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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell As the final deadline approached for consideration by the Virginia House of Delegates, the legislative committees considered the last of my bills.
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‘Hoos, Hokies get glimpse at ’08 schedules
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] Look at the schedules. Just look at ’em. Virginia Tech could be favored in all 12 of its regular-season games in 2008. Virginia, meanwhile, could be an underdog in six of its dozen. The ACC released football schedules for the ’08 season today – and…
Loser: Dave Leitao
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] Sorry, Dave – I just call ’em as I see ’em. And what I’m seeing right now is a team that has long since been lost to you. Granted, things still seemed to be OK when you were 10-2 and heading into Xavier thinking that another quality…
Tigers feast on Cavalier
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Story by Scott German Years ago, legendary Clemson head football coach Frank Howard routinely refereed to playing the Virginia Cavalier football teams as “white meat” for his Tigers. If Howard were alive today and witnessed Clemson’s 82-51 enihaltion of Virginia Thursday night, he would have been hard pressed to find anything resembling meat about the…
Fighting the bureaucracy
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline If the Virginia General Assembly is a 60-day legislative battle, this week was filled with several skirmishes between those of us fighting to reform the state bureaucracy and the bureaucracy fighting back. I generally introduce several government-reform bills each year because I continue to believe that government…
Rasoul wants to ‘redefine politics’ in Sixth
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He barely has to shave, and he wants to be your congressman. “In all honesty, it’s a shock at first,” said Sam Rasoul, 26, of Blue Ridge, who has been running hard for the past year for the Democratic Party nomination to challenge incumbent Republican Bob Goodlatte for the Sixth…
Yankees coming to Blacksburg
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Don’t get your hopes up about seeing the New York Yankees when they come to Blacksburg next month. There will be no tickets available to the general public for the March 18 exhibition game between Virginia Tech and the Yankees at English Field. The school is making 3,000 free general-admission…
No frustration in ‘Hooland, no, sir
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring interviews with Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg and Virginia basketball coach Dave Leitao. Interesting column over the weekend by Bob Lipper of The Times-Dispatch contrasting the approaches of UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao and Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg. Not that Dave…
Promoting responsible government
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Working to reduce government waste is a significant undertaking and one to which I remain firmly dedicated, even in a Congress where excessive spending runs rampant. It is critical to ensure that the Congress responsibly manages federal spending, especially our tax dollars, to fund our nation’s priorities through greater transparency and…
Bell’s public-safety bills pass committees
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell As we near the midpoint of session, the committees are deciding which bills to endorse and send on to the entire House. Last week, three of my bills passed important hurdles. No Bond After Conviction for Violent Felons Earlier this year, a jury convicted a Culpeper defendant of abduction…
