Childhood obesity focus of BRCC workshop
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A workshop on childhood obesity has been set for Wednesday, June 17, from 8 a.m. to noon at Blue Ridge Community College in Weyers Cave.
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Whack-a-T-Mac
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No new polls on the Democratic Party gubernatorial race, but I’m guessing Terry McAuliffe is still comfortably ahead of fellow Dems Creigh Deeds and Brian Moran, judging by the attack ads being thown at McAuliffe by the Deeds and Moran campaigns.
In the News
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– Local News: Waynesboro Police joining in Click It or Ticket effort – Local News: Ayers addresses BC grads
David Cox | Getting and giving
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Is this a great country or what? In what other country can you lead a company into the pits, and still make a fortune? Last Saturday’s Richmond Times-Dispatch headlined the story of executives of a bankrupted local financial corporation asking for nearly $30 million in severance pay.
David Reynolds | Why Washington fails us
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Before we go any any further let us make it clear that our title is not directed solely at our current president. Or his administration. Or the Democrats who control Congress. Past presidents, administrations and Congresses – of both parties – have been guilty of the same crime. And what is this crime? Guilty of…
The Civil War by podcast
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Fought in Virginia’s beautiful Shenandoah Valley, the May 15, 1864, Battle of New Market won lasting fame for 257 Virginia Military Institute cadets, who helped a pick-up group of Confederates turn back a Union offensive.
The politics of payday lending
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The Creigh Deeds campaign says Terry McAuliffe has taken aim at “Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and Democratic leaders in the General Assembly” on payday lending “(i)nstead of targeting Republicans who have stood in the way of payday lending reform.” As with most political swipes, this one is, well, partly true.
Kaine announces formation of Poverty Reduction Taskforce
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced the creation of Virginia’s Poverty Reduction Taskforce, a collection of public and private-sector partners who will make policy recommendations to combat poverty in the Commonwealth.
Erik Curren gets political, personal
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Erik Curren got the 20th House District Democratic Party nomination last month, but it’s not necessarily the case that the nomination was the biggest news in Curren’s life. Find out what could eclipse a party nomination to run for the General Assembly, and more on what Curren thinks on the unemployment insurance-stimulus vote in Richmond…
Class warfare as a matter of choice
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I have to admit to being somewhat of two minds on the school-choice issue that is championed by the likes of 20th District Del. Chris Saxman, whose sales pitch is a strong one at first glance. Saxman’s most recent legislative proposal would have capped tuition tax credits available to parents to go toward a child’s…
