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The Top Story by Chris Graham A group of former University of Virginia football teammates of U.S. Sen. George Allen alleges that the former quarterback regularly used the n-word to refer to African-Americans. A second group of the Republican’s former teammates has stepped up to say that this is not true. Meanwhile, the state’s…
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Story by Chris Graham Followers of women’s basketball know the significance of the numbers IX and 10. “IX” refers to Title IX, the landmark federal law that in 1972 mandated that schools, colleges and universities provide equal funding to men’s and women’s sports. “10,” of course, relates to the 10th season of the Women’s National…
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Story by Chris Graham Michael McCann, like the rest of us, assumed that the talk about how NBA players who had entered the league straight out of high school were ruining the professional game was at least somewhat on target. So when the law professor began to notice that his research into the impact of…
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Story by Chris Graham It’s spring, which means it’s probably time for Congress to threaten to cut funding for public broadcasting. A move by a congressional subcommittee to slash funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting that was reversed last week by the House Appropriations Committee had people again discussing the merits of taxpayer funding…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “You’re a card-carrying member of the ACLU,” the missive began. Honest and for true. The sentence was so matter of fact that I actually checked my wallet. You know – for my card. I figured it had to be in there. When I didn’t find it immediately, I…
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Story by Chris Graham Barry Bonds is black. Babe Ruth was white. Now that we have that established, we can tune into the national discussion that has been ongoing for some time now regarding Bonds’ pursuit of the Bambino’s spot on the all-time home-run list. And you had thought it was all about the two…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The focus on faith and values issues in politics is so much on the religious right and what it does to inject itself into debates on the topics of the day that one can almost fail to recognize that the religious left gets practically nothing in this respect…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham James Webb has some explaining to do to Democratic Party voters in Virginia this spring. But if he can wade through that minefield like he did through a long military career that included a tour of duty in Vietnam and a stint as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of the…
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine and Jerry Kilgore are still feeling their way around the abortion-rights issue. They both might be well advised to find a path and stick to it – because the pending political battle involving John Roberts’ nomination to the United States Supreme Court promises to keep the issue in the…
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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…
