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Staff Report UVa. news: www.virginia.edu Teresa Sullivan will succeed John Casteen as president of the University of Virginia, the school’s Board of Visitors announced on Monday. Sullivan is currently the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan. She will become UVa.’s eighth president on Aug. 1. Sullivan was…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] Albemarle County Board of Supervisors member Ken Boyd is claiming the early lead in the race for the Fifth District Republican congressional nomination. An e-mail sent out by the Boyd campaign on Monday reports that a poll commissioned by the campaign has Boyd ahead of State Sen. Robert Hurt…
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Column by Tom Perriello www.perriello.house.gov Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” In…
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Column by Robert Hurt www.roberthurtforcongress.com I am excited about this year’s prospects in Virginia! After a solid win in November, Virginia Republicans in the Fifth Districtare set to take back our congressional seat. Deemed as one of the most vulnerable seats in the entire U.S. Congress for Democrats, I am looking forward to our…
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Tech looks good in half vs. UNC, but second half shows Hokies still have work to do Story by Chris Graham [email protected] For a half, Virginia Tech looked and played like a Top 10 team. But you have to play more than a half to win on the road in the ACC. “In the second…
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Bennett gets first ACC win, but gets thrown back into grinder with home tilt against Georgia Tech Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So you’re Tony Bennett, and you’ve just won your first ACC game, and on the road, at that, at North Carolina State, literally on Tobacco Road. And you don’t get much time to…
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Staff Report UVa. sports: www.virginiasports.com Virginia men’s head basketball coach Tony Bennett has named seniors Calvin Baker, Jerome Meyinsse and Solomon Tat tri-captains of the team for the remainder of the 2009-10 season. “Calvin, Jerome and Solomon have displayed good leadership to this point in the season and I look forward to them serving…
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Column by Creigh Deeds www.creighdeeds.com Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 will be the commencement of the 2010 session of the General Assembly. This is the 60-day session when the biennial budget is adopted. This will be a tough time for Virginia government, those responsible for managing it, and those who depend on state services. In…
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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com Among the topics that are likely to be fiercely debated this legislative session are revisions to Virginia’s charter-school law. The Center for Education Reform, advocates for expanding charter schools, recently gave Virginia a failing grade on its charter school law (www.charterschoolresearch.com). An idea of what the Center feels is…
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Staff Report News Tips: [email protected] With record low temperatures and more Americans participating in federal assistance programs due to the current economic crisis, Sen. Jim Webb joined 47 of his colleagues to urge the president to speed up the distribution of funds from the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) to assist cash-strapped…
