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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Everything is on the table, Gov. Tim Kaine told state legislators today as the two sides began to address a projected billion-dollar shortfall in the current biennial state budget. “The need to engage in a third major round of budget reductions will mean, by necessity, that all programs — including…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia’s unemployment rate is still solid relative to the national rate, which is good news. But there’s bad news in the fact that our rate has climbed a full percentage point in the past year, and more expected job losses are looming later this summer. Barack Obama’s chief economic advisor,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic nominee Tom Perriello is talking about economic revival in Southside and Central Virginia. Perriello launched his REVIVAL plan for the economies of the Fifth yesterday at an event in Martinsville, which has the highest unemployment rate in Virginia, at 10.5 percent in May, and that was before…
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Item by Jim Bishop The walls will soon come tumblin’ down. Oakwood residence hall at Eastern Mennonite University, beloved by many alumni as an enclave for male pranksters, located on the quad adjacent to Maplewood and Elmwood residences, will be demolished late August. A new 120-room residence hall will replace Oakwood with a projected budget…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Does Augusta County need an economic-development department? It amazes me that Augusta County government has been able to get along as long as it has without an economic-development department to build on what the county has at its economic disposal for the future. OK, so yeah, I…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] You can take the Hatfield out of the Hatfield-McCoy feudin’, but you can’t take the feudin’ out of the Hatfield. “It’s a disservice to those who have given their lives,” Reo Hatfield told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart for a story in today’s paper ostensibly…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The man who would be mayor slinked out of the city-council chambers quietly through a back door. He didn’t want to face the group of close to 50 people who had just given the man that he had asked three weeks ago to submit his…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: Have you been victim of racial, gender or sexual-orientation discrimination in the workplace? Stanley Smith is known to his friends as Bubba, and he has a lot of friends – white, black, Latino. He’s like a lot of us in that respect. He’s also a little-league baseball…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: How are gas prices affecting your daily life? Cars are our freedom. They’re how we get to work, go on vacation, make it to the parents’ house for Sunday dinner, travel to and from play practice and baseball and soccer games after school. Our freedom is…
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Photos by Chris Graham [email protected] The second annual Miss Vector Womanless Beauty Pageant was held Saturday night at Kate Collins Middle School. Nineteen contestants took part in the pageant, which raised money for the Waynesboro-based Vector Industries, a nonprofit that provides employment opportunities for area residents with mental and physical disabilities and others.
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