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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When we think the words attorney general, we think crime and justice. We don’t think about the role that an attorney general plays in how government runs on a day-to-day basis. Just because we don’t think about it doesn’t mean that it’s not an important part of the job.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Chris Long is OK with the pomp and circumstance that goes with being a projected top-two or top-three pick in the NFL Draft. I say that, and then I think, you know, that maybe he’s not. “The only thing that’s taxing or annoying about it is that I’m not really…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte In a letter written by Benjamin Franklin to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, Franklin said: “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” Taxes may be a certainty for every American, but high taxes shouldn’t be. As you know, lower taxes put more money in the hands of…
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Item by Jim Bishop Eastern Mennonite University will culminate activities marking its 90th anniversary year with its annual commencement exercises to be held 1 p.m. Sunday on the front lawn of campus, weather permitting. President Loren Swartzendruber will confer 411 degrees – 291 undergraduate, 89 graduate, 17 associate degrees, 7 graduate certificates and 7 Study…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Big news for James Madison University coming out of the Virginia General Assembly yesterday. State legislators approved $2.6 billion in bonds for capital-improvement projects at higher-education facilities, mental-health facilities and state parks. Included in the total were $167 million in capital projects at JMU.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] State Del. Chris Saxman, R-Staunton, feels good about what the General Assembly was able to do in its $2.6 billion bond package to further capital-improvements projects in the Central Shenandoah Valley.
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] More than 40 girls from the Central Shenandoah Valley and other parts of Virginia will be expanding their horizons in math and science this weekend at James Madison University. The Expanding Your Horizons conference will be ongoing on Saturday at the ISAT/CS building at JMU with students in grades 9-11…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] State legislators today approved a $2.6 billion bond package that will fund a host of important infrastructure improvements across the Commonwealth. State Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, talked up the improvements that will be in the works in the Greater Augusta area as a result of the action in the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Renowned French painter Thierry Marquis will unveil his new painting of Woodrow Wilson at an event at the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library in Staunton on Saturday. The unveiling will be at 11 a.m. in the library’s historic gardens. Marquis will be at the library from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m….
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Column by Bob Goodlatte A recent statistic from the Department of Justice shows that someone is assaulted in the U.S. every 7.2 seconds, raped every 2.7 minutes and murdered every 31 minutes. These figures are truly disturbing and something must be done. That is why I joined my Republican colleagues from the House Judiciary Committee…
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