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Even though the start of the 2012-13 basketball season is still more than two weeks away, excitement is building at Eastern Mennonite as the women are gathering some national attention. Although not ranked in the top 25, the women have received votes in both the D3hoops.com and the USA Today/ESPN Coaches preseason polls.
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At my press conferences last week, I called out Bob Goodlatte on a particularly important falsehood. Goodlatte had blamed the Democrats for the gridlock in Washington, but the truth, I said, is that gridlock was a deliberate strategy of the Republicans to try to regain power by making President Obama fail.
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John Jones saw an ad promoting Open Mic Night at the WTA’s Gateway, and decided to make the drive over the Blue Ridge on a foggy night to sing a couple of tunes. He didn’t expect to be the winner of the inaugural competition opening Season Two of Open Mic Night.
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The non-profit League of Conservation Voters (LCV) helps Americans sort out the good guys from the bad when it comes to the environmental track records of candidates in important high-level races across the country. Besides endorsing specific candidates, the group also keeps a running “dirty dozen” list of the politicians with the worst environmental records. Meanwhile, the group’s LCV Action Fund is a related political action fund that can channel funding to the candidates it supports.
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The State Board of Elections voted in a special meeting on Wednesday to request that Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli look into allegations of voter-registration dumping in Rockingham County.
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The State Board of Elections is cooperating with the ongoing investigation of an alleged voter fraud case in Rockingham County, according to a statement from the secretary of the State Board of Elections, Donald Palmer, released on Tuesday.
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Obama for America will be holding an event featuring Bruce Springsteen, local elected officials and volunteers on Tuesday, Oct. 23. As part of the Obama campaign’s effort to turn out voters across the Commonwealth, Springsteen will give a special appearance at the nTelos Wireless Pavilion in Charlottesville.
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NC State has been picked as the favorite in the first Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Basketball Coaches Preseason Poll announced on Monday.
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After a month-long vote, the community has spoken. With over 360 ballots cast in person at area libraries and online, the clear winner for 2013’s One Book One Community selection is Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. Bryson’s book brought in 33% of the votes and edged out four others to become the 2013 selection.
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The deadline to apply to register to vote in Virginia for the November 6, 2012 General Election is Monday, October 15th.
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