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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Writers get the question constantly. “Where do you get your ideas for stories from?” Here’s what we want to say: “Inspiration.” And here’s what we have to admit: “We just pay attention.” “Stories are basically about people who are changed by some type of experience that they’re going through. They…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] MUCH ADO ABOUT … HOUSES? McCain owns at least one “I’ll have my staff get to you,” John McCain told an interviewer when asked how many homes he owns. I know a lot of to-do has been made about this. Methinks it might be too much. I mean, if it’s…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Since nobody called, I decided to go ahead and volunteer my name to the Barack Obama VP selection team for vetting. I know it’s a longshot, but … I’m thinking that the Obama people are struggling as to which direction to take. I mean, it’s been weeks…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling apparently got the memo about making sure to talk up John McCain – and take a shot or two at Barack Obama. “Contrary to, I guess, conventional wisdom, I happen to be one who believes as this campaign moves forward that Sen. McCain’s candidacy in Virginia is going…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Barack Obama campaign has a new TV that began airing in Virginia and several other battleground states beginning today that highlights the Obama tax plan that the campaign says will cut taxes for middle-class families three times as much as the McCain tax plan and also brings attention to…
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Special Commentary by Chris Graham [email protected] The small but cheery group of Republicans who are doing what they can to boost Jim Gilmore in his Senate race against Mark Warner are heartily pushing, following Gilmore’s lead, the notion that he is a fiscal conservative and that Warner is a tax-and-spend liberal and so you ought…
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Fear and Loathing in Staunton column by Chris Graham [email protected] So I was talking with a Staunton city-leader friend the other night about the apparently dormant case of the newspaper ad that spawned so much controversy on the eve of the Staunton City Council elections back in May. You might remember the bare details of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The Lynchburg Ledger will moderate a YouTube debate to give voters a chance to learn more about Sixth District congressional candidates Bob Goodlatte, Sam Rasoul and Janice Lee Allen. The virtual debate is the brainchild of the Rasoul campaign, which has put up a website, www.virginia6.com, and put out a…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Fifth District Democratic Party nominee Tom Perriello picked up the endorsement of the Virginia AFL-CIO over the weekend. “On behalf of the 150,000 Virginia union members represented by the Virginia AFL-CIO, we are proud to endorse Tom Perriello for Congress,” Virginia AFL-CIO president Jim Leaman said at the organization’s state…
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Column by Jim Bishop MINERAL COUNTY, W.Va. – The phone call from Uncle Phil Dayton, my mom’s youngest brother, came weeks before the event, a personal invitation, and I thought, yes, why not? We pass this way but once. I’m glad we decided to make the two-and-a-half-hour trip to suburban Short Gap. It was an…
