Team Coverage | Mike Signer visits Waynesboro

Chris Graham

Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination candidate Mike Signer was in Waynesboro on Friday for a walking tour of Downtown Waynesboro and a visit with local Democrats in advance of the Tuesday, June 9, Democratic Party primary. AFP editor Chris Graham caught up with Signer to talk about the nomination race and later captured Signer’s talk with…

Jim Bishop | Marital musings after 42 years (Why knot?)

Jim Bishop

I was already feeling hesitant about the assignment, but as wife Anna and I entered the gathering space at Virginia Mennonite Retirement Community, the anxiety level really shot up. What have we gotten ourselves into? Who do we think we are, “preaching” to this large (over 150 people) group, many of them more knowledgeable and…

Letter | Wende Marshall

AFP

In 2007, more than 1 million Virginians were without any health care coverage and the health-care crisis in Virginia is growing. Families USA estimated that in 2006 more than 10 working-age Virginians died each week due to lack of health insurance. 

‘Hoos, Hokies on national TV

Chris Graham

A pair of UVa. games and another pair of Virginia Tech games will be broadcast nationally in September, and Tech will make several appearances on national TV throughout the 2009 football season. The Hokies’ Sept. 5 opener against Alabama at the Georgia Dome in the 2009 Chick-fil-A National Kickoff Game is set for ABC in…

In the News

Chris Graham

– Local News: Shelburne Middle School closing due to power outage, Updated Wednesday, 9:14 a.m. – Capitol Hill: Webb, Warner announce recommendation for Fourth Circuit – State News: Court overturns law prohibiting dissemination of Social Security numbers – Sports: Virginia Tech soccer coach steps down 

Bill o’ goods on swine flu

AFP

I’m still cynical, even in the wake of the first death in Virginia linked to swine flu, that we’re being oversold something here. The nature of the report from the Virginia Department of Health is fueling my continued suspicion there. Key there is the indication in the VDH press release that the unnamed victim had…