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          <title>3 up 3 down</title>
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3 up 3 down for the week           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:41 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Everybody wants to have a home</title>
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I looked out my office window, and there it was in a backyard across the street: a magnificent tree house. It has been built around the trunk of a large, leafy tree, and has a front porch.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Jonah Kaine rides again</title>
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Readying to slink off into the night, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine continues to bustle about the business of securing future employment. He has signed on for a part-time teaching gig at the University of Richmond to be coupled with his work as Democratic National Committee chairman.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Tip of the cap to TNV, city for successful shoe drive</title>
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At the conclusion of a successful effort to provide shoes (5,500 pairs were collected) for the widows in Kenya, Africa, I would like to express on behalf of Summit Square sponsors of the shoe collection effort, our thanks to the staff of The News Virginian. Their excellent work helped to make this collection effort one to be remembered.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Retailers need to do their part to prevent flu&#8217;s spread</title>
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Is it possible that with all the publicity about the flu season this year being doubly bad I am the only one concerned with not sharing the virus with others?           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Write&#45;in process difficult, confusing</title>
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After casting my vote Tuesday, I told a worker there was going to be a lot of confusion concerning the write-in votes. First of all, &#8220;TYPE IN&#8221; would have been a more appropriate description of what you would find upon entering the voting booth. No wonder some voters actually wrote on the screen itself, as reported in Thursday&#8217;s newspaper (&#8220;Write-ins wrangled&#8221;).           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:01:06 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Life is not a video game</title>
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What&#8217;s going on that at least once a week there&#8217;s news of young people beating, sexually abusing or killing their fellow youngsters? Have parents lost control of their children because they tried to make life easier for them? Or is something else going on?
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>More to do on treasurer</title>
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Dispensing with the obvious, that being the necessity of replacing Waynesboro&#8217;s treasurer, Stephanie Beverage soon must begin with something ostensibly more complex: figuring out how to keep the state auditor off her back. As she attempts this, the City Council might consider how to right the office permanently.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:01:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Real work starts now</title>
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Having initiated his campaign for governor shortly after authoring a famous 1989 thesis, Robert F. McDonnell has concluded the facile phase of his quest. Now he learns whether he&#8217;ll suffer the torment of Gilgamesh, watching the plant of life swallowed by the devilish details of running a state stuck in a mire of red and sinking deeper.
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          <pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>An election sans Obama</title>
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Meteorologists, correct on occasion, say conditions will be favorable today for voters to venture from their homes and select mostly from guys with perfect hair as representatives to serve for the next four years. Here in the central Shenandoah Valley, it will be partly cloudy with highs near 60. For President Barack Obama looking on from the capital, it might be decidedly chillier. If it&#8217;s fall, leaves and the electorate&#8217;s mood must be changing.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Straight from the baby&#8217;s mouth</title>
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The Walt Disney Co. is offering parents who bought Baby Einstein videos for their youngsters a refund because, as it turns out, moms and dads can&#8217;t park Junior&#8217;s high chair in front of the flat screen and return an hour later to find him piecing together the great American novel from leftover alphabet soup. 
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          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>An election of intrigue</title>
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Lovers of politics are rare souls in an era when politicians in the mind&#8217;s eye of the public lurk somewhere near the river bottom with old tires, lawyers, mercury, journalists and other foul stuff. Still, the election in two days ought at least to get points &#8211; and, hopefully, turnout &#8212; for intrigue.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>3 Up, 3 Down</title>
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This week&#8217;s opinion marketplace           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:01:13 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Observing changes in the church</title>
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I admit to the guilty pleasure of watching from the sidelines the unfolding Catholic-Anglican situation. The Vatican has sent an invitation to conservative Anglicans (Episcopalians) who don&#8217;t approve of women&#8217;s ordination, gay rights in any form and liberal political or social ideas to come over to Rome. This includes married Episcopalian priests. I have no dog in this particular fight, but I admit I am curious to see what will happen.            ]]></description>
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          <title>Lower health care costs attainable</title>
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Virginians with health insurance who review their statements often look at the bottom line and ask, &#8220;How much?&#8221;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:13:51 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Opting for freedom</title>
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James Madison University&#8217;s leveling of charges against two student journalists raises troubling concerns over press freedom.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:11:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>GRAVES: Taxpayer mney dictates reductions</title>
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About 175 executives at seven U.S. corporations will receive reduced compensation, according to the Wall Street Journal. Immediately, this sparked complaints that the government is dictating executive pay.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:09:38 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Write&#45;in Kent has stuff needed for city treasurer</title>
