinquent accounts and that sort of thing. I mention this to Greg Marrow, the…
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“Which one of your candidates is the one that fired his campaign manager?” I happened to be standing at the Staunton-Augusta Democratic Party booth at the Augusta County Fair last week when that question was directed at a volunteer. The reference was to a report from University of Virginia politics professor Larry Sabato from earlier…
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Friday, Aug. 21 – Local News: More Harrisonburg street closings Thursday, Aug. 20 – Local News: Harrisonburg street work delays – Local News: Harrisonburg-Rockingham chamber CEO steps down – Elections ’09: Shannon gets business-group endorsements Wednesday, Aug. 18 – Local News: Waynesboro City Council work session agenda Tuesday, Aug. 18 – State News: Health department…
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Waynesboro Police Chief Doug Davis was elected first vice president of the Virginia Association of Chiefs of Police at the VACP’s Annual Conference in Newport News on Tuesday, Aug. 11.
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Pat Nicosia has decided to forego her run for the Waynesboro city treasurer constitutional office in the Nov. 3 general election, but embattled Treasurer Sandee Dixon will have a challenger. Stephanie Beverage is back in the running for the post after falling short in her 2005 campaign. Beverage is the daughter of former treasurer Nancy…
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