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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should candidates for public office take money from PACs and lobbyists representing special-interest groups? Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has ruffled some feathers with his ban on campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul has done something of…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Considering what we’ve had to go through with Michael Vick over the course of the past year, I’m not all that fond of the phrase Don’t have a dog in this fight anymore, but when it comes to the ongoing mess involving the Augusta County GOP, I really don’t have…
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Op-Ed by Clyde Winter ClydeWinter.wordpress.com Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more “The GI Bill gives emphatic notice to the men and women in our armed forces that the American people do not intend to let them down.” – Franklin Delano Roosevelt, on signing the original G.I Bill for returning veterans The Iraq and Afghanistan…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] How could you vote against the new GI Bill that will provide expanded educational benefits to troops returning from Iraq and Afghanistan? It’s a rhetorical question that Fifth District Democratic Party nominee Tom Perriello is asking about Republican incumbent Virgil Goode’s vote against the bill.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Kai Degner is ready to throw his hat into the Harrisonburg City Council ring. Degner, the executive director of the Arts Council of the Valley, will announce his candidacy for city council tomorrow afternoon. The announcement will take place at 5:15 p.m. at Clementine Cafe in Downtown Harrisonburg, and will…
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] There has been some interesting discussion about how much outgoing Waynesboro city manager Doug Walker gets paid in the days since the announcement that Walker will be stepping down from his job effective June 30. The focus of the talking has been that $125,000 a year is…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] How would Jesus vote? Would he pull the lever for yes to marriage amendments? Support candidates who want us to fight unholy wars? Back those who use empty rhetoric to restrict access to health care? I wonder if those issues will come up at the kickoff event for the How…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia community-college students will pay a little more in the next academic year. The State Board for Community Colleges voted this week to raise tuition and mandatory fees by a total of $6 per credit hour – impacting students taking a full load of 15 credits per semester $180 for…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: John McCain drops John Hagee like a hot potato “I can understand why people are upset about this. I can understand why, that Americans when viewing these kinds of comments are angry and upset.” That was McCain talking a few weeks ago about the controversial pastor Jeremiah Wright, incidentally….
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Eastern Mennonite Seminary is experimenting with different ways of expanding the learning process. The spring semester, six students and one professor tested the limits of online and in-person education with a “hybrid” course called “The Jesus Movement in the Early Context.” The students were all service workers living in various…
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