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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m sure the power players are going to love their city council spending tens of thousands of dollars on a search firm to lead the process for hiring a new city manager. Oh, yeah. Because they were such big fans of the studies and reports…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Dominion Virginia Power customers could see increases in their monthly bills in the range of $15 to $20 per month. U.S. Sen. Jim Webb wants to know why. Webb, D-Va., has written the Virginia State Corporation Commission to inquire into the requested rate increase from Dominion. In a letter dated…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] You know he has to get tired of having to answer the same questions over and over and over. Because he can’t really answer them in any meaningful way. And yet we have to ask them, because the prospects are so tantalizing. I mean, it’s not every day that you’re…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When Gov. Tim Kaine first made the call for a June 23 special session on transportation last month, he thought there was “about a 50-50 chance” that lawmakers would be able to get something done in terms of coming up with additional monies to go toward maintenance and new road…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Is the issue really choice? Because if it’s not, Bob Goodlatte is seriously misfiring. “Rather than creating a massive government-managed health-care bureaucracy that will dictate medical decisions from Washington,” Goodlatte told News Virginian reporter Bob Stuart yesterday, “we should be concentrating our efforts on making health care more affordable for…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The Waynesboro school system is among a growing number of school systems and city and county governments nationwide embracing a four-day work week. But the idea that has been floated in City Hall in Staunton is quickly becoming a “nonstory.” “I’m not even sure I’m recommending it anymore,” city manager…
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] John Lawrence told me last week that he was interviewed about his interest in running for city council by a group that included Dave Wolfe, Tom Reider and Roger Willetts. Noticeably missing from the list of people leading the effort to run somebody were the…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Senate Democrats failed today to muster enough votes to block GOP filibusters on measures that would have imposed a windfall profits tax on oil companies and offered tax relief to consumers feeling the pinch at the gas pump. Hurray. “It is a disappointing day when the Senate can’t work in…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] A seven, and then an eight. That’s how many current and former Valley League players were taken in last week’s Major League draft.
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Fear and Loathing in Waynesboro column by Chris Graham [email protected] I’m still struggling with where our would-be mayor is coming from regarding what he seems to think he wants out of our next city manager. “I, basically, want a city manager to give me the facts, not his opinions or lobbying for a particular cause…
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