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Best Seat in the House column by Chris Graham [email protected] The life of a sportswriter … I had a 9 p.m. Sunday deadline to get my ACC women’s basketball postseason honors ballot back to the appropriate people for counting purposes. I wanted to catch a game or two Sunday afternoon before turning it in, and…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] He knew he could make a difference. He didn’t know how. “When I first moved to West Africa, it was about 11 years into a brutal civil war that most people here don’t know about because of the blood diamond issue. Tens of thousands of 7- and 8-year-old boys were…
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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…
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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Mankind’s earliest writings were often tales of cowardice, courage, and finally redemption. The familiar theme seems to spring eternally from our very bone marrow, and that – perhaps – is what makes “The Kite Runner” resound with such clarity.
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With the bang of the speaker’s gavel at noon last Wednesday, the 2008 session of the Virginia General Assembly began. It’s fitting that the bang of a gavel sounds a lot like the firing of a starter’s pistol in a track race. In Virginia, the legislative session…
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Column by Jim Bishop I’m thinking of you today because Christmas is near, and I wish for you that often elusive but sorely needed gift of happiness. And as we stand poised on the cusp of a new year, I will continue to wish you happiness as we gravitate ever so surely into 2008.
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Op-Ed by Larry Yates We should all welcome the recent decision by the U.S. Sentencing Commission to allow crack-cocaine sentences to be reduced retroactively. But we should also pause to recognize what it means. This decision is a clear statement about a social phenomenon that most Americans want to deny – institutional racism.
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNERS: Frank Lucente and Tim Williams join bond parade I’m calling them winners here not related to the politics of the issues involving bonds for a new West End fire station and improvements to the city library and the city stormwater system, because frankly my view on…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] WINNER: Chris Long is unanimous first-team AP All-American And he finished 10th in the Heisman voting – becoming the fifth UVa. player to do so. Not bad for a stud 4-3 defensive end who had to face double- and triple-teams in a base 3-4. Long will get…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Al Groh started the 2007 season on the hot seat. He ended it as the ACC coach of the year. “When a team is fortunate enough to win the Atlantic Coast Conference championship, they get a trophy symbolic of that achievement. We’re not going to get that trophy this year,…
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