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You ask me, Dave Leitao threw Sammy Zeglinski under the bus. When in reality somebody ought to be throwing him under the bus. Everybody who knew what was going on was aware what Leitao was going to do, and that it was going to involve Zeglinski’s backcourtmate Sylven Landesberg. Setting the scene – Auburn up…
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A 14-2 run gave Virginia a 56-52 lead and had the Cavs in the driver’s seat. And then they couldn’t finish the deal. “I’m obviously disappointed, particularly with our inability to play a game from start to finish that we prepared to play,” said UVa. coach Dave Leitao, whose Cavs could not score in the…
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We will be live at the John Paul Jones Arena for today’s men’s basketball game between Auburn and Virginia. Tipoff is at 4 p.m. The game is being televised on Comcast SportsNet and FSN South. Check your local listings for availability. AFP editor Chris Graham will be live courtside providing commentary and analysis. Please join…
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Two and a half cents a can or bottle. Fifteen cents a six-pack. A whopping 30 cents a case. That’s what Bruce Elder would have you paying in a new beer tax that would provide localities in Virginia with funding long ago promised by the Virginia General Assembly for local law enforcement that rarely comes…
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Tim Kaine’s budget balancing act is earning the Virginia governor critics across the Commonwealth. “While the decisions are tough and certainly not anything that the governor or anybody else would have wished for, the ultimate impact is going to be on the various localities. And the poorest school divisions are going to be among the…
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Some bad news in the short term for Staunton came out of the governor’s budget message to the Virginia General Assembly today. And then there was the good news. “The construction of the new Western State Hospital and development of the existing hospital property come as great news for Staunton,” said city manager Steve Owen,…
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A proposed increase in the cigarette tax and $400 million in cuts to K-12 education are among the strategies being proposed by Gov. Tim Kaine for dealing with the state’s $2.9 billion budget shortfall.
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Election reforms were on the mind of Attorney General Bob McDonnell today. Democratic critics of the presumptive ’09 Republican gubernatorial nominee for their part are accusing McDonnell of being a Johnny-come-lately to the election-reform game.
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The chicken, or the egg? The debate over Waynesboro’s economic future is akin to the timeless yarn over which came first, with a twist. Which should we do first in Waynesboro – build up the downtown, or rebuild our industry base?
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It’s looking like 500 workers at the Invista plant are going to be out of jobs between now and February, give or take. Let’s look at that number, 500. What does it mean to the Waynesboro economy? Because at first glance, OK, 500, that’s a lot of people, but the Waynesboro economy supports roughly 11,000…
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