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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It sounds good when Bob Goodlatte puts the numbers in front of us. Virginia has 57 million barrels of recoverable oil and more than 300 billion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas on the waters off its outer continental shelf. That’s a lot of dadgum oil and natural gas, right?…
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Story by Edward Tutwiler “I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.” – George Eliot Looking backwards on missed opportunities…
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Column by Jim Bishop Elvis Aron Presley – actually, all one needs to say is “Elvis,” and you know who I mean – would be 73 years old on Saturday, Aug. 16, the 31st anniversary of his death. Some insist he still is, spotted at K-Mart, at Burger King or being chauffeured in one of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Application are being taken for special lottery deer hunts in Grayson Highlands State Park, Kiptopeke State Park, Lake Anna State Park and Pocahontas State Park, the the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation announced this week.
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] BELATED NOD TO CITY COUNCIL: Helmet law passes without incident I remember thinking when I first heard that Waynesboro City Council was considering a new ordinance that would require moped drivers and riders to wear helmets something along the lines of, “No way in Hades this thing ever passes.” And…
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Fear and Loathing on the Trail column by Chris Graham [email protected] An online petition is drawing attention to Sixth District Congressman Bob Goodlatte’s flip-flop on the New G.I. Bill. Virginia Veterans for Obama co-director Terron Sims has initiated the petition drive to raise issue with a campaign mailer sent out by the Goodlatte congressional office…
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Notes from the Press column by Chris Graham [email protected] Programming Note: I’m going to appear as a guest on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” show with host Coy Barefoot at 4:15 p.m. today. Coy and I will be talking Virginia and presidential politics. WINA is online at www.wina.com.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s not just slasher movies and “American Pie.” I think conservatives have a point that the movies that we see playing at the multiplex every weekend are pushing the envelope quite a bit. Even supposedly family-friendly movies feature language and situations that I don’t know that I feel…
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Compiled by Chris Graham [email protected] THEY CALLED HIM ‘TURD BLOSSOM’: Karl Rove assails Tim Kaine I think I agree with Tim Kaine. When they send Karl Rove out to attack you, well … “Will all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he’s been a governor for three years,” Rove told Bob Schieffer on the CBS…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] To hear John McCain’s Virginia campaign co-chair, Staunton Republican Del. Chris Saxman, tell it, Tim Kaine all but sold presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama down the river this week in an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “We are glad Gov. Kaine is following John McCain’s leadership and has…
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