Share
– News: VCU gets TV time for BracketBusters, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – News: JMU softball picked second in preseason CAA poll, Monday, 7:25 p.m. – Video: AP Sports Monday-Lakers beat Cavs, more, Monday, 9:45 a.m. – Video: UVa. men’s lacrosse 2009 season preview, Monday, 9:45 a.m.
Share
It will be hard for Bob McDonnell to portray himself as anything other than an ideologue after this debate over smoking in restaurants in Virginia is over. “He generally believes this is an issue that should be solved by the free market and not government,” McDonnell spokesman Tucker Martin said of the attorney general and…
Share
Q: What’s a fabulous idea that somebody thinks up, takes credit for, and makes someone else pay for? A: An unfunded mandate. And oh, do those ideas abound in Washington and, more relevantly for today, Richmond. If anyone wonders why property taxes keep rising, unfunded mandates are one reason.
Share
I reached out my hand to Arlie Wolfe. “How does it feel to be a millionaire?” I asked the Middlebrook man, who, for the record, isn’t really a millionaire, no matter what the piece of paper his wife, Joan, had in her purse had to say about the matter. Arlie and Joan had bought their…
Share
– Bills prohibiting Virginia from complying with Federal Real ID Act head to floor of General Assembly, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – State awards contract for design of truck-climbing lanes on I-81 in Rockbridge, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – Libertarians call on Kaine to step down as DNC chair, Friday, 9:38 a.m. – DuPont Community Credit Union…
Share
– Rethink military escalation in Afghanistan. From Brave New Films. Length: 2:24. – Video from press conference announcing bipartisan agreement on restaurant smoking ban. From Governor.Virginia.gov. Length: 15:44. – House Republicans defeat antidiscrimination measure. From VaDemocrats.org. Length: 3:12.
Share
Here is a list of events ongoing this weekend in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
Share
A new poll has Republican Bob McDonnell leading all three of his potential Democratic Party rivals for governor this week. McDonnell leads former Northern Virginia state legislator Brian Moran by a 39 percent-to-36 percent margin in a poll released Thursday evening by Rasmussen Reports. The attorney general had trailed Moran in a December Rasmussen poll…
Share
Former Waynesboro economic-development director Meghan Williamson has signed on as the interim executive director of the Staunton Community Creative Fund, a microlending-focused small-business-development nonprofit that launched last year. Williamson stepped down from the economic-development job in Waynesboro in August. The city has yet to name a successor, and isn’t likely to have anybody heading its…
Share
Leslie Banta, owner-operator of Staunton Art Supply, will display her works Feb. 7-25 in the public art gallery at Eastern Mennonite University.
Independent media doesn’t belong to billionaires or big companies – it belongs to you. If you find value in our work, please consider a contribution.