Danger zone

Chris Graham

Looks like Frank Lucente has cornered himself back into being the minority again. “If we don’t get ourselves under control with spending, we are going to pay our price, and I am saddened that we are going to raise your taxes,” the singularly focused vice mayor said after Tuesday’s 3-2 City Council vote to maintain…

President Obama’s remarks on national security, Gitmo

National Archives, Washington, D.C., 10:28 a.m., Thursday, May 21, 2009: Good morning, everybody. Please be seated. Thank you all for being here. Let me just acknowledge the presence of some of my outstanding Cabinet members and advisors. We’ve got our Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. We have our CIA Director Leon Panetta. We have our…

Battlefields Foundation announces grants

From new interpretive exhibits to wayside signage, trails, and brochures, the Valley’s Civil War story will become increasingly available to the general public as a result of this year’s round of grants awarded by the Shenandoah Valley Battlefields Foundation’s Implementation Grants Program. Grants to support strong management projects at other sites will ensure that the…

The two-man alliance

Chris Graham

Two Waynesboro men calling themselves the Waynesboro Taxpayers Alliance sent e-mails to city residents today urging them to take a stand on the “misappropriation” of taxpayer funds by city government. A closer examination of the alleged transgression in the “misappropriation” area, not surprisingly, shows the issue at hand to be nothing more than partisan politics.

More questions on taxes

Chris Graham

It might help us as we try to make sense of the whole Tax Increase in Waynesboro That Wasn’t, At Least for Frank Lucente, to look at how it could be that aggregate assessed property values could be up 5 percent over the past two years even as people like Lucente are seeing their property…

Not paying more taxes, and still complaining about it

Contributors

“This is definitely no time,” said Stewart Hall of 891 Kent Road at Monday’s public hearing on the city tax rate, “to tighten the financial noose with further increases in taxes and fees.” Hall must have been speaking metaphorically, because his taxes and fees will be heading in opposite direction of an increase. According to…

Team Coverage | The Waynesboro Circulator

Chris Graham

The Waynesboro Circulator debuted Monday, bringing with it a new era of public transit to the River City. AFP editor Chris Graham met with city officials and representatives of Virginia Regional Transit to learn more about the new bus service. Watch his video report and read more about the Circulator in a written report.