Kaine announces additional staff hires
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Sen.-elect Tim Kaine announced additional members of his Senate staff on Monday, including two Capitol Hill veterans to lead his Washington-based communications team.
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Darius Ross: Raise Minimum Wage to Lift Our Economy in New Year
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As a longtime businessman, I see a deficit in America that has received far too little attention. That’s the wage deficit experienced by growing numbers of Americans, with serious consequences for our economy.
Late December tours of Staunton
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Staunton Guided Tours will host a Guided Trolley Tour of Historic Staunton on Dec 26-29 and Dec 31st leaving the Visitors Center at 35 S. New St. at 11 a.m.
Jeri Schaf: No Government Checks in Your Mailbox Beginning in March
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By March 1, 2013 all federal benefit payments will be electronic. This includes payments for Social Security Retirement, Social Security Disability, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Veterans Administration, Office of Personnel Management, and Railroad Retirement benefits.
‘Hacksaw’ Jim Duggan: 30 years with Old Glory
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You think of “Hacksaw” Jim Duggan, and three letters immediately come to mind. “U-S-A!” “People will ask me, Hacksaw, do you ever get tired of it?” said Duggan, who will face Daivari at New Year’s Chaos, Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013 at the Virginia Horse Center in Lexington.
Nan Grogan Orrock: Reshaping Pentagon spending
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With the campaigns over, our leaders must roll up their sleeves and get to work on the serious financial decisions facing the nation. Congress has known for more than a year that automatic budget cuts and tax increases loom in January, but they’ve left all the work to be done at the last minute. They need to hear from us that we expect them to make a balanced deal to preserve programs that strengthen our nation while making sensible budget cuts to programs that are wasteful or unnecessary.
McDonnell proposes 2 percent pay hike for teachers
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Gov. Bob McDonnell joined Del. Kirk Cox and former Secretary of Education Jim Dyke, leaders from the Virginia School Boards Association, Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Virginia Association of Elementary School Principals, Virginia Association of Secondary School Principals and key business leaders on Thursday to announce part one of his 2013 K-12 education reform legislative agenda.
ERSC Members Visited Elkton Welcome Center
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Thirty-one East Rockingham Senior Center members, volunteers and employees visited the Elkton Welcome Center on December 12. While this was actually the second visit for some of our members, many had never been to the center.
Dustin Rhodes: Out of the darkness
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When Dustin Rhodes was mulling over the offer to headline New Year’s Chaos, the debut show of Top Rope Pro Wrestling, he quietly asked who else was going to be a part of the show. Now we know why. “If I get booked on a show, I want to make sure that that locker room is not full of a bunch of drunks and things like that. Because that’s not good for me,” said Rhodes, who lists getting clean and sober at the top of his list of career accomplishments after 25 years in the pro-wrestling business.
McDonnell includes $250K in state budget for Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center at VCU
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Gov. Bob McDonnell’s biennial budget amendments, to be officially released on Monday in his annual speech to the Joint Money Committees, will include $250,000 in state support for the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
