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Next time you see a car, van or truck driving by you with a government license plate, look closely. Chances are there’s a GSA logo in the corner. GSA is shorthand for the U.S. General Services Administration, quite possibly the largest federal agency you never heard of. But we’re a neighbor and part of your…
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When Barack Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States on Jan. 20, I was thinking of Colonel Frank Christmas. Colonel Christmas, an African-American veteran who had fought for his country through two wars, mostly in segregated units, was the oldest member of a 1961 class of newly-sworn-in Foreign Service…
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Gaza 2009. A scene of almost incalculable tragedy. Body count: Some 1,300 Palestinians, 13 Israelis. On one side of the border massive death, brutal destruction and unceasing terror rain down from the skies on a civilian population with nowhere to flee for safety. Untold misery and despair on the ground for men, women, and children…
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It was cold up in D.C. yesterday. Yet I felt a certain warmth radiating from my television set. Is it possible that the inauguration of a president could change our spirits from being in a winter of despair to seeing a spring with hope? It all depends. If we are talking about these United States…
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Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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It’s Jan. 20, 2009. We’d be celebrating today no matter who was taking over mainly because of the fact that the other guy would be on his way out the door. Maybe I’m not being entirely original in thinking and saying that, but it’s true. That out of the way …
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Take Back the Night, an annual student-directed rally uniting men and women against sexual violence, will be held Monday through Thursday, Jan. 19-22, at Eastern Mennonite University.
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Here is a list of events ongoing today in the Central Shenandoah Valley and Central Virginia. For a complete rundown of what is on the local events schedule, go to our Calendar of Events.
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Fifth District Congressman Tom Perriello has another committee assignment – to the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee. The committee has jurisdiction over veterans’ benefits, pensions, the VA hospital system and issues involved in the readjustment of service veterans to civilian life.
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The Blue Ridge Community College Students in Free Enterprise Team will travel to LaGonave, Haiti Jan. 18-24. Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, has been ravaged by four hurricanes this year that destroyed 60 percent of domestic crops and caused billions of dollars in damages.
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