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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll: Should candidates for public office take money from PACs and lobbyists representing special-interest groups? Presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama has ruffled some feathers with his ban on campaign contributions from PACs and lobbyists. Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nominee Sam Rasoul has done something of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A wide load, indeed. A 28-foot-wide steel structure will be making its way up Interstate 81 from Southwest Virginia on its way to Baltimore this week, making traveling on the I-81 corridor more adventurous than usual.
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Column by Philip Day Chauncey Strong will tell you that he is fortunate, extremely fortunate, to be where he is today. In his position as the director of community services for the Phillips Programs, a nonprofit, private organization (www.phillipsprograms.org) that serves individuals with emotional and behavioral problems located in Annandale, Chauncey is in contact with…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Considering what we’ve had to go through with Michael Vick over the course of the past year, I’m not all that fond of the phrase Don’t have a dog in this fight anymore, but when it comes to the ongoing mess involving the Augusta County GOP, I really don’t have…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sure the power players are going to love their city council spending tens of thousands of dollars on a search firm to lead the process for hiring a new city manager. Oh, yeah. Because they were such big fans of the studies and reports…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Dominion Virginia Power customers could see increases in their monthly bills in the range of $15 to $20 per month. U.S. Sen. Jim Webb wants to know why. Webb, D-Va., has written the Virginia State Corporation Commission to inquire into the requested rate increase from Dominion. In a letter dated…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know he has to get tired of having to answer the same questions over and over and over. Because he can’t really answer them in any meaningful way. And yet we have to ask them, because the prospects are so tantalizing. I mean, it’s not every day that you’re…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When Gov. Tim Kaine first made the call for a June 23 special session on transportation last month, he thought there was “about a 50-50 chance” that lawmakers would be able to get something done in terms of coming up with additional monies to go toward maintenance and new road…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Is the issue really choice? Because if it’s not, Bob Goodlatte is seriously misfiring. “Rather than creating a massive government-managed health-care bureaucracy that will dictate medical decisions from Washington,” Goodlatte told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart yesterday, “we should be concentrating our efforts on making health care more affordable for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro school system is among a growing number of school systems and city and county governments nationwide embracing a four-day work week. But the idea that has been floated in City Hall in Staunton is quickly becoming a “nonstory.” “I’m not even sure I’m recommending it anymore,” city manager…
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