A cold night at JPJ, no excuses for Leitao, quit yer whinin’ about the NFL Network

Chris Graham

The Best Seat in the House Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I didn’t know why it was so cold – all I knew was that I felt a noticeable chill in the air from my seat on media row at the John Paul Jones Arena Wednesday night. I say noticeable because my memory from the…

SVRA service to connect directly with United hub at Dulles

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Air travelers leaving the Shenandoah Valley for the Northeast now have to budget for as much as six or seven hours of time in the air and in the airport. Beginning Feb. 18, they can cut that time by half or more. Colgan Air and the Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport…

Breaking ground on the Silicon Shenandoah

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It took a year to get from the first public announcement to the groundbreaking. The question now is, how long does it take to go from groundbreaking at the new SRI International Center for Advanced Drug Research in Rockingham County to the point where we start referring to the Valley…

Referendum mess, Saxman and the Senate, let it snow

Chris Graham

Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Waynesboro government How much more can you screw an election up than they did here in the River City? Well, you could forget to advertise it in the local paper – whatever that is supposed to be worth in this day and age of newspaper readership….

Three at a time

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Basketball coaches are assumed to prefer layups and short and medium-range jumpers to shots from behind the three-point arc that offer high reward in terms of the amount of points that can be scored per basket but at considerable risk to one’s offensive efficiency. And if you’re looking at Dave…

Binding hidden wounds

David Cox

Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…

Much-needed immigration reforms

Chris Graham

Column by Bob Goodlatte The United States of America is a nation of immigrants. Legal immigration has blessed our nation with talent, diversity, and a commitment to freedom. However, we are also a nation of laws. Illegal immigration mocks our system of justice and costs our taxpayers billions of dollars every year, while taking jobs from law-abiding…