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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Bad news, Tech fans. If West Virginia has any sense in its institutional head, it will hire your defensive coordinator away. Bud Foster is long since ready for the move from Defensive Genius Without Peer to major-college head coach. Virginia football fans will remember his…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: The BCS Did you read about how the BCS blocked a Virginia Tech-Oklahoma Orange Bowl that the schools and the bowl wanted? I’m thisclose to boycotting college football altogether. It’s the best sport in the world September-through-early December. Then it’s a series of glorified exhibitions. WINNER:…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Divorce reform, restrictions on abortion and continued funding for abstinence-only sex education. The Family Foundation of Virginia and the Valley Family Forum have a healthy appetite – but whether they can fill their plate in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly remains to be seen given the changes in the composition…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte With the holiday season fully upon us, and the rush to complete last-minute Christmas-present purchases under way, it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, and in the process somehow lose sight of more important things.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The short-term worry is about a planned seven-mile improvement project on Interstate 81 in Rockbridge County. The longer-term worry is about the rest of the 325 miles of I-81 in Western Virginia. “That’s the biggest concern that I have – because this seven-mile project, while it is overly broad, and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bath County Sen. Creigh Deeds announced this morning that he will run for the Democratic Party nomination to run for governor in 2009. Deeds made the announcement in an online video posted at his new campaign website, www.DeedsforVirginia.com. “I’ve spent my career as a consensus builder — a listener —…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Imagine not knowing where your next meal is coming from. For a growing number of families in the Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia, this isn’t something that is too hard to conjure up in the mind. Hunger is a reality in our area – yes, even here, in the robust…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Frank Lucente and Tim Williams join bond parade I’m calling them winners here not related to the politics of the issues involving bonds for a new West End fire station and improvements to the city library and the city stormwater system, because frankly my view on…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Chris Long is unanimous first-team AP All-American And he finished 10th in the Heisman voting – becoming the fifth UVa. player to do so. Not bad for a stud 4-3 defensive end who had to face double- and triple-teams in a base 3-4. Long will get…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Kudos to The News Virginian for keeping Waynesboro city government accountable on the issue of the snafued-up Nov. 6 bond referendum. But … What about the paper’s own accountability in the mess involving the legal ad that was supposed to be published in the NV 10 days prior to the…
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