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Op-Ed by Joe Russo I have never visited Virginia, even though I know their slogan is “Virginia is for Lovers.” I might convince my wife to take a vacation there with me now; I don’t know about the “Lover” part of it, but at least I’ll be in the company of “thinkers and doers.” Apparently,…
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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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Op-Ed by Joe Russo According to the Pew Research Center, the State of Virginia is expected to suffer a rather hard blow of foreclosure activity. One in 33 houses in Virginia will suffer foreclosure activity by 2010. Although only 23 percent of all the loans made were “sub-prime”, the foreclosure problem is expected to affect…
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Column by Mike Hodge Change. Hope. Hope for change. These are the buzzwords we have heard for the last couple years in politics. We need change in Richmond. We need change in Washington. Well, we got change in November 2006. Since then we have gotten the housing crisis, record-high gas prices, record-high oil prices, a…
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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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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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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Frank Lucente gets his majority Give the old codger credit. A lot had to work just right for him to do it, but he did it. Now comes the hard part. He proved himself adept at being in the minority. But how will he do running the show when…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Webb’s Post-9/11 G.I. Bill passed the House of Representatives on Thursday, moving the nation a giant step closer to doing the same thing for recent military veterans that we did for the heroes of World War II. “(Thursday’s) House vote places veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars one…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] One thing we can all agree on – we need to do something about our roads. Right? Right? “With the housing economy the way it is today, I don’t know that adding a new cost is the wisest thing to do,” said Del. Phil Hamilton, R-Newport News, echoing…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte In a letter written by Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Franklin said: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Taxes may be a certainty for every American, but high taxes shouldn’t be. As you know, lower taxes put more money in the hands of…
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