Cox makes Dem battle a two-way
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Column by Chris Graham Does David Cox have what it takes to win in November?
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The cost of clean water
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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.
Is the Valley safer?
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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…
Operation MUNIS sees progress
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The talk of the 2005 election cycle in Staunton wasn’t focused on the heated gubernatorial race pitting Tim Kaine against Jerry Kilgore at the top of the ticket or any of the other state races. It was instead on the delays in the installation of a new financial-management software…
The Queen, Wrong Way and Me
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham OK, so I went to Richmond yesterday to be able to report on the visit of Queen Elizabeth II to the great Commonwealth – which put me in a not-exactly-exclusive class, all things considered. I say that because we were informed at the event that there were more…
Warner rallies Dems in Staunton
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Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner has been down this road before – lending his name and expending his political capital to aid political protege Tim Kaine’s run at the governor’s job last fall. The businessman-turned-Virginia political favorite son knows that there is risk involved to engaging in such efforts. “If you feel like you…
Webb, Warner draw Dems in Valley rally
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Story by Chris Graham The big news in Harrisonburg today wasn’t that former presidential hopeful Mark Warner was in town with Senate nominee Jim Webb. It was that an event organized by Valley Democrats drew more than 400 people on a weekday afternoon. “I said to Jim on the way in here, I’ve had an…
Next on the Mark Warner agenda: Is former governor, White House candidate ready to again be a player on Virginia political scene?
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner made it a point to tell Virginia politics reporters covering the final year of his term as governor of the Old Dominion that he really felt he was hitting his stride in the job – and while the focus of their editors seemed to be on…
Good ol’ boy Allen facing new Virginia electorate
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Story by Chris Graham Jim Webb has closed the gap on George Allen – and has even, according to one newspaper poll, surged into the lead in the United States Senate race between the two. The conventional wisdom attributes the momentum that the Democratic Party nominee has been enjoying in recent weeks to an incident…
Spirited compromise
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Story by Chris Graham Legislation opening up the Virginia cable-television market to competition among service providers isn’t exactly being welcomed with open arms by, well, pretty much anybody who was involved in the discussions that led to the compromise measure that was signed into law by Gov. Tim Kaine last week. “From our perspective, any…
