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Column by Steven Sisson Our presidential campaign has sunk lower than the Wall Street stock index. Down, down, down … Republican operatives have historically gone negative in losing campaigns to drive down voter participation and denigrate their Democratic opposition. Guess what? Dinosaur-like GOP president nominee John McCain is losing to a first-term senator. The Blue…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] The big question after the May elections for Waynesboro City Council – one of the big questions, anyway – had to do with the future of the Wayne Theatre Alliance. I was among those who assumed that the Alliance and its planned $7 million renovation of the Wayne Theatre would…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Dinah Gottschalk is a volunteer in the Waynesboro Democratic Committee. She’s a committed Democrat, a lifelong Democrat, and she’s been working hard this campaign season at the local Waynesboro Dems election headquarters in Willow Oak Plaza with me and dozens of other Waynesboro and Augusta County Democrats. She was, to…
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Staff Report There are two Sixth District congressional candidate debates on the schedule this week. Republican incumbent Bob Goodlatte, Democratic Party nominee Sam Rasoul and independent Janice Lee Allen will appear at a candidates forum sponsored by the Roanoke County PTA tonight at 7 p.m. The forum will be held at William Byrd High School…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The McCain-Palin campaign is trying to turn the page on the economics discussion that a top strategist suggested to the New York Daily News over the weekend will spell disaster “if we keep talking about” it by highlighting the tenuous ties of Barack Obama to a 1960s political radical. The…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Seth Lovell and his twin brother, Eli, thought they had a creative way to pay for college. They signed up for the Virginia National Guard as high-school seniors, the idea being that the tuition assistance would take a load off their mother, who had just been diagnosed with cancer. A…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the interim tag off his title now. Mike Hamp was appointed by Waynesboro City Council to serve as city manager, filling the post left open by the resignation of Doug Walker. Hamp had been serving as the interim city manager since Walker stepped down effective June 30….
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Video from a town-hall featuring Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius in Williamsburg on Tuesday. Length: 2:12 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTkWfjVrIms]
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I wrote earlier – and facetiously – about Jim Gilmore’s good timing regarding his visit to Waynesboro to talk with the editorial staff at The News Virginian on Monday hours before Waynesboro City Council voted 3-0 to pass the Gilmore no car tax buck on to city taxpayers. And now…
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Staff Report Staunton city government has filed a motion to ask the Staunton Circuit Court to reconsider the order of a judge now recused from a legal dispute involving the Board of Zoning Appeals to appoint an attorney to represent the board at city expense. The filing argues that the city had already tendered legal…
