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Column by Philip Day Mentee. It’s a strange word. The word is sometimes confused with those sea creatures known as “manatees.” Wikipedia defines a manatee as “large, fully aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning ‘beast.’ ” No, a…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] The New Jersey Turnpike in the Shenandoah Valley. That’s what critics of the Virginia Department of Transportation’s Interstate 81 widening plan envision happening if the engineers get their wishes. “For us, our mission is to protect farms, forests, open spaces and cultural heritage – and this is impacting all of…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” interview with Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg. Show Length: 9:22. The final score was 92-53. Might as well have been 92,000,000-53 for the way that it felt. “Obviously I’m disappointed with the way that we played this weekend. But I’m not totally discouraged,” Virginia…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to “The SportsDominion Show” interview with UVa. basketball coach Dave Leitao. Show Length: 11:38. Want to know the key that turns the UVa. basketball engine? OK, so that’s Sean Singletary. But the internal combustion comes from a guy named Lars. “It just confirms what I had been thinking to…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Perhaps one of the most important responsibilities of the United States Senate is to give the president’s pending federal nominations a prompt vote in order to ensure that federal courts and agencies have the personnel they need to best serve the American people. Currently, there are more than 180 nominees awaiting…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell One of the General Assembly’s biggest jobs in 2008 is to craft the two-year budget that will begin on July 1. This year, the economic slowdown – especially in the housing industry – has meant that revenue is $1.4 billion below projections. Although the overall budget is increasing slightly,…
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Column by Steve Landes In last week’s column, I mentioned how many bills we had to process before the midpoint of the General Assembly session, commonly referred to as “crossover,” on Feb. 12. In just one day, Monday, Feb. 11, the House considered more than 200 bills. In order to complete this task, we began…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] The first thing that caught my attention regarding the news of the tragic shootings at Northern Illinois University yesterday – how quiet the media seemed to be about the whole thing. Remember the wall-to-wall coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech that commenced pretty much as the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I look at the voter turnout in Tuesday’s presidential primaries here in the Central Shenandoah Valley, the breadbasket of the Virginia GOP, and have to wonder about the fall elections. It was a bare majority, but still a majority, of voters who voted the Democratic primaries in Greater Harrisonburg and…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] Sorry, Senator … You’re going to have a hard time in November here in Virginia. No doubt about it. And you know why. What … do I have to spell it out? OK, here goes. I live in the reddest part of Virginia, maybe of the entire…
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