Crystal Graham: Time for a vacation
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Everyone around me is taking a vacation these days. It just doesn’t seem fair.
Search Results for women
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Kilgore, GOP reaching out to African-Americans
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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.
Pinehurst revisited
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Golf Things Considered column by John Rogers [email protected] The Pinehurst Trip is over, and after a week down there, it seems to me that there is something almost enchanted, at least in a golf sense, about Pinehurst. It’s a place of convergence, like the traffic circle just outside of the Village itself, and all roads…
Crystal Graham: There’s something different about Grandma
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There’s something different about my grandmother these days – and it’s a good thing for sure. I noticed it first on Christmas. She had a grin on her face from ear to ear.
Not invited to the party: Exclusion from debates another slap in the face to third parties
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The Top Story by Chris Graham Independent presidential candidate John Anderson was threatening to break down the door to the two-party system. The Illinois congressman was running strong in the national polls, which showed him with the support of as much as a fifth of the electorate in the summer of 1980. He also had…
Don’t dump the Veep: Local Republicans advise president to stay the course
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The Top Story by Chris Graham The talk that President Bush might want to look somewhere other than Number One Observatory Circle for a running mate for this fall’s election is just that, talk. “The streets of Washington’s political district are filled with rumors and scenarios where Cheney disappears from the GOP ticket. Yet if…
All’s quiet on the Waynesboro election front: If you didn’t know better, you’d think there was an election in a week – and there is
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The Top Story by Chris Graham DuBose Egleston makes no secret of the fact that he is running for the at-large seat on Waynesboro City Council. He sent out a brochure to city voters on Friday touting his candidacy. And he has signs up all over the city that do the same. He even has…
Circuit-court candidates debate privacy issue
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Story by Chris Graham Records on file at your local circuit-court clerk’s office include items that could be used by people with bad intentions to access … your life. The horror stories are out there – involving how identity thieves have accessed Social Security numbers and mother’s maiden names and copied signatures from records in…
Circuit-court clerk candidates speak out
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Story by Chris Graham The six candidates vying for the soon-to-be-open Waynesboro circuit-court clerk job agree on … just about everything. None would institute major changes in the way the office is being run; all would stress customer service as a top priority; and all hope the voters of Waynesboro turn out to the polls…
My friend, Ralphus
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham “I feel terrible,” I said, to no one in particular, except that Ralphus heard me. No matter. Because I did, you know, feel terrible. I had the flu, or so I thought. I mean, I probably did. I felt bad, and all. I had chills, and a fever…
