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Students will gather across Virginia on Thursday to celebrate the six-month milestone of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act being signed into law. The students will be focusing on the provision that the new law extends coverage for young adults. Starting Thursday, young adults can stay on a parent’s plan until they turn 26….
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The United Way of Greater Augusta has tapped on three community leaders to head up its 2010 fundraising campaign. Joseph and Lisa Rosenberger will serve as co-chairs of the campaign, and G. Leonard Pittman Jr. will serve as the leadership chair for the campaign. Joseph Rosenberger is the founder of Rosenberger Financial Services located in…
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By appearance, anyway, Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello has made up a huge gap in his race with Republican Robert Hurt. Two new polls out this month, including one released on Tuesday, have the race as a virtual dead heat. A Benenson Strategy Group poll commissioned by the Perriello campaign has Hurt, a state senator…
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the media in advance of the Hokies’ Atlantic Coast Conference opener with Boston College on Saturday. Opening Statement: As far as last week goes, it was a good win I’m really proud. There’s been a sense in every game where we’ve hung in there and battled and…
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Virginia Tech football coach Frank Beamer talks with the media in advance of the Hokies’ Atlantic Coast Conference opener with Boston College on Saturday. Opening Statement: As far as last week goes, it was a good win I’m really proud. There’s been a sense in every game where we’ve hung in there and battled and…
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For Virginia, the Census Bureau recently released preliminary state-level data, statistics indicating an increase in the poverty rate from 10.3 percent to 10.7. Nationwide, the poverty rates jumped to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent in 2008. As reported by the Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis: “Over 157,000 Virginians have joined the ranks of…
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At age 88, Margaret Martin Gehman of Harrisonburg has lost a little of her trademark drive, largely because she has parted company with a faithful friend. Dr. Gehman and her trusty, albeit a bit rusty, mechanical steed, a blue 1967 Volkswagen Beetle, are almost synonymous to many observers. For years she motored the streets of…
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As the 2010/2011 school year begins, new business Tiller Strings combines local teaching, quality stringed instruments, and microfinance to serve the next generation of local musicians. Tiller Strings, operating out of Harrisonburg, Virginia opened in July of this year. Owned and operated by Virginia native and longtime musician, Megan Tiller, Tiller Strings offers a local…
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An effort to get a vote on legislation repealing the don’t ask, don’t tell policy that is used to keep gays and lesbians from serving in the United States military and a vote on a bill that would open educational opportunities and a path to citizenship for undocumented Americans who are long-time U.S. residents failed…
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Jim Webb, Democrat from Virginia, who earns plaudits for his work on efforts to end economic injustice, is apparently willing to mess on his own legacy with a vote in favor of continued injustice involving discrimination against gays and lesbians serving in the U.S. armed forces. Democratic leaders are said to be counting Webb as…
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