Notes from the Press: AFP editor on WINA this afternoon

Chris Graham

Notes from the Press column by Chris Graham [email protected] AFP editor Chris Graham will appear on “Charlottesville-Right Now!” on WINA-1070AM in Charlottesville today at 4:30 p.m. to talk Virginia and U.S. politics. Graham will join host Coy Barefoot for a solid half-hour of politics talk. More on WINA at www.wina.com.

Harrisonburg: Professor to lead forum on breast-cancer research

Jim Bishop

Item by Jim Bishop Breast cancer will afflict one of every eight American women in her lifetime. A pharmacologist who is doing cutting-edge research on separating normal and cancer cells will discuss her work in this area at the second Suter Science Seminar of fall semester at Eastern Mennonite University. Jeannine Strobl, professor and pharmacology…

Waynesboro: Former Mississippi governor to campaign for Obama on Thursday

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Former Mississippi governor Ray Mabus will be in Waynesboro on Thursday to lead a “Real Change for Rural America” community forum for the Barack Obama presidential campaign. Mabus served as governor of Mississippi from 1988-1992 and was selected as the best governor of the millennium in a 1999 poll commissioned…

Winners and Losers: Al Groh, Ned Yost, JMU-App State, Ed Hochuli

Chris Graham

Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] GROH-ING SENSE OF IMPENDING DOOM: Another blowout loss UConn. had a tough time beating Temple. Showing that Al Golden knows something that Al Groh doesn’t. That 45-10 loss that the Huskies hung on Groh’s Cavs might as well have been 45,000,000-10 the way it’s going over in Hooville. My take:…

White House ’08: McDonnell talks up McCain, energy issues in ’08 race

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Attorney General Bob McDonnell is applying for another job next year, as you might have heard. But first things first. McDonnell is focused through Nov. 4 on the ’08 elections and what he can do to help keep Virginia in the Republican Party column. “It’s a competitive state. It’s obvious…

Business and Politics: Do tax cuts spur economic growth?

Chris Graham

The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] (Second in a series.) “There’s no surer way to kill economic growth and kill jobs than raising taxes in tough economic times.” Former Virginia attorney general and ’05 gubernatorial silver medalist Jerry Kilgore is echoing there what has become the Republican Party mantra dating back to Ronald Reagan….

Staunton: Legislation to preserve access to records of past presidents introduced in Congress

Chris Graham

Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library had a hand in crafting proposed federal legislation that would create a competitive grant program to encourage the preservation of and public access to historical documents and records of past presidents. The legislation, The Presidential Historical Records Presentation Act of 2008, S. 3477, was introduced…

Kara West: There but for the grace of God go I on health care

Contributors

Op-ed by Kara West I am a very lucky woman, and I know it. I have no out-of-pocket expenses for health care thanks to the forward thinking of my progressive employer. Unfortunately many working Virginians don’t enjoy this basic benefit. I haven’t always been in this position, and while it feels luxurious, it should be…