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Column by David Reynolds … then I must have breakfast in Buena Vista. But where? Up the hill at the high school or down in town at the American Legion Hall. With the Dems or with the Republicans? My usual choice is to breakfast downtown and hear what the elephants have to say. But as…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Gilmore standing at the podium in Glen Maury Park in Buena Vista at the foot of the Blue Ridge pulled a piece of paper from his pocket. A burly, hirsute man wearing a form-fitting Gilmore T-shirt handed the news reporter standing next to me a similarly-sized paper…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] She has executive experience, but let’s put Sarah Palin’s Alaska in perspective. It has a population of 670,000 and a state budget of $6.6 billion. Which, essentially, makes it Fairfax County (population 1 million, operating budget of $3.3 billion), only colder. So maybe we can dispense with the…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] TELL US MORE ABOUT YOU, JIMMY: More trash from Gilmore Got another note from the Jim Gilmore campaign with more trash on how Mark Warner is a bad guy. Today it’s something he said to the Virginia AFL-CIO about his support of legislation that would put Virginia’s right-to-work status in…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] When the editorial page at The News Virginian is compelled to complain about the new conservative city council, then you know that something worthy of a closer look is taking place. “(W)hat Waynesboro needs is a quickening of the pulse,” the NV opined today, and…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Sometimes watching a lousy movie can lead you down an interesting primrose path. Like the other day, I was in the mood for a musical, and noticed one I had never seen was playing on cable. I TiVoed it, and later sat down to watch what turned…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] THOM. JEFF. IS ROLLING OVER IN HIS GRAVE (AGAIN): UVa. athletics bans signs at Scott, JPJ I like one post on TheSabre.com regarding this news: “Somebody’s expecting us to have a pretty bad year, I guess.” Um, yeah. So fans can’t bring signs because they might offend somebody by saying,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Application are being taken for special lottery deer hunts in Grayson Highlands State Park, Kiptopeke State Park, Lake Anna State Park and Pocahontas State Park, the the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation announced this week.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You listen to Republicans, and you’d think that the only thing we need to do to address our current fuel and energy crisis is drill, drill, drill and drill some more – even if the Department of Energy, the Bush administration’s Department of Energy, that is, has done…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] “Everywhere I go I see vision. I’m sick of vision, really. I’m sick of the word.” These are the words of the guy who thinks he’s running the show. Thank God he’s not. Seriously, you can’t make this kind of thing up. My jaw dropped…
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