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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Sam Rasoul forced the Sixth District Democratic Party to live up to its name. It had been 10 years since the party had even tried to challenge Republican Congressman Bob Goodlatte in the Sixth, after his 40-point win over then-Roanoke mayor David Bowers in a race that had seemed at…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Danville Register and Bee endorsement editorial put it well, I think. Noting that the paper hadn’t endorsed a Democrat since Virgil Goode was a Democrat, the editorial board relayed that it is changing course not because it is leaving Virgil Goode. “Virgil Goode,” the Register and Bee said, “has…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You hate to think that getting the doors blown off by the perennial league doormat was something that had to happen to get you where you are today. But when you’re Virginia, and you’ve run the table since losing 31-3 at Duke a month ago and are now sitting in…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Skyline Drive has been given the designation of National Historic Landmark by U.S. Secretary of Interior Dirk Kempthorne. “This designation reminds Virginians of what an extraordinary national treasure we have in the Skyline Drive and the Blue Ridge Parkway, that portion of the road extending beyond Shenandoah National Park,”…
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Column by David Reynolds As usual Thomas Jefferson got it right. He wrote, “The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny is to illuminate the minds of the people.” TJ would not have been pleased with the lack of illumination during the 2008 presidential campaign – much heat, little light. Jefferson…
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Video from the remarks offered by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner at the Barack Obama rally at the JMU Convocation Center on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Length: 7:00.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The face and voice of WSLS news anchor John Carlin has been a reassuring presence in living rooms up and down the Valley for more than 20 years. His days in the big chair are counting down now, though. Carlin is leaving the Roanoke NBC affiliate on Nov. 28 to…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] One news organization estimated that there were 28,000 people all told in and around the Convocation Center on the campus of James Madison University for the Tuesday campaign rally featuring Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama. I don’t know that I could dispute the figure, based on the queue, or…
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Video from a Tim Kaine web ad that was cut to accompany the release of a radio ad featuring the Virginia governor talking up his support for Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama. Length: 1:06 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGXSplVbJY&e]
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Why in the world, you’re asking yourself, is Barack Obama spending half his day on Tuesday in the Central Shenandoah Valley that went 70 percent for George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004? A better question, given a look at the ’08 poll numbers, might be, Why in…
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