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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with John Goodwin of The Humane Society of the United States. Show Length: 11:12. It’s not often that you see legislation once viewed as highly controversial make it through a legislative session almost intact from the day it was introduced and passed…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] The life of a sportswriter … I had a 9 p.m. Sunday deadline to get my ACC women’s basketball postseason honors ballot back to the appropriate people for counting purposes. I wanted to catch a game or two Sunday afternoon before turning it in, and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” ACC Basketball Monday interview with Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Show Length: 11:29. Things are rolling along for Virginia Tech. Back-to-back-to-back wins have the Hokies back on the NCAA Tournament bubble. Not that Seth Greenberg wants anybody to talk about that. He doesn’t like the…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte For many students and families, there is the promise of higher education. But for far too many others, the burden of tuition costs is seemingly insurmountable. In Virginia, undergraduate students are paying nearly 7 percent more in tuition and fees than they did last year. The skyrocketing cost of higher education…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell Last week, a compromise was reached between the Virginia House of Delegates, the Virginia Senate and Gov. Kaine’s office to reform Virginia’s mental-commitment laws. The new laws will constitute the most sweeping reforms of mental commitment in Virginia in 30 years. I authored several bills to address aspects of…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Now that we have our women’s ACC ballot out of the way, it’s time to talk men’s hoops. My ballot for the All-ACC men’s basketball team is due Sunday night at 9 p.m. And of course we have a lot of basketball to be played…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia is going to have a vice-presidential nominee soon. Just has to be in the cards. I mean, Tim Kaine is all over the airwaves, for one. Last week, the wife turns on “Fox News Sunday,” and there our governor is, Sunday morning, 9 a.m., sitting in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] University of Virginia professor Peter Rodriguez is avoiding using the word recession right now. He’s one of the few people that I know of who is doing this, so I want to give him credit. “My take would be that we have entered a slowdown,” said Rodriguez, a business-administration professor…
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Column by Steve Landes This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I have a vote on who gets named to the All-ACC teams. Wanna help me fill out my ballots? We have to do the women’s ballots first. That one’s due Sunday night at 9. I have to tell you up front – I’m leaning toward…
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