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AFP editor Chris Graham sat down with Democratic Party lieutenant governor nomination candidate Pat Edmonson Wednesday night to talk about her campaign. Edmonson, a member of the Virginia Beach School Board, entered the race for the party nomination in January. Length: 9:52.
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A surprise move by the House Appropriations Committee has put local public-broadcast programs like “Virginia Insight” and “Virginia Farming” up on the chopping block. The Appropriations Committee in the Republican-majority House of Delegates voted to slash $3.2 million from funding to public television and radio stations. The impact to local public-TV station WVPT would come…
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The Waynesboro Family YMCA and Augusta Free Press Publishing are teaming up to offer Y Magazine – a full-color tabloid magazine complete with health columns and tips and a complete program guide for the Y. The first issue will be available in April, and a limited number of advertising spots are available on a first-come,…
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Jim Webb isn’t your average run-of-the-mill partisan whose vote can be accounted for solely based on his Democratic Party pedigree. The centrist Virginia senior senator studied the economic-stimulus plan making its way through Congress line item-by-line item. “I had to be able to sit up here as I am right now and say, This is…
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One of the first headlines I noticed last Sunday morning and gave much thought to during the course of that day was “Crafting a Plan B for tough economic times: What’s your Plan B if your current job becomes another casualty of the recession?”
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Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Pat Edmonson will make a campaign stop in Waynesboro Wednesday night. Edmonson will speak at the Waynesboro Democratic Committee meeting being held at the Waynesboro Public Library, Meeting Room A, at 7 p.m. The public is invited to attend.
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It’s everything you wanted to know about the stimulus – an attempt at that, anyway. “While we wait to learn what conditions will be placed on the federal stimulus monies received by the states, we want to start collecting ideas from all over the Commonwealth to ensure the money is spent in a timely and…
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