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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham It just occurred to me – how silly this whole Two Virginias thing is. And no, I’m not channeling John Edwards here. I’m talking about how there’s a Virginia and a West Virginia. Really – do we need to have a Maginot Line separating the two of us?…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The conventional wisdom is that the military vote and veteran vote both tend to lean strongly in the Republican direction – but Democratic Party Senate nominee Jim Webb, a Vietnam War veteran and former Reagan administration Navy secretary, might just be able to turn the conventional wisdom on…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Mark Warner sure has come a long way since the days when his claim to political fame was that he once came in second among candidates with the surname Warner in a United States Senate race. The former one-term Virginia governor is now considered by more than a…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “You’re going to need some makeup,” the director told me at the required all-hands staff meeting following the taping of my new TV show on WVPT, “Virginia Viewpoints.” “I …” “No, seriously. You’re too … shiny.” “Too shiny?” “You could probably lose another 20, too,” my friend Eli…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham I’m waiting … Been waiting all night. As I type this column, I’m participating in my annual fantasy-football draft. For those uninitiated, this is where I get together with a dozen or so friends and play pretend football. Sorry – duty calls. MichaelVickFanClub selects Willis McGahee. I’m not…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The adage in the world of sports has it that it is sometimes better to be lucky than it is to be good. Jim Webb could argue that the same might be said of life in the world of politics. The Democratic Party Senate nominee entered the month…
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Story by Chris Graham A man who identified himself as a supporter of Democratic Party Senate candidate Jim Webb was escorted from a George Allen campaign event in Staunton today after interrupting the start of a local press availability with the senator to ask him a series of questions that included a racial slur. “Have…
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Story by Chris Graham A large video screen in the John Paul Jones Arena replayed scenes from a ballyhooed “live sex celebration” that WWE heavyweight champion Edge and women’s champion Lita had taken part in several months earlier. And that was early in the “Monday Night Raw” show that was broadcast live on national television…
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Story by Chris Graham Sure, it matters that Crozet’s population is expected to triple in the next 20 years. But Mike Marshall wasn’t looking that far into the future. “Crozet was longing, I thought, for a way for the community identity to get out,” said Marshall, the editor of The Crozet Gazette, a monthly newspaper…
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Story by Chris Graham It’s funny to think of now, but the people in charge of planning and designing University Hall actually had it in mind that they were going to end up with an arena that was going to serve many more purposes than simply hosting college-basketball games. “When you look at when…
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