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Column by David Cox “Which candidate do you trust?” When former governor Jim Gilmore asked that question in Buena Vista on Labor Day, roars arose from both sides: Republicans supporting him for Senate, and Democrats supporting his opponent, former governor Mark Warner. In that instant, Gilmore personalized this year’s Senate race. Gone were issues that…
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Column by Scott German For those loyal Virginia fans that made the trip to Connecticut two weekends ago and watched in dismay as the Cavaliers were mauled by the Huskies 45-10, and then headed south to the Tar hell state yesterday to watch the same outcome in Durham, I have a bridge for sale I’d…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] And JMU felt bad putting the ball on the turf a couple of times in a 31-7 season-opening loss at Duke that the top-ranked team in I-AA thought it might be able to pull out. Virginia is somewhere in the area of where James Madison is right now, but the…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] So now the world knows how badly Waynesboro wants its Obama-Biden signs. I wasn’t aiming at getting coverage on the front page of the Washington Post’s Virginia section, but sometimes these little crusades that you start at 2 in the morning trying to post an item on what you assumed…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] And you thought I was just some party hack … Yes, that was me who was quoted on the Washington Post Virginia Politics Blog today about my complaints to the Barack Obama campaign about their policy regarding yard signs. “I think they might be missing the boat,” Chris Graham, chairman…
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Column by David Reynolds Last night, if you were able break away from the distant static of the presidential campaign, there was an opportunity to participate in another campaign, this one up close and civil. There was a forum held in Lexington to have the candidates for mayor and city council (all elected at large)…
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Column by Steve Cook If you don’t follow NASA more closely than noting a space shuttle launch or space walk on the International Space Station, you may not be aware that America is building a new rocket. It’s called the Ares I, and it is America’s rocket that will carry humans into space for exploration…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] Just got forwarded by the McCain campaign an editorial from the Las Vegas Review Journal that incredulously pleads poverty for the superwealthy. The takeoff point was the line from Joe Biden in a Sept. 18 interview on “Good Morning America” in which the Dem VP nominee said it is time…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Provocative headline, yes, and no, there’s not much more than conjecture behind it. But this is among the things being talked about in local politics circles. It came up most recently with me in a conversation with a local elected official yesterday when I mentioned that I was hearing that…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] I wrote earlier – and facetiously – about Jim Gilmore’s good timing regarding his visit to Waynesboro to talk with the editorial staff at The News Virginian on Monday hours before Waynesboro City Council voted 3-0 to pass the Gilmore no car tax buck on to city taxpayers. And now…
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