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We’re running a few minutes behind to get to the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner to hear former President Bill Clinton, and my wife, Crystal, is at wit’s end. We’d spent the sunny, springlike afternoon with my college roommate and his wife in Richmond and taken our swanky dinner clothes with us to change there instead of being…
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The newspapers continue to tell us of the shortfalls in the Virginia State budget and of the drastic cuts our Governor has been forced to make due to our failing economy. The media keeps reporting on more and more programs that are on the chopping block. Many of these programs are essential to the health…
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– News: Voter-restoration bill passes Virginia Senate, Monday, 7:40 p.m. – News: Shannon earns AG endorsements, Monday, 7:22 p.m. – News: House GOP talks up transportation-funding plan, Monday, 7:22 p.m. – News: Moran picks up endorsement of former Democratic Governors’ Association director, Monday, 2:45 p.m. – News: Poll suggests support for stimulus, Monday, 2:45 p.m….
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– News: VCU gets TV time for BracketBusters, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – News: JMU softball picked second in preseason CAA poll, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – Video: AP Sports Monday-Lakers beat Cavs, more, Monday, 9:45 a.m. – Video: UVa. men’s lacrosse 2009 season preview, Monday, 9:45 a.m.
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It will be hard for Bob McDonnell to portray himself as anything other than an ideologue after this debate over smoking in restaurants in Virginia is over. “He generally believes this is an issue that should be solved by the free market and not government,” McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said of the attorney general and…
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Q: What’s a fabulous idea that somebody thinks up, takes credit for, and makes someone else pay for? A: An unfunded mandate. And oh, do those ideas abound in Washington and, more relevantly for today, Richmond. If anyone wonders why property taxes keep rising, unfunded mandates are one reason.
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I reached out my hand to Arlie Wolfe. “How does it feel to be a millionaire?” I asked the Middlebrook man, who, for the record, isn’t really a millionaire, no matter what the piece of paper his wife, Joan, had in her purse had to say about the matter. Arlie and Joan had bought their…
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– Bills prohibiting Virginia from complying with Federal Real ID Act head to floor of General Assembly, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – State awards contract for design of truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in Rockbridge, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – Libertarians call on Kaine to step down as DNC chair, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – DuPont Community Credit Union…
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– Rethink military escalation in Afghanistan. From Brave New Films. Length: 2:24. – Video from press conference announcing bipartisan agreement on restaurant smoking ban. From Governor.Virginia.gov. Length: 15:44. – House Republicans defeat antidiscrimination measure. From VaDemocrats.org. Length: 3:12.
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Here is a list of events ongoing this weekend in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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