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Column by Bob Goodlatte Just last week, the House majority unveiled their proposed budget resolution for fiscal year 2009, which calls for the largest tax increase in American history: $683 billion over the next five years. This proposal significantly increases the tax burden on the middle class to pay for new wasteful government spending. Facing a slowing…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell The Virginia General Assembly has finished the majority of its work. Bills that passed both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have now been sent to Gov. Tim Kaine for consideration. The more significant legislation from the 2008 session includes: • The most sweeping overhaul of…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] News Leader columnist and cookbook author Mollie Bryan will lead a Waynesboro Cultural Commission-sponsored workshop on “Writing Memoirs, Essays and Columns” on Saturday at Stone Soup Books in Downtown Waynesboro. Bryan is the author of Mrs. Rowe’s Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes from the Shenandoah Valley. Her essays have…
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The Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] You’ll be happy to hear that I beat the deadline for submitting my All-ACC Men’s Basketball Ballot last night. Yep. Filled it out sitting in the John Paul Jones Arena waiting for the Virginia-Maryland game to get going. And yes, I wish I had…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rick Howell remembers asking Sam Rasoul about his campaign fund-raising efforts last summer when he worked for the Sixth District Democratic Party congressional nomination candidate as his campaign manager. And he remembers that he didn’t like the answer that he was given. “I felt that Sam was rather vague with…
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Column by Sam Rasoul Life can be rough. All of us have hit rough bumps along the road. Growing up in a working-class family, sometimes carrying the burden of bringing home the presents for the family during the holidays, convinced me a teen-ager should not have to take on such responsibilities. In perspective, though, my…
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Column by Steve Landes Although there are just a few days remaining until the scheduled end of this year’s session of the Virginia General Assembly, events aren’t slowing down. This is the part of the session where delegates and senators meet to work out the final details on a wide range of legislation, and when…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Mike Krzyzewski is universally reviled in the parts of the ACC outside of Durham, but I have seen twice now how much he bleeds Atlantic Coast Conference blood. Back a couple of years ago, I famously asked Coach K about the perception that the conference…
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Story By Erin Gutzwiller Have you ever wondered how the ice cream that you eat is made, and more importantly, what it is made of? Most ice-cream connoisseurs do not know that the ingredients used to make ice cream are made from cheap and unhealthy ingredients. Which is interesting, because for me, eating ice cream…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring interviews with “Hokie Nation: A Team, A Town and the Best Darned Fans in College Football” producers Sean Kotz and Chris Valluzzo. Show Length: 23:20. I have to say, I hated every minute of the movie “Hokie Nation: A Team, A Town and the…
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