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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: President Bush lifts executive ban on offshore drilling No, I’m not making some sort of environmental statement here. More a political one. You mean all he had to do was sign a new executive order, and that’s it? Of course not. The law banning offshore drilling dates back to…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Voices in the blogosphere had been murmuring in the tatter of keyboards that the conservative bloc had endeavored to subvert open meetings law along with city regulations in reforming the Finance Committee a week ago with only Williams and Lucente as members,” The News Virginian…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Three bushmen show up at the U.S. consulate in Lagos, Nigeria, after having been recruited to come to America to help the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton build authentic mud huts for a 1700s-era West African compound that will help the museum tell the story of the colonial African slave…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] Finally, the new majority answers my criticism of the decision to close the bulk-refuse collection center. And go figure, it includes a slur aimed at the dreaded Wayne Theatre. “It all boils down to this. The money was there, but we made the wrong decisions,”…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Fourth of July is celebrated in Scottsville on the River. The town’s annual Rhythm on the River Fourth celebration is set for Friday from 6-9:30 p.m. Musical entertainment will be provided by bluesman Ron Johnson and bluegrass favorites Jackass Flats. The night will be capped off by a fireworks…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An AFP reader raised a good point in a comment today on our team coverage of yesterday’s city-council reorganization. “Bruce Allen’s comment in the News Virginian about Mr. Walker’s firing … ‘some issues were personnel issues,’ bothers some of us. … How would Mr. Allen…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] From the home office in Downtown Waynesboro … The Top 11 Things That We Could Have Done Better With The $126,000 That We Paid To Doug Walker Not To Be Our City Manager …
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] “Wait and see.” That sums things up rather nicely. I’ve been spending a good deal of time the past few days talking with city-council members, department heads and line employees in City Hall to try to gauge opinion about what life is going to be like when the new…
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Fear and Loathing column by Chris Graham [email protected] This politics stuff isn’t just fun and games. We can forget that sometimes. I was jolted back into that reality yesterday when I saw fire trucks from the Preston L. Yancey Fire Department and Augusta County Fire Department speed past my office/house on their way downtown. “This…
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Dull Ache column by W.R. Marshall adullache.today.com Look, I’m the first to admit I tend to play the Apocalypse card now and then, but you have to admit, the End of Days is always good for laugh. There’s Cheney as Satan – or a close personal advisor. There’s a crackerjack conflict going on in the…
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