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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I know that this gets said often and in different ways, but given what I’m dealing with in the wake of my father’s passing this week, I think it bears repeating. Get your affairs in order just in case something unexpected happens – if only for the…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s really not that important – whatever it was. Pick up the phone. Stop by and visit. It won’t be easy. I’m not saying that it will be. But what happens if, say, you haven’t spoken to your, oh, I don’t know, your dad, in two years,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The subject isn’t evolution, and the barristers aren’t William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow. But the upcoming trial of a Staunton adult-video store owner on obscenity charges has some of that Scopes Monkey Trial flavor to it. Doesn’t it? I mean, on the one side, you have the fundamentalists who…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When you’re a news reporter – print, radio, TV – it comes with the job that sometimes you have to rush to the scene of a car accident or fire or some other such catastrophe to tell folks what is going on. And it doesn’t make it any easier that…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Virginia Tech sports The men’s basketball team qualifies for the NCAA Tournament. Men’s soccer goes to the Final Four. The football team ends the part of the season that matters ranked #3 in the BCS. The first two are probably the most important. Tech is not…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] A funny thing happened on the way to Kristi Toliver’s homecoming victory – and I’m not talking about the two ridiculously petty fouls that she picked up in the first two minutes that planted her on the bench beside Maryland coach Brenda Frese for almost the entirety of the first…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Frank Lucente and Tim Williams join bond parade I’m calling them winners here not related to the politics of the issues involving bonds for a new West End fire station and improvements to the city library and the city stormwater system, because frankly my view on…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Waynesboro taxpayers won’t have to foot the bill for a lawsuit or a second referendum to resolve a legal snafu involving a recent popular vote affirming three capital-improvements projects. “I really think we’re making a mistake, but I always thought if I ever got in this dilemma, I would go…
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Story by Lawrence Smith The West Virginia Record Looking more like what may be submitted for a case in circuit or the Supreme Court, the five residents with a pending case in Monongalia Magistrate Court against an alleged Virginia private investigator hope the 23 exhibits they recently submitted will convince the magistrate to keep the…
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Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…
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