McDonnell signs green energy legislation

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into law a number of green energy bills passed by the General Assembly this session. A signing ceremony to mark the signings was held at Old Dominion University in Norfolk today. Among the measures receiving the governor’s signature was his legislation to provide a $500…

Replacement Census questionnaire mailed out

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   Beginning today through April 10, many Virginia households will receive a replacement 2010 Census questionnaire designed to increase census mail participation, get a better count for the state, and save taxpayers the higher cost of sending out census takers to collect information.

Sarah van Gelder: Post-racial America

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Column by Sarah van Gelder Submit guest columns: [email protected]   If anyone thought the inauguration of Barack Obama as president heralded the end of racism in America, they should look no further than the tea party rallies held last weekend. The racial slogans and the mocking signs show how far we still have to go….

No pressure: We’ve only been waiting 19 months

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]   Nineteen months. That’s a long time at the height of the deepest economic downturn since the Great Depression to be doing economic development on the fly. Waynesboro finally took a step in the direction of again becoming a player in the development arena with the announcement last week that…

Chris Graham: The rest of the story

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]   Congratulations are in order to Phil and Ellen Winter, whose persistence in their search for information about the workings of the city treasurer office in Waynesboro led to their collection of dozens of pages of e-mails, memos and audit reports, an investigative report in The New Dominion Magazine, more…

Local beef in local schools: A win-win

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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected]    It would seem to stand to reason that the breadbasket of Virginia could probably provide at least something in the way of homegrown food for schoolchildren. And then you think about it for a second, and it occurs to you that, you know, maybe it makes sense that…

Stop the Presses: Behind the scenes

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Column by Chris Graham [email protected]   Random thoughts on a beautiful Tuesday morning in the Valley, when I’d rather be outside taking an extra-long walk with the dog in the Tree Streets, winding down to Ridgeview Park before trekking back to the home office …    Not ‘free’ anymore We’ve made it past the 50-subscriber…

Building a new industrial sector in Waynesboro

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Special Report by Chris Graham [email protected]   Waynesboro was once the envy of Western Virginia for its manufacturing economy. As recently as 1990, almost half of the city’s workforce was employed in manufacturing, whose rate of pay has traditionally been at least 40 percent and some years approaching 50 percent higher than the median income…