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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] The House of Representatives has passed back to the Senate a bill that would help homeowners caught up in the ongoing foreclosure crisis, even as a pair of Virginia congressmen facing re-election battles voted against the measure. “Congressman Goode is clearly out of touch with the honest, hardworking people of…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Arkansas and Arizona are moving from the tossup into the red column. South Dakota and, significantly, Florida, are now being looked at as too close to call. This is the rendering of Zogby International, which has presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama with leads in states that would give…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] I don’t know about you, but whenever I’m speaking into a live microphone at a public event, you know, it’s just hard to resist the temptation to drop an f-bomb here and there. Good news – next time I’m in Norfolk, I can drop as many f-bombs…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The latest housing-market news is in. I’ll be an optimist and called it a mixed bag, even as Fred Morgan, a Realtor with 1st Choice-GMAC in Staunton and a member of the Greater Augusta Association of Realtors, admits to being a bit shocked when he first saw the latest sales…
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] No, I wasn’t the guy who gave Virginia a first-place vote. So you can quelch that rumor right here and now. Not that I think the Cavs are going to finish fifth in the Coastal Division of the ACC in 2008, either. In fact,…
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Item by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University is among 25 schools in the Old Dominion taking part in Virginia Private College Week, July 28-Aug. 2, sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges in Virginia. Rising juniors and seniors in high school – and their families – may choose to visit just one or two colleges…
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Item by Mary K. Heatwole Bridgewater College is the recipient of a $189,139 support grant from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. The 2008 year-end distribution grant will benefit the college’s operating budget, student scholarships, undergraduate research and other projects and programs on campus.
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] “Gas prices – $4, $5, no end in sight, because some in Washington are still saying no to drilling in America, no to independence from foreign oil. “Who can you thank for rising prices at the pump?” the announcer intones, and then you realize what you were hearing in the…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Why does the New York Mercantile Exchange care who represents the Sixth District in Virginia in the United States Congress? Or Koch Industries? Or the American Meat Institute or Alabama Farmers Federation or California Dairies Inc.? I’m asking because I’m poring right at the moment through the list of contributors…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSER: The Constitution of the United States of America The McCain peeps are making a big deal about how David Petraeus doesn’t agree with Barack Obama on Iraq timetables. OK, I’ll bite. Are they trying to say that the president works for the general now, as opposed to it being…
