Scott German | Storm clouds on the horizon for Leitao

Scott German

Sixteen first-half points for UVa in Saturday’s horrendous 73-62 home loss to Florida State. And it took a late fury to reach that dubious total. If you listened to Virginia coach Dave Leitao’s press conference, the reason for the struggle is obvious, plain and simple – this team is young, very young. A roster that…

Spinning irony

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“This legislation is monumental,” Ben Carter, the president of the Greater Augusta Regional Chamber of Commerce, wrote in a partisan-tinged letter to the editor published in The News Virginian last week, in which he recited the GOP talking points on the Employee Free Choice Act, legislation making its way through Congress that would put into…

Bob Dickerman | Colonel Christmas

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When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas. Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service…

Shop green at Cranberry’s

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You can shop green at Cranberry’s in Staunton – it’s official. The Virginia Tourism Corp. has designated Cranberry’s Grocery & Eatery as a Virginia Green designation. “We had to apply to get this label,” says Linda Taylor, the manager of the eatery, “starting with a description of our recycling program – which in our case…