Today’s Agenda

Chris Graham

AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” today at 11 a.m. to talk Virginia sports. Later today we’ll be heading out to the Valley Mission in Staunton to do a Videocast report on the Mission this holiday season. And don’t miss the special commentary on economic development in…

Waynesboro at a crossroads

Chris Graham

We all knew that we were on the verge of an economic downturn. I was selling one approach to dealing with what was to come – redoubling efforts in the economic-development sphere with an eye toward working to attract new industry in recognition of the apparent fact that the plant on the South River overlooking…

Saxman vows to protect right to work

Chris Graham

Nobody was pushing for gay marriage, either, but that didn’t stop Republicans from pushing for a constitutional amendment to ban it. Ditto now for the latest from Staunton Republican Del. Chris Saxman, who is conjuring up the idea that Virginia’s right-to-work status is under attack and promising to solve the nonissue by proposing a constitutional…

Fight for your right to T-shirts

Chris Graham

You want to wear a campaign T-shirt, button or sticker into the polling place? The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, The Rutherford Institute and the ACLU of Virginia are with you. “Election Day should be a time for celebrating the personal freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution. On that of all days,…

What does the Invista news mean to Waynesboro?

Chris Graham

In short, everything. Invista, and its predecessor, DuPont, is the last significant vestige of the city’s once-glittering manufacturing economy. According to figures from the Virginia Employment Commission, Waynesboro began 2008 with around 2,100 manufacturing jobs, with roughly 1,100 of those being at the Invista plant, either directly employed by Invista or by a contractor providing…

Today’s Agenda

Chris Graham

The news breaking this morning is that Invista is announcing another significant layoff. We’ll be providing more insight into that as the day goes on. Also this afternoon we’ll be joining in on a conference call with Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination hopeful Brian Moran and a mystery guest who is said to be a Virginia Dem…

Today’s Agenda

Chris Graham

AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on WREL-1450AM’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” this morning at 11 a.m. as he is every Tuesday to talk Virginia sports. Later today, we’ll be at the Target in Waynesboro for a Christmas shopping trip with 25 needy kids. And there might be a surprise or two to…