Slade joins broadcast team on UVa. football radio broadcasts

Virginia Sports Properties, a division of CBS Collegiate Sports Properties, the multimedia rights partner of the Virginia athletics department, announced today that former Cavalier defensive end Chris Slade has joined the Virginia Sports Network. Slade will serve as the sideline reporter for Cavalier football games after Tim Sherman decided not to return for the 2009…

Chris Graham | El Presidente

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You might have seen the news in Friday’s News Virginian about me being named president of the Waynesboro Generals Valley League baseball team. If not, check it out here. The story is by NV sports editor Rob Sisk. The next year is going to feel presidential, alright. It’s not quite turning around a tanking economy…

The Agenda | Weekend of Aug. 8-9

Chris Graham

Looks like we’re going with the expansive definition of the Shenandoah Valley for the conclusion of the Deeds Country Tour. The closest the tour will get to the actual Shenandoah Valley is on Sunday when it wraps in Deeds’ home Bath County with a homecoming event. Which is all well and good, but we’re leaving…

Greg Marrow | Tyco closing represents a wakeup call

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Sadly, more of our friends and neighbors will be laid off from work with the closing of the Tyco plant in Mount Sydney. Our communities have seen far too many of our manufacturing jobs lost, and employers moving or closing their doors. Unfortunately, far too little has been done at the General Assembly level to…

Paul Fleisher | Stepping back from nuclear terror

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President Obama recently reached a tentative agreement with the Russian leadership to reduce our two nations’ nuclear arsenals by up to 25 percent. In his April address to NATO, the president described several additional steps to address the nuclear danger. Reducing the risk of an accidental or intentional nuclear holocaust somewhere on our planet should…