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Tim Kaine’s budget balancing act is earning the Virginia governor critics across the Commonwealth. “While the decisions are tough and certainly not anything that the governor or anybody else would have wished for, the ultimate impact is going to be on the various localities. And the poorest school divisions are going to be among the…
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Staunton leaders are moving forward with plans to redevelop the Western State Hospital property at the valuable I-81/I-64 interchange on Richmond Road at the eastern edge of town. The catch – it could cost taxpayers $20 million to get the plans going. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting. Length: 3:50.
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Election reforms were on the mind of Attorney General Bob McDonnell today. Democratic critics of the presumptive ’09 Republican gubernatorial nominee for their part are accusing McDonnell of being a Johnny-come-lately to the election-reform game.
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“Familiar Strangers” is set to debut in Court Square Theater in Downtown Harrisonburg this weekend. Which meant the movie had to get to Court Square Theater. And that somebody had to get it there. “We’re on the road. We’re nowhere near the end of the road,” producer Barry Sisson said on the phone from a…
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You want to wear a campaign T-shirt, button or sticker into the polling place? The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, The Rutherford Institute and the ACLU of Virginia are with you. “Election Day should be a time for celebrating the personal freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. On that of all days,…
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Jerry Ratcliffe doesn’t think you have a right to say your piece. What you look at as being an American type that’s used to being able to share an opinion that might run counter to what he’s thinking at the time, he looks at as “negativity.” Funny thing, this “negativity,” which is so bad that…
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Top-ranked James Madison will host Montana in a I-AA playoff semifinal at Bridgeforth Stadium in Harrisonburg Friday night at 8 p.m. The game will be broadcast nationally on ESPN2. Tickets for the game are available online at www.jmusports.com, by calling 540.568.DUKE or at the Convocation Center ticket office weekdays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m….
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You had the feeling that it was just too much time to give Rodney Landers and top-ranked James Madison. Landers capped an 11-play, 54-yard fourth-quarter drive with a 1-yard run with 1:38 to go, and Brandon Randolph sealed the deal with a last-minute interception to give JMU a 31-27 win over Villanova in the quarterfinal round…
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It’s the economy, sports fans. Richmond International Raceway is lowering ticket prices for the May 2 Crown Royal Presents The Your Name Here 400, with tickets starting at $60 for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
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Notre Dame is about to begin its third coaching search in eight years after going only 54-42 and enduring three losing seasons in that span from Bob Davie to Ty Willingham to the now-embattled Charlie Weis. And Auburn is thinking about replacing Tommy Tuberville, who has gone 71-30 the past eight and stumbled only this…
