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Column by Tony Panaccio Submit guest columns: [email protected] I wish hypocrites had seasons, like allergy season. Every spring, we all know that the dander will be flying and most of us will be loopy on antihistamines to keep us from sneezing our proboscis off. That’s why I wish there was a hypocrites season, so…
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Column by Erik Camayd-Freixas Submit guest columns: [email protected] On April 23, Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law a draconian bill that flies in the face of the United States Constitution and undermines the core values upon which this nation is founded.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Redshirt senior Brett Garner (Burke, Va./Lake Braddock) connected on a solo home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth to give James Madison a walk-off 5-4 win over Delaware to earn the Colonial Athletic Association series sweep on Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at Veterans Memorial…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] AFPTheMagazine.com offers up information on the candidates for public office in contested races in Staunton and Waynesboro to be decided on May 4. Free public service of AFPTheMagazine.com.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] The Wildlife Center of Virginia announced on Tuesday that Buddy, the bald eagle from Norfolk admitted to the Waynesboro-based Center as a patient in May 2008, will become a permanent resident at the Center.
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Review by Chris Graham [email protected] I was finally able to watch the MSNBC documentary on Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh – “The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,” which debuted on April 19, the 15th anniversary of the domestic terrorist bombing.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You don’t have to tell UVa. baseball coach Brian O’Connor that Virginia Tech is ranked 20th in the Baseball America national poll this week to get him to think about how good the Hokies are on the diamond. That lesson came last spring when Tech took two of three…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Last Friday, April 9, was the 145th anniversary of Robert E. Lee’s surrender to Ulysses S. Grant at Appamattox Court House in Virginia. Although hostilities ended that day, the war of words over the causes and outcomes of the Civil War continues to rage.
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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected] Senior Matt Browning (Mystic, Conn./Fitch) dropped a single down the right-field line to drive in the winning run as James Madison earned a walk-off win in the 11th inning, 7-6, over William and Mary to earn the Colonial Athletic Association series sweep on Sunday afternoon at Eagle Field at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Bob McDonnell has declared April to be Confederate History Month, but if you’ve read a newspaper or turned on the TV news anytime in the past few days, you knew that already. You also know that plenty of people are plenty mad that he did this, that plenty…
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