
EMU announces additions to faculty
Eastern Mennonite University will have five new full-time teaching faculty when fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year begins Sept. 1.

Eastern Mennonite University will have five new full-time teaching faculty when fall semester of the 2009-10 academic year begins Sept. 1.

Tim Kaine went Mark Warner to win the 2005 governor’s race. Creigh Deeds is channeling his inner Barack Obama. “This evening, President Barack Obama will join Creigh Deeds and Governor Tim Kaine as we work to kick this campaign into overdrive – and in conjunction with his visit, we’re launching a full scale organizing campaign,…

The Creigh Deeds campaign released two new campaign radio spots today – one featuring information on how voters can sign up to receive campaign-news updates on their mobile phones, the second featuring Gov. Tim Kaine in Spanish reaching out to Spanish-language voters. You can listen to both spots below.

‘Cause he had timin’… A ticka-ticka-ticka good timin’ . . . – Jimmy Jones (1960) How often do our lives take a different twist because of a few seconds or minutes separating us from certain calamities on life’s thoroughfare?

Governor Timothy M. Kaine today released the following statement in response to the clemency petitions of Danial Williams, Derek Tice, Joseph Dick and Eric Wilson:

A. Jerry Benson, PhD., vice provost for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Health and Human Services at James Madison University, has joined the RMH Board of Directors. Benson also is a professor of graduate psychology at JMU. In 2007, he co-founded the JMU-RMH Collaborative with RMH President and CEO Jim Krauss.

Bridgewater College welcomes seven new faculty members, a visiting professor and promotes one adjunct to instructor for the 2009-2010 academic year. The faculty members, who will arrive on campus in late-August for faculty meetings prior to the start of classes on Sept. 1, will join the departments of communication studies, computer science, education, health and…

Barack Obama rode the change we need to the White House. Al Groh will have to see some change indeed to keep his job. “I don’t know if there’s a number of games he has to win. It’s hard to say that on the front end, because a lot depends on how the season unfolds,”…

AFP editor Chris Graham talks UVa. football with VirginiaSports.com news editor Jeff White. The quarterback controversy, the linebacker situation, how much rein Al Groh will give new offensive coordinator Gregg Brandon and how much more reign Groh will have in Charlottesville are among the topics. Length: 7:58.

Today begins and ends with the Barack Obama-Creigh Deeds events in Tysons Corner. The president will appear on behalf of the Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee at a fundraiser at the Hilton McLean Tysons Corner this afternoon, then deliver remarks at a rally for Deeds at the Hilton with Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine also in attendance…