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Democrats are fond of saying that working-class Southern white voters who vote Republican “vote against their interests” in so doing, before scratching their heads and grumbling about how good things could be if only. The disconnect to reality is obvious – unless you’re a Democrat
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The five-year effort by U.S. Sens. Jim Webb and Claire McCaskill to increase accountability and crack down on waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer dollars in contracting during overseas contingency operations has gained new bipartisan support
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Sen. Jim Webb, author of the landmark Post-9/11 G.I. Bill, today renewed his call for quick enactment of his bipartisan legislation to preserve those veterans’ education benefits from abuses by certain schools
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The United Way of Greater Augusta impact funding to local program and services for 2012-2013 will be over $575,000 in direct dollar funding, the organization announced on Wednesday
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International students at Bridgewater College who could benefit from English language immersion will be able to do so thanks to an agreement between Bridgewater and Eastern Mennonite University’s Intensive English Program (IEP)
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The Staunton Music Guild recently awarded Wilson Memorial High School graduate Jacob Dishman the 1st Ray Houser Scholarship. Dishman is the first member of what the Staunton Music Guild hopes will be a long list of “Ray Houser Scholars”
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The director of Virginia Cooperative Extension said that agency is steadily rebuilding its presence in county offices across Virginia after staffing cuts in recent years
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While visiting Central Virginia Community College in Lynchburg on Thursday, Gov. Bob McDonnell ceremonially signed nine bills that streamline or eliminate burdensome state mandates on local governments
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Togar Tarpeh had hardly started school when, in 1989, the civil war in Liberia reached the capital, Monrovia. His family fled the city before he’d finished second grade, and they didn’t know when they’d return
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The RMH Foundation has awarded four grants totaling more than $33,000 to community organizations and RMH departments
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