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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Why is Bob Goodlatte banging the drum on the Second Amendment? “You can count on me to fight to protect our rights,” Goodlatte wrote in a fund-raising letter dated May 16 that he began with mention of a case now in front of the United States Supreme…
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Item by Crystal Graham [email protected] It’s not your everyday banjo. With musical instruments being cranked out of big factories every day, Geoff Stelling’s handmade banjos are a true rarity. The Afton-based business produces just 200 or so banjos annually. Geoff’s son, Jimmy, who works with his dad in the business, is a banjo player who…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] How about the sudden about-face of our would-be mayor? “I don’t see any need to air out our discrepancies and our differences. Kind of give Mr. Walker respect,” Tim Williams said in a voicemail message to the News Leader that was reported in that paper’s…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] The man who would be mayor slinked out of the city-council chambers quietly through a back door. He didn’t want to face the group of close to 50 people who had just given the man that he had asked three weeks ago to submit his…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] It’s all good for Mark Warner right now with five months and change to go to Election Day. Warner is viewed favorably by just under half of registered voters in Virginia, according to a poll conducted by Virginia Commonwealth University that was released today.
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The Local Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Opinions Wanted! Click here to learn more A local union leader e-mailed me yesterday in reference to our Top Story (“The other side of discrimination,” May 26 AFP) to weigh in on the issue of race discrimination in the workplace in the Shenandoah Valley.
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Poll Question: Have you been victim of racial, gender or sexual-orientation discrimination in the workplace? Stanley Smith is known to his friends as Bubba, and he has a lot of friends – white, black, Latino. He’s like a lot of us in that respect. He’s also a little-league baseball…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I was supposed to interview a bestselling author in person here at the Augusta Free Press headquarters on Friday, but Ellis Nassour never showed. I chalked it up to his busy schedule. Nassour was in the Valley over the weekend for auditions for the upcoming…
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The Politcs Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] Jim Webb just makes too much sense as a VP on the Barack Obama ticket. And no, you can’t see where this column is going, so stay with me here. I’ll finish the above thought, which again is not where this column is going. Ahem. Webb brings Virginia…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Some random thoughts on what’s going on in sports these days … – How do you like the way UVa. is selling its football packages next year? You can buy Southern Cal tickets without having to buy season tickets now, but you have to buy them…
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