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The Top Story by Chris Graham It has been seven months since Waynesboro City Council decided against acting on a proposal from the Wayne Theatre Alliance to have the city participate in a public-private project to renovate the 1926 downtown landmark. You’d think from listening to the rhetoric in this spring’s city-council elections that…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The focus on faith and values issues in politics is so much on the religious right and what it does to inject itself into debates on the topics of the day that one can almost fail to recognize that the religious left gets practically nothing in this respect…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Democrats are salivating at the prospect of being able to ride the wave of the political scandals involving Jack Abramoff and Duke Cunningham long enough that they can take back control of the United States Congress in the November midterm elections. Don’t expect the wave to crash down…
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Story by Chris Graham Bob McDonnell has claimed victory. Creigh Deeds has vowed to fight to ensure that every vote has been counted. And so the Virginia political world turns as the race for attorney general moves toward week three of overtime. “The people get to decide who the next attorney general is, not Bob…
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Story by Chris Graham David Harker knows he shouldn’t be here. “Most of the prisoners that returned home, over 600, were repatriated when they said the Paris Peace Accord. Most of them were pilots shot down over North Vietnam. About 150 or so of us were captured in the South. And only about a third…
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Story by Chris Graham Republican Party gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore has made headlines because he has made it known that he is serious about courting African-American voters. But is the Kilgore campaign’s voter-outreach effort sincere?
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Story by Chris Graham Gov. Mark Warner is not going to seek the Virginia Democratic Party nomination to run for the United States Senate in 2006. The question now turns to … who will seek the Dem nod in ’06? “Gov. Warner, like many other Virginia Democrats, doesn’t want to see Sen. Allen given a…
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Story by Chris Graham Tim Kaine and Jerry Kilgore are still feeling their way around the abortion-rights issue. They both might be well advised to find a path and stick to it – because the pending political battle involving John Roberts’ nomination to the United States Supreme Court promises to keep the issue in the…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The magic number for Republicans to reach is mighty, mighty low. “Dating back to 1981, no Republican gubernatorial candidate who has received less than 10 percent of the African-American vote has won the general election,” University of Virginia politics analyst Matt Smyth said.
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Story by Chris Graham Former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore has weighed in on the Republican Party lieutenant-governor nomination battle – in favor of Mechanicville Sen. Bill Bolling. Bolling, who is challenging Prince William County Board of Supervisors chair Sean Connaughton for the party nod, was a cosponsor of the legislation initiated by Gilmore that brought…
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