81+11 equals …

Chris Graham

Column by Chris Graham  The Virginia Department of Transportation is staring down the barrel of a $6 billion gun with regard to improvements that need to be made to Interstate 81. And the transportation folks are working with two private outfits – Fluor Virginia and Star Solutions – to look at how the project might…

Will you marry me … again?

Chris Graham

Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Three years ago this month, I did just about the stupidest thing I think I could have ever done in my life. I proposed to my wife. Wait a second. That didn’t come out right. (I’m in the doghouse, big time, and I’m what? Like, 50 words into…

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Crystal Graham: A pillar of the community gone

Crystal Graham

The September 11 attacks on America brought down two pillars of the New York community, the World Trade Center towers. The towers were something that all Americans looked at as symbols of strength, power and freedom. On September 17, a pillar of another community – a lesser-known town, Owatonna, Minn. – also fell.