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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] University of Virginia professor Peter Rodriguez is avoiding using the word recession right now. He’s one of the few people that I know of who is doing this, so I want to give him credit. “My take would be that we have entered a slowdown,” said Rodriguez, a business-administration professor…
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Column by Steve Landes This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I have a vote on who gets named to the All-ACC teams. Wanna help me fill out my ballots? We have to do the women’s ballots first. That one’s due Sunday night at 9. I have to tell you up front – I’m leaning toward…
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Story by Laura Lehman Amstutz Many people prefer to avoid hospitals and nursing homes, but many Eastern Mennonite Seminary graduates have chosen these places to do ministry. About a dozen recent EMS graduates are pursuing chaplaincy roles as their ministry field, partially due to the Clinical Pastoral Education program at EMS. CPE gives students opportunity…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With just over two weeks to go, we are beginning to see which bills are going to succeed this session, and which are going to fall just short. Out of more than 3,000 bills that are introduced, only about 30 percent of them are enacted into law….
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] Raise your hand if you thought Virginia Tech would win more than four ACC games this season. C’mon. Seriously. I didn’t know that the Hokies would win a single game. I mean, you lose guys like Zabian Dowdell, Jamon Gordon and Coleman Collins in one fell swoop,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” ACC Basketball Monday interview with Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg. Virginia Tech is back on the good side of .500 in ACC play, which means that the Hokies have to be considered part of the equation when it comes to the NCAA Tournament. Seth Greenberg…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” ACC Basketball Monday interview with UVa. coach Dave Leitao. At first glance, Mamadi Diane is the odd man out in Dave Leitao’s latest rotation. Diane has been relegated to the bench for Virginia’s past three games, a 75-74 loss to North Carolina and a 79-74…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon quickly reshaped the priorities of Congress, the president, and the Department of Justice. We immediately began working on securing our own country by coordinating our national anti-terrorism efforts, increasing information-sharing among our intelligence agencies, and strengthening our…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell With the worsening budget numbers, the House of Delegates released its biennial budget. Unlike the governor’s budget, the House budget does not cut $220 million in school construction and lottery money that was going to local schools. These cuts would have cost my four local school divisions over $3…
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