Bushmen denied visas, putting Frontier Museum project on different track

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Three bushmen show up at the U.S. consulate in Lagos, Nigeria, after having been recruited to come to America to help the Frontier Culture Museum in Staunton build authentic mud huts for a 1700s-era West African compound that will help the museum tell the story of the colonial African slave…

Citizen Koehn

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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t realize it until after we talked this morning, but I’ve probably already met – at the least bumped in to – the new Voice of the Cavaliers, Dave Koehn. Koehn was in Charlottesville for UVa.’s basketball season opener with Vermont, a 90-72 win…

Winners and Losers: June 24, 2008

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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Waynesboro Mayor Tom Reynolds goes out on a high note Nice tribute from Waynesboro City Council members to the outgoing mayor, Tom Reynolds, last night. Big ups to Tim Williams for sharing a personal story that broke through the tensions that we’ve been feeling here in the ‘Boro in…

How much longer must we suffer this idiocracy?

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Most of us agree that Virginia has itself a roads problem. You don’t have to sit in traffic for too long in Northern Virginia or Hampton Roads or Richmond or deal with congestion on U.S. 29 in Charlottesville or Interstate 81 anywhere in Western Virginia to recognize that much. The…

A View from the Right: Change of a different order

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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…

Protecting consumers: A vital part of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

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Column by Todd Haymore The official name of the agency I lead is the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, also called VDACS. Agriculture is listed first in our name, but the consumer services section is by no means an afterthought. At VDACS, we take our obligation to consumers very seriously.