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The Top Story by Chris Graham A George Fitch for governor campaign wouldn’t necessarily surprise Republican Party insiders who have been talking for months about the Warrenton mayor’s interest in mounting a challenge to Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. But a Fitch candidacy might shake up the 2005 gubernatorial race nonetheless.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Jerry Kilgore was getting ready to talk hard politics. Which makes sense, given the stakes. There’s a state to be run, after all, not to mention a gubernatorial election – Kilgore, the attorney general in Virginia, is the frontrunner for the Republican Party nomination to run for governor…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham As House and Senate conferees struggle to work out the details of the state’s 2004-2006 budget, legislators outside of the spending maelstrom are focusing at least some of their attention on the revenue compromise that seemed to signal the end of the four-month-long budget impasse last week. One item…
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Story by Chris Graham Staunton’s all at-large election system should make for an interesting time on Tuesday. Six candidates – incumbent council members Dickie Bell, Dave Metz, Dick Robinson and Rita Wilson and challengers Doug Manning and James Welsh – are running for the four seats open on the seven-member public body.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham DuBose Egleston makes no secret of the fact that he is running for the at-large seat on Waynesboro City Council. He sent out a brochure to city voters on Friday touting his candidacy. And he has signs up all over the city that do the same. He even has…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham City-council elections in Staunton and Waynesboro are not strictly nonpartisan – but they are so nonetheless. It might not matter to most people one way or the other – after all, most people won’t be voting in today’s elections. For the one in three who will be, though, there…
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Column by Emmett Hanger Wait a minute! We are talking about reforming Virginia’s antiquated tax system, and I mean really, actually debating the pros and cons of revising Virginia’s tax structure. For years, the need has been there, but it was more convenient to sweep things under the carpet rather than talk about it. Now it’s…
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Column by Chris Graham For Emmett Hanger, being conversant in agricultural issues isn’t an election-year strategy. It’s a way of life. “I think he’s more effective because he understands the realities that we face out here every day,” said Gerald Garber, a Weyers Cave farmer who remembers Hanger, a Mount Solon Republican, from their days…
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Compiled by Chris Graham Tim Spears was surveying the damage wrought by the South River on his downtown-Waynesboro music store Friday afternoon. “It could’ve been a lot worse,” said Spears, owner of Tim Spears’ Music City – which is located just a city block away from the South River. Spears estimated the damage to his…
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Story by Chris Graham The rain greeted him at every stop on his whistlestop tour, but Steve Sisson was unfazed. The Elkton resident and former chairman of the Rockingham County Democratic Committee was touring the 24th Senate District on Saturday to announce his candidacy for the seat currently held by Sen. Emmett Hanger, R-Mount Solon….
