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The Top Story by Chris Graham More than 7,000 Virginia children were found to have been abused or neglected last year. Another 14,000 incidents of abuse and neglect never made it to the authorities for assessment or investigation. Not that you would know any of this from reading the papers or watching the evening news.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mary works – she’s not supposed to; in fact, her doctor has ordered her not to.
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Column by Chris Graham Any guess as to why an independent is on the ballot in the 24th Senate District – and why Democrats last week had two candidates from which they could choose a November nominee?
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Story by Chris Graham Arin Sime would love to be engaging in the sometimes-heated discussions going on among 24th Senate District Republican Party nomination candidates Emmett Hanger and Scott Sayre on taxes and spending.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham It’s almost an Olympiad away – but from the perspective of the people responsible for reducing point-source pollution into the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 is just around the corner.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., were a wakeup call for those involved in the emergency-services community in the Shenandoah Valley. “The big thing that came out of 9/11 was the thought that, hey, we’ve got to look at our policies and…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Waynesboro City Council member Frank Lucente feels that a May 1 News Virginian editorial that labeled him the “puppet master” pulling the strings of the May city elections and asserted that he had promised a political rival a seat on the governing body in two years if she backed…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham You see a Confederate-flag bumper sticker on a truck in a parking lot or on the highway, and already you have some ideas in your mind as to the identity of the person who put it there. “Nowadays, you’re not going to see a $30,000 SUV going down the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Tim Williams doesn’t like passing the buck to taxpayers any more than he has to – particularly when Richmond is awash in money from those same taxpayers. “The state has a surplus, and here they are passing this onto us. I don’t understand that. They made the promise, and…
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Column by Chris Graham Quentin Kidd calls it a “sleeper factor” – though the mini-revolts that we have been witnessing statewide over what have become effective tax increases that have resulted from increased local property-value reassessments this spring could reawaken from their brief slumber in time to play a key role in next week’s Republican…
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