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Tech steamrolls FSU, headed to Orange Bowl, BCS Tyrod Taylor threw for 263 yards and accounted for four touchdowns, and Virginia Tech took control after a back-and-forth first 30 minutes en route to a 44-33 win over Florida State in Saturday’s ACC Championship Game. The win was the 11th in a row for the Hokies…
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Stickback at buzzer sends JMU to loss in CAA opener Jihad Ali’s offensive rebound and putback just before the buzzer gave Georgia State a 64-63 victory over James Madison in the Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball opener for both teams on Saturday afternoon at the GSU Sports Arena. JMU had its six-game winning streak snapped,…
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Rams rally in second half For nearly two years, Head Coach Shaka Smart of the Virginia Commonwealth University has preached a “Wreaking Havoc” style of play. To be a championship caliber team, his Ram squad needed to show the ability to win low-scoring, grind it out games. On Saturday, in the Colonial Athletic Association opener,…
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Brian Moran will succeed Dick Cranwell as chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Moran, a former state delegate and 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate, bested former Arlington County Democratic chair Peter Rousselot in voting by the party’s State Central Committee. “I want to thank Peter Rousselot for running a great campaign and raising a…
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This weekend the Senate will finally be voting on the Bush tax cuts. This should not be a controversial vote for our leaders in the Senate. In fact, this is the first issue of the lame duck session where the public is overwhelming in agreement. A CBS poll this week found that only 26 percent of…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell will call for $50 million in new higher-education spending in his amendments to the 2010-2012 state budget, he said today. McDonnell made the announcement as part of the rollout of Preparing for the Top Jobs of the 21st Century: The Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011, a legislative package that he…
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David H. Shenk is leaving his home in Harrisonburg for South America on Sunday, Dec. 5, and doesn’t expect to return for two years. It’s a long time to be gone, but he’s ready to put into action that which he feels prepared to do. Shenk, 23, was born at Shenandoah Hospital in Woodstock, Va.,…
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The Virginia Department of Transportation completed installation of 70 mph speed limit signs in November, more than a month before the estimated completion date of Dec. 31. The initiative results in 61 percent of Virginia’s interstates having speed limits of 70 mph. The last segments – Interstate 95 from Ashland to Spotsylvania, the southern piece…
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Editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” for their weekly look at the latest news in Virginia politics. The segment begins with a discussion of an interview done by the Washington Post of Gov. Bob McDonnell in which McDonnell sidestepped a question on whatever interest he might have in a spot on the…
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I don’t personally have any issue with the notion that government needs to be run more efficiently and run more like a business. Anybody with experience managing a business or organization knows that there are inevitably inefficiencies that can be accounted for and corrected to make things run more smoothly. A problem I have is…
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