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Story by Chris Graham Staunton Braves fans know their baseball. This is a warning to Virginia Gov. Mark Warner, who will be throwing out the first pitch at Sunday night’s Staunton-Woodstock game in John Moxie Memorial Stadium. They’re going to expect a strike, Mr. Governor.
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Story by Chris Graham U.S. Sen. George Allen isn’t taking the political attacks being lobbed at his former secretary of public safety, Republican Party gubernatorial nominee Jerry Kilgore, lightly. “I read with bemusement Tim Kaine’s reaction to Jerry Kilgore’s positive proposal to continue battling violent street gangs in Virginia, many of which are made…
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Everyone around me is taking a vacation these days. It just doesn’t seem fair.
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Story by Chris Graham You don’t hear a lot of Republicans talking about health-care reform. “And I don’t know why that is, because one of the things that I believe in very strongly is that one of state government’s most important responsibilities is making sure that we have a system of health care in Virginia…
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Story by Chris Graham The eyes of the nation are on the 2005 Virginia gubernatorial race, said Mary Matalin, a political commentator and former advisor to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. “This race is and will be the most-watched race in the country,” Matalin told Republicans across the state gathered for a…
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Story by Chris Graham Backdoor tax increases resulting from increases in local property-value reassessments are “unfair,” Republican Party gubernatorial-nomination frontrunner Jerry Kilgore said on Wednesday. “I don’t know about you, but the only number that I care about as a taxpayer goes in that little box on the right-hand side of each check that I…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The magic number for Republicans to reach is mighty, mighty low. “Dating back to 1981, no Republican gubernatorial candidate who has received less than 10 percent of the African-American vote has won the general election,” University of Virginia politics analyst Matt Smyth said.
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine spent a good part of his day on Wednesday talking about how he wants to take steps to strengthen regional economies in Virginia. So … what would the presumptive Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee do to improve the lifeblood of Western Virginia’s regional economy that is Interstate 81?
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Oh, it brought back bad memories. Really, really bad memories. A skit on Saturday Night Live would have been a riot to anyone watching … Justin Timberlake dueling it out with a competing restaurant – both decked out in egg costumes.
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Story by Chris Graham Somebody forgot to tell George Fitch that he was supposed to have given up on his bid for the Republican Party gubernatorial nomination a long time ago. “I’ve got another 10,000 miles between now and the primary,” said Fitch, the Warrenton mayor, who is waging the most grassroots of campaigns for…
