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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: We get to keep our Starbucks! Starbucks has released a list of the coffee shops that it will be closing as part of its restructuring, and – phew! – our shops in Staunton and Waynesboro are safe. More strawberries and cream for me, and peppermint white chocolate mocha for…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] How’s this for a juxtaposition? Wayne Theatre Alliance chairman Bill Hausrath calls himself “an eternal optimist,” while I’m an preternaturally-pessimistic political realist. But while Hausrath is wondering aloud if the Wayne project can survive without already-promised city funding coming as expected, I think it can, or rather, that…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Let me write my 91st column on that stupid downtown stoplight, and hope that somebody actually pays attention this time. Alright, it’s not actually my 91st column, but I’m getting close – and I have to say that there’s no way I’m the only person…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine has some ideas for saving state taxpayer money in this day and age of $4-a-gallon gasoline. Kaine announced yesterday a telework initiative for 120 employees in his Cabinet and in the governor’s office and a directive to all state agencies to consider ways to improve and expand…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m trying to resist the temptation to wonder aloud if tattering on the freedom to ride a moped in Waynesboro sans chapeau is a better-to-do-with-our-time kind of thing or not. Because I didn’t realize until I read the editorial in today’s News Virginian that city…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Bob Goodlatte has a boatload of money Try $1.5 million cash on hand as of June 30, according to the Federal Election Commission. Which is, what, about 20 times the $80,000-plus that Democrat Sam Rasoul has at his disposal right now? You get the feeling that if Rasoul gets…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] Should a tangential relationship to a sitting city-council member disqualify a candidate for appointment to a high city post? That issue is being bandied about behind the scenes in City Hall with the candidacy of one of the 12 applicants for the open city-attorney position.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] It should come as no surprise that the city council is moving us on the fast track to reneging on the Wayne Theatre Alliance economic-development agreement. Unlike the issue involving the firing of Doug Walker, which the jihadists didn’t tell us about because they didn’t…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Boogie Kings, comedian Marsha Howard, singer-songwriter Duffy and his playing partner, Matt Thomas, and more are on the bill on “The River City Radio Hour” Friday night. The “Radio Hour” will also feature vocalist Claire Sax and the third installment of Bob Crawford’s serial suspense mystery, Night Hawk and…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro Writer’s Group meeting set for Saturday morning at Stone Soup Books and Cafe will feature a familiar face – and badge. Waynesboro police officer Mark Kearney will lead the monthly meeting at 10 a.m. at Stone Soup in Downtown Waynesboro. Kearny is the founder of the Book ‘Em…
