Chili, Blues n’ Brews Festival features Grammy nominee
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Boom! Boom! Boom! That’s the theme for this year’s Virginia Chili, Blues n” Brews Festival, which features Grammy-nominated blues legend John Lee Hooker Jr.
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Defense, retirees focus of Senate candidates
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U.S. Senate candidates Tim Kaine and George Allen spent time on Tuesday talking with voters on issues related to defense and veterans issues.
Ken Plum: Voter fraud at the highest levels
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Over the last several years there has been a proliferation of bills introduced in Virginia and in many other states to prevent voter fraud. Conspicuously missing from the debate on these bills has been any specific examples of voter fraud having been committed. In fact, the greater problem with voting has not been that persons have been fraudulently voting; voter participation in Virginia and the nation has been embarrassingly low. The emphasis needs to be on getting more people to vote and not to make the process more cumbersome and bureaucratic that it discourages voters.
Joint town hall to discuss summer events at UVa.
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State Sen. Creigh Deeds and State Del. David Toscano will be hosting a joint town hall with State Dels. Steve Landes and Jimmie Massie to discuss board governance at the University of Virgnia and potential legislation for the 2013 General Assembly session.
State Board of Elections launches new website
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The State Board of Elections today marked the launch of its new website at SBE.Virginia.gov. SBE’s new website contains numerous improvements specifically geared towards educating voters for the upcoming November general election.
Clabough to be featured at EMU event
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Casey Clabough, author of memoir The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, a book about his travels through the Shenandoah Valley, will be the speaker at the opening event of the 2012-13 “Writers Read Dinner and Author” series on Thursday, Sept. 20.
Press Conference: Frank Beamer
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer takes questions from the news media in advance of his team’s game this weekend with Bowling Green.
Chris Long makes significant gift to UVa. practice facility
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Chris Long, a former All-America defensive lineman at Virginia and current member of the St. Louis Rams in the National Football League, has made a $300,000 contribution to the Virginia Athletics Foundation for the new George Welsh Indoor Practice Facility. Long is currently in his fifth season with the Rams.
PPP: Kaine holds narrow lead in Senate race
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A new poll from Public Policy Polling gives Democrat Tim Kaine a narrow one-point lead over Republican George Allen in the tight Virginia Senate race.
Analysis: Why is Kaine running behind Obama?
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Barack Obama has had a consistent small but relatively safe lead in the polling done in the Virginia presidential race over the course of the past several months. Fellow Democrat Tim Kaine, meanwhile, has been stuck in a virtual dead heat in his U.S. Senate race with Republican George Allen dating back to mid-2011. Begging the question, What gives?
