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Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen Charles Nesbitt Wilson retired from the U.S. House of Representatives 10 years ago. But the liberal-minded rollicking rebel is only now getting the national fame he so richly deserves.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Wake Forest, George Washington and Maryland at home, Pittsburgh in a holiday tournament, Clemson and Liberty on the road. Kenny Brooks will play anybody anywhere anytime. “We’re no longer trying to win 22 games playing against nobody and don’t have a shot at an NCAA bid. We’re trying to get…
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Column by Bob Goodlatte With the holiday season fully upon us, and the rush to complete last-minute Christmas-present purchases under way, it is easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle, and in the process somehow lose sight of more important things.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] So there’s this study out there that seems to indicate that women think – well, if you ask them, they know – that they have to work harder at their jobs than men. Now, being a man who thinks himself that he has to work pretty hard, and over the…
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Column by David Cox “Support our troops!” If we learned anything from Vietnam, it’s that, regardless of what one thinks of a war, one can, should, and must support the men and women who fight it. And, let me add, their families. Those men and women, and their families, are going to need a lot…
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Story by Theresa Curry AGratefulSeason.com Every year about this time, the men and women of the Waynesboro Church of the Brethren fire up their ovens and disappear into a whirlwind of flour and sugar. They’re getting ready for the Church’s annual Craft and Cookie Bazaar Saturday, now in its fourteenth year. The event has become…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] We hear a lot of talk about common-sense government – but then we don’t see anything close to that being put into practice, by those who espouse the idea or otherwise. Here, to me, is common-sense government at work.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I’d heard so much about the guy from Scotland who makes his way to the Valley every year for the Book ‘Em book festival – but other than a passing hello, I had never spoken with Dirk Robertson until, as luck would have it, we were seated beside each other…
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Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall By Chris Graham and Patrick Hite The following is an excerpt from Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball at University Hall, which closed in 2006. The book was published in 2006…
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Column by David Cox Amid the ruckus over abusive driver fees, a budget shortfall, mental health care in light of the Tech murders, and other issues of the moment, larger questions get overlooked. Yet these are often the questions that underlie the issues that elections turn on.
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