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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Waynesboro city employees They get an extra day off this year – Christmas Eve. Not for nothing, but maybe we should all have somebody legislate the rest of us extra paid holidays – at somebody else’s expense. LOSER: Mr. Congressman, Virginia had the first Thanksgiving Sixth…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] LOSERS: Virginia beats #17 Arizona, doesn’t get a sniff in national polls I know – the polls don’t mean anything this time of year. But still … I’m guessing nobody saw the game – it ended early Sunday morning local time – and that somehow the final…
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Item by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia and Virginia Tech are about to play The Biggest Football Game Ever Played. And you know how it’s going to turn out. Tell us how you see things going on Saturday in You Be The Analyst. I wish I could offer a neat prize – but I guess being…
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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] “And I’m not just talking about people saying, ‘Miami stinks.’ Everything was, ‘F this,’ ‘F that.’ ‘F everything.’ The whole game.” Hokie Nation, you ought to be ashamed of yourselves. Come to think of it … College Football Nation, we ought to all be ashamed…
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Story by Lawrence Smith The West Virginia Record The lawsuit against an alleged Virginia private investigator should be dismissed because the state residents who’ve filed it against him have either failed to be specific in their claim or the issues have been addressed in other courts, says the man’s attorney.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Two books in 12 months – and he’s working on a case that could easily lead to a third. But Staunton Commonwealth’s attorney Ray Robertson is too busy with the particulars of the saga involving the prosecution of After Hours Video on obscenity charges to worry about the literary aspects…
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Op-Ed by Edward B. Carter I would like to personally thank Augusta County for the 222 direct votes that I received Nov. 6, 2007, in my write-in candidacy for sheriff of Augusta County.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] OK, so they have a bigger building – a much, much bigger building. But the fanfare over the formal opening of the new Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services Harrisonburg Regional Laboratory and Office is about more than additional space. “There have been a lot of concerns that people…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Did you see the news this week about how Virginia leads the country in the percentage of vehicles that have vanity license plates? Y-O-U-D-I-N-T? Well, let me tell you … W-E-R-V-A-N-E. I know I spelled that wrong. W-E-R-V-A-I-N was already taken.
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Column by Bob Goodlatte Last week, newly elected French President Nicolas Sarkozy addressed a Joint Session of Congress during his first official visit to Washington. Upon his election in May of this year, President Sarkozy immediately reached out to the United States, signaling his desire to end the tension that has existed between our two…
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