City Council candidates meet at forum

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Coverage by Chris Graham [email protected]   The four candidates for Waynesboro City Council met today in what will be their only joint appearance in advance of the May 4 city elections. The candidates forum at the Waynesboro Senior Center put on display the contrasting styles and visions of the candidates for the open Ward C…

Ken Plum: No movement on transportation

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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   Ask any of the residents of Northern Virginia to name the top two or three major challenges facing the region and virtually all will include traffic congestion. Yet with this well defined need and the election of a new governor who ran with a “transportation plan,” the legislature adjourned…

Webb statement on health-care reform

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Submitted Item News tips: [email protected]   U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., delivered the following statement today on the Senate floor regarding health care reform and the reconciliation process: “I would like to take some time this afternoon and perhaps, being the eternal optimist, speak in hopes that once this process is over in the next…

Jaime Gonzalez: Immigrants still fighting for basic rights

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Column by Jaime Gonzalez Submit guest columns: [email protected]   My parents are Americans. They are citizens of this great country, which they are proud to call home. They are also immigrants. My father immigrated to this country from Mexico in 1972 when he was 18 years old. At the time he wanted little more than…

GOP candidates press Perriello – and each other

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello is facing a full-court press from the Republicans gunning for the chance to knock him off in November. The press might work better if the GOP’ers weren’t trying at the same time to steal the ball from each other. “My opponent Jim McKelvey put…

David Reynolds: Paradise lost

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Column by David Reynolds Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Does anyone out there in paradise care about anybody besides themselves? If not, then we have lost a community. We have lost paradise. Over 700 area residents attended the SRO public hearing held last week at the Rockbridge County High School to hear comments on the…

The new, new conventional wisdom on health care

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Report by Chris Graham [email protected]    Jody Grogan thought, like a lot of hardcore health-care reform advocates, that Congress was thisclose to passing … something. “I’m one of these real cynics about Congress now,” said Grogan, a retired teacher who lives in Staunton, and worked locally last summer as an organizer on the reform effort,…

Letters to the Editor

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– Guns, guns, guns! – Transparency     Guns, guns, guns! Letter from Linda Bartlett, Farnham     Have Virginia lawmakers gone crazy? Where were they when Virginia Tech students were slaughtered? Guns, guns, guns! I am so tired of being in a state that approves gun laws that were prevalent in the old west. We took…