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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” to hear Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg talk about his team’s preparations for the 2008 ACC Tournament. Show Length: 9:55. You’re Seth Greenberg, and you want to be happy about how far your team has come this year. I mean, you were picked to…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline Under Article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, “no regular session of the General Assembly convened in an even-numbered year shall continue longer than sixty days.” That means that the 2008 session should have adjourned for the year on Saturday, March 8. However, as the hours passed last Saturday,…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine knows that Virginia lawmakers have a tough job. But … A deadline is a deadline is a deadline is a deadline. “We have a very short legislative session compared to most states. Most states have three-, four-, five-, six-month sessions, they’re in all year. The fact…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with UVa. senior point guard Sean Singletary. Show Length: 15:00. Sean Singletary cried enough tears during Virginia’s seven-game losing streak to last him a lifetime. Senior Night wasn’t about tears for the UVa. point guard. “I think because we lost so much,…
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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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