Half-Truths and No-Truths
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– The green legislation that won’t cost you $3,100 a year – The automatic pay raise that Mark Warner didn’t vote for
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Unemployment in Waynesboro tops 10 percent
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The unemployment rate in Waynesboro jumped the 10 percent mark in February, according to figures released on Wednesday by the Virginia Employment Commission. The rate was at 10.3 percent, more than double the 4.9 percent rate in the city in February 2008. There were 629 more people out of work in Waynesboro in February 2009…
The Rumor Mill Says …
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– That Reo Hatfield is going to run for City Council. – That Cory Alexander is going back to the UVa. bench. – That a local paper is going online-only.
Landesberg’s first impression: Bennett is ‘great guy’
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The next question at UVa., after, Who is going to be the new basketball coach, was, What is Sylven Landesberg going to think of the guy? No need to worry there. “First impression – right off the bat, I thought he was a great guy,” Landesberg told reporters Wednesday after the press conference in which…
Scott German | Bennett introduced as new UVa. head basketball coach
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Tony Bennett, the former head basketball coach at Washington State, is the new head coach at the University of Virginia. Bennett was introduced to about three dozen media members and about 150 others, including donors and University officials, Wednesday at the John Paul Jones Arena. Bennett recently completed his third year in Pullman, where he…
Terry-as-a-DINO
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“There has always been a question about whether Terry McAuliffe would really stand behind President Barack Obama if he were elected governor of Virginia. It’s one thing to say you will, but by having a fundraiser with Ed Rogers he’s proven that he won’t,” former Virginia Beach City Councilwoman Louisa Strayhorn said in a statement…
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
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– State News: Kaine announces agreement on passenger rail in Lynchburg, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Report explores defense-contractor case decline, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – Capitol Hill: Perriello proposes earmark reform, Wednesday, 4:15 p.m. – State News: Kaine signs law barring REAL ID compliance, Wednesday, 10 a.m. – Capitol Hill: GSA outlines proposed public-building…
VCU set to introduce new hoops coach
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Virginia Commonwealth didn’t wait long to find its next head basketball coach. Former Florida assistant Shaka Smith will be introduced at the Siegel Center in Richmond on Thursday as the new head man. Smart, 32, replaces Anthony Grant, himself a former Florida assistant, who left VCU last week to take the head job at Alabama.
Greg Marrow | Transportation fix
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Recently there has been much discussion, which is gathering momentum, to privatize the 41 rest areas along the 325 miles of I-81 in an effort to save the Virginia Department of Transportation about $12 million. While this may sound appealing in the short term, it will do little, if anything, to solve the much larger…
UVA makes it official: Tony Bennett hired as men’s basketball coach
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It’s official – Tony Bennett is the new men’s basketball coach at the University of Virginia. “Tony Bennett comes to the University of Virginia with a plan to build our program,” said UVa. athletics director Craig Littlepage, whose own future at the University seems to hang in the balance with the much-discussed hire, at $1.7…
