Share
Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham Where this hubbub over Don Imus turned for me was last night watching Al Sharpton, of all people, calling for “regulations” regarding the use of the public airwaves to be enforced to expediate Imus’ ouster from his daily radio show. Now, and I want to make this clear,…
Share
Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It’s mid-morning at my workplace, and my office is quiet except for a Johnny Tillotson – anyone remember him? – “early hits” album playing softly in the background. OK, his songs were schmaltzy, but on this Valentine’s Day, they work for me. Eastern Mennonite University is officially closed for…
Share
Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen It was one of those gloomy, grey, depressing midwinter days. I needed sunshine and laughter. Maybe a movie, maybe a light romantic comedy. I check the newspaper. How about “Because I Said So?” Mandy Moore, Diane Keaton. Sounds like just the thing to lift up my sagging…
Share
Bishop’s Mantle column by Jim Bishop It wasn’t my idea of the best start on the new year. Here I was, feeling on edge on the edge of the examining table in the Rockingham Memorial Hospital Emergency Room. At 4:30 a.m. With a stabbing pain in the right area of my chest. My blood pressure…
Share
Carly at the Movies column by Carl Larsen I’m not a snob. I love the glitter, the production values, and the big-star casts of major Hollywood productions as much as any other movie-obsessed slob. But in 2006, Hollywood let me down.
Share
The Top Story by Chris Graham It hasn’t been that long since some in the punditry and the blogosphere were speculating aloud about how Republican victories in the race for the White House and in Congress in 2004 might be signaling the dawn of a GOP century. And it seems that now, instead of…
Share
The Top Story by Chris Graham It’s politics to some people – the debate over a proposed amendment to the Virginia Constitution that would prohibit gays and lesbians from being able to enter into a state-recognized marriage or civil union. For those whose lives would be impacted directly by the much-talked-about change to the…
Share
The Top Story by Chris Graham A group of former University of Virginia football teammates of U.S. Sen. George Allen alleges that the former quarterback regularly used the n-word to refer to African-Americans. A second group of the Republican’s former teammates has stepped up to say that this is not true. Meanwhile, the state’s…
Share
The Top Story by Chris Graham The conventional wisdom is that the military vote and veteran vote both tend to lean strongly in the Republican direction – but Democratic Party Senate nominee Jim Webb, a Vietnam War veteran and former Reagan administration Navy secretary, might just be able to turn the conventional wisdom on…
Share
Story by Chris Graham A large video screen in the John Paul Jones Arena replayed scenes from a ballyhooed “live sex celebration” that WWE heavyweight champion Edge and women’s champion Lita had taken part in several months earlier. And that was early in the “Monday Night Raw” show that was broadcast live on national television…
Pitch in and help AFP continue to deliver news to the Valley, Central Virginia and beyond.