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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s Thanksgiving – and on this day when we are supposed to reflect on reasons that we all have to be thankful, I thought it appropriate to muse on the reasons that newsmakers in Virginia might have to be thankful this holiday season. Ahem. Here goes.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Cathy Campbell wants to learn more about how African-Americans in rural Virginia facing tough end-of-life decisions go about making those decisions – so she’s been hitting the road a lot lately to ask folks to share their wisdom.
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] I complain a lot in this column – really, a column should be about 95 percent complaining, and 5 percent finding tearjerking stories to show folks that the writer has a heart. But I digress – because this is one of the 19 of 20…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Saxman sees the political battle up ahead as “an uphill sled.” But the Shenandoah Valley legislator isn’t one to shy away from a fight. And no, I’m not talking here about his own dalliance with a run at the Republican Senate nomination in 2008. “John McCain is an American…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Waynesboro city employees They get an extra day off this year – Christmas Eve. Not for nothing, but maybe we should all have somebody legislate the rest of us extra paid holidays – at somebody else’s expense. LOSER: Mr. Congressman, Virginia had the first Thanksgiving Sixth…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Virginia beats #17 Arizona, doesn’t get a sniff in national polls I know – the polls don’t mean anything this time of year. But still … I’m guessing nobody saw the game – it ended early Sunday morning local time – and that somehow the final…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia and Virginia Tech are about to play The Biggest Football Game Ever Played. And you know how it’s going to turn out. Tell us how you see things going on Saturday in You Be The Analyst. I wish I could offer a neat prize – but I guess being…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] “And I’m not just talking about people saying, ‘Miami stinks.’ Everything was, ‘F this,’ ‘F that.’ ‘F everything.’ The whole game.” Hokie Nation, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Come to think of it … College Football Nation, we ought to all be ashamed…
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Story by Lawrence Smith The West Virginia Record The lawsuit against an alleged Virginia private investigator should be dismissed because the state residents who’ve filed it against him have either failed to be specific in their claim or the issues have been addressed in other courts, says the man’s attorney.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two books in 12 months – and he’s working on a case that could easily lead to a third. But Staunton Commonwealth’s attorney Ray Robertson is too busy with the particulars of the saga involving the prosecution of After Hours Video on obscenity charges to worry about the literary aspects…
