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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…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Shenandoah Valley is among the reddest parts of red-state America. Tim Russert, God rest his soul, needed a brighter shade for us to get across just how red we are. George W. Bush got 74.4 percent of the vote in Augusta County and Rockingham County in 2004,…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m guessing Stephen Colbert and Charlie Rose didn’t get the memo that Jim Webb is out of the VP Sweepstakes. The Virginia Democratic senator will be double-dipping tonight on the late-night TV circuit. Webb will appear on “The Colbert Report” on Comedy Central at 11:30 p.m., and on “Charlie Rose”…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] “Radical centrist.” The words don’t seem to go together, but then you listen to Mark Warner describe the concept that he’s trying to sell, and it makes a lot of sense. “We’re going to have a window in January of ’09, whether it’s McCain or Obama, and if we can’t…
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] The battle of two ex-governors is still looking like a Mark Warner landslide. A Rasmussen Reports poll released today has the Democrat Warner ahead of Republican Jim Gilmore by a commanding 57 percent-to-34 percent margin. The poll was conducted on Wednesday of 500 Virginia voters.
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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s a dead heat in Virginia between Barack Obama and John McCain. That’s the rendering of a Rasmussen Reports poll of 500 Virginia voters released today. The poll, conducted on Wednesday, had Obama and McCain each drawing 44 percent of the votes of those surveyed.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] An urgent message from a business colleague yesterday. “Call me. Private.” I’m expecting some sort of scoop. I had no idea I would be the subject of the scoop. Turns out that somebody is calling around asking friends and former and current business associates the…
