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“Many of our schools are failing and our dropout rate is too high, but the VEA finds time to advocate for illegal same sex marriage,” said Victoria Cobb, President of The Family Foundation, in a statement highlighted in a news release from the social-conservative organization based in Richmond.
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Or can you? We don’t know because of what we don’t know. And that is the problem. So we take chances thinking that the more we know the better our chances of success. And that creates an even bigger problem – one that allows us to believe that we are smarter than we really are.
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The July 17th performances of “The River City Radio Hour” will be headlined by Sound Direction, an a cappella sextet, and the world famous Washboard Wonders. Sound Direction had a loyal following before it went into hiatus four years ago. This will be their first appearance since reuniting. The group includes John and Bettie Tindall,…
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ShenanArts is proud to announce its upcoming production of the immensely popular, classic American musical Annie. The 1977 Tony award winner for Best Musical will open on Friday, Aug. 7. There will be performances on Aug. 7-9 and 14-16 at Stage4 Theatre in Verona.
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With all of the controversy surrounding the construction of a coal plant in Wise County, VA it bears repeating that coal is not clean energy. The phrase “clean coal technology” fosters hope that scientists will find a way to take harmful elements, especially carbon, out of coal. Unfortunately this is a lost hope as the…
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I get that the flap over Gov. Tim Kaine’s travel schedules got going because Republicans didn’t have anything better to do with their time this summer. But the wild swing by GOP chair Pat Mullins has connected solidly and sent the political baseball uncomfortably toward the cheap seats in deep left-center, uncomfortably, that is, for…
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Wonder if there might have been more to the scheduling conflict that kept Creigh Deeds away from that Barack Obama health-care town hall in Annandale last week? “You could argue in light of these numbers that it wouldn’t be that helpful for Creigh Deeds to have Barack Obama come and campaign for him. At the…
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Friday, July 10 – AG Race: Cuccinelli calls for special session – 20th House: Saxman statement on anti-gang committee Thursday, July 9 – Dems respond to McDonnell-Bolling jobs agenda Wednesday, July 8 – LG Race: Wagner calls Bolling out on Palin visit – Governor’s Race: Statement from Creigh Deeds on expansion of stem-cell research
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Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Staunton native Francis S. Collins as director of the National Institutes of Health at the Department of Health and Human Services. Collins, a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project, served as Director of the National…
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Waynesboro is on tap to receive a $684,000 Community Development Block Grant to go toward a rehabilitation project in the floodprone Arch Avenue/Market Street neighborhood. The grant was announced today by Gov. Tim Kaine in conjunction with more than $14 million in Community Development Block Grants awarded statewide.
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