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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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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Paige Holder’s claim to sports-fan fame had been the two fan of the game awards he had won at Scott Stadium. “I am the only one to have won this honor more than once,” said Holder, a Waynesboro native and 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia – and finalist…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Paige Holder’s claim to sports-fan fame had been the two fan of the game awards he had won at Scott Stadium. “I am the only one to have won this honor more than once,” said Holder, a Waynesboro native and 2006 graduate of the University of Virginia – and finalist…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Rockingham County Republicans have been crying foul over how the local board of elections has decided to inform voters of the death of Commissioner of the Revenue Richard Connellee. They might have good reason to that end.
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Op-Ed by Holly Herman Unfortunately political ideology and real-life at the Virginia General Assembly are vastly different. Many people say Richmond isn’t accomplishing what it needs to benefit Virginia. In some cases that’s true, but more than not our Commonwealth earns high ranks. A little background may help to explain the seemingly slow pace and…
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Column by Chris Graham You don’t normally see one candidate taken aback at something said by an opponent at a debate. But Arin Sime’s two opponents for the 24th Senate District seat were thrown off by something that he had to say at Monday night’s candidates forum in Waynesboro sponsored by The Augusta Free Press…
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Story by Jim Bishop The Alumni Association of Eastern Mennonite University honored two of its graduates Sunday for their work in reflecting the school’s vision, mission and values. Dr. Ingida Asfaw, 67, of Grosse Pointe, Mich., a 1962 EMU graduate with a double major in biology and chemistry, and originally from Ethiopia, received EMU’s 2007…
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