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While there are several candidates running for the office of Waynesboro city treasurer, I believe Terry Kent is the best choice. As a former employee of the Treasurer&#8217;s Office, I feel Terry has the background, skills and ability to correct the problems in the office and bring it back to credible standards and accounting procedures, as it should be.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Beverage right pick for treasurer post</title>
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I am writing to endorse Stephanie Beverage for city treasurer of Waynesboro. While Sandra Dixon is a fine person and has worked hard to do her job, she has had four years to improve the operations of the Treasurer&#8217;s Office and has failed to do so, according to audit reports and complaints from citizens. It is vital that this office can be run in an efficient and organized manner.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:46 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Deeds is Virginia&#8217;s best hope for next governor</title>
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Apparently, this election comes down to what independent and Democratic voters want Virginia to do for the next four years. The last debate for governor allowed Virginians to see and hear the differences between the candidates. Clearly, it is state Sen. R. Creigh Deed&#8217;s long-standing commitment to values Virginians share, his hard work and his vision for Virginia that is needed.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:35 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Write&#45;ins best bets for troubled treasurer job</title>
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Elections give aspiring people who seek public service the opportunity, if supported by public opinion, the privilege to serve. There is no greater comfort or higher honor than being elected by one&#8217;s constituents to be their representative.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:29 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Caldwell has staying power as city sheriff</title>
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Few of the choices on ballots next week will be more clear-cut than the one for Staunton sheriff. Something of an authority on this is the fellow challenging incumbent Alex Caldwell Jr. for the job.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cline earns return trip</title>
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Ben Cline was born on the plains, in Stillwater, Okla., where strong values are as rich as the crude that pulses underground in that part of the world, and he was raised in Rockbridge County, where tradition runs as thick as the woods in Jefferson National Forest.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:01:14 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Serba for treasurer</title>
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None of the options especially appeals, but write-in Jim Serba is the best of the four candidates for treasurer.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 07:50:01 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Purloined rack creates a stir</title>
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Last week&#8217;s column, in which I described in vivid detail the theft of one our newspaper racks, my comically heroic efforts to recover it from behind a grocery store and the debilitating back injury I suffered while loading its remains onto a truck, drew much sympathy from readers.            ]]></description>
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          <title>McDonnell gets the nod</title>
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An unfortunate son, either of Philadelphia or Richmond, will stride into Timothy M. Kaine&#8217;s shortening shadow in January and perhaps thereafter wonder who won in November. Rumblings emanating from the capital, previously and painfully accurate, are that Virginia will begin the year staring across a budget canyon of $3 billion. Hell to the chief.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:40 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Cline is the right pick in the 24th District</title>
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I have recently read in the paper letters in support of different candidates. I would like to express my support for Del. Ben Cline in the 24th District. For seven years now, Ben has represented us well in Richmond.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:03 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Mainstream media faltering in duty</title>
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Liberty requires a public be properly informed. However, data show low Neilson ratings on &#8220;traditional&#8221; news networks and a declining newspaper readership.

I no longer watch news on ABC, CNN, CBS, MSNBC or NBC. I no longer look for news from newspapers, other than local news. I now watch Fox and get my news from the Internet.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Treasurer write&#45;in Kent a &#8216;bright light&#8217;</title>
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While it&#8217;s easier to just check off a candidate listed on the ballot for Nov. 3, this year I encourage you write in the name Terry Kent for treasurer of the City of Waynesboro. If there has ever been a time where every penny counts and must be accounted for, Terry Kent will add some much-needed polish and thoroughness to this important position.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:58 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>The poseurs we created</title>
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I wondered why Robert F. McDonnell, who is Roman Catholic and had been educated mostly in Catholic schools, chose Regent University, founded by Pat Robertson, for his degrees in public policy and law. It was an interesting choice not only because it was a departure from his religious tradition and past school choices but because it potentially creates problems for him as he tries to position himself as a centrist when running for governor.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:45 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Kent is the fix for treasurer</title>
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Terry Kent will be an excellent treasurer for the City of Waynesboro. We have known him for many years and he is a well-respected, honest and conscientious man. He is well-read and has the background for financial matters for this important department of our city government.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:20 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Kent&#8217;s character, skills right</title>
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Terry Kent is one of the most upstanding men I&#8217;ve ever met. His integrity and loyalty are undeniable.           ]]></description>
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Seizing lines to which her party sticks, Jody M. Wagner embodies a lost year for Democrats. The transportation plan championed by gubernatorial frontman Robert F. McDonnell and his pal Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling won&#8217;t work, she says, and worse (horrors!), it will steal money from classrooms and force teachers into soup kitchens.           ]]></description>
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I am presently serving as the store manager of Movie Gallery in Spanish Fort, Ala., after being a lifelong citizen of Waynesboro.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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Over the past 13 years, Del. Steve Landes has fought tirelessly to protect the interests of the Shenandoah Valley. Right now the Commonwealth of Virginia is at an important crossroads. We need someone in Richmond who is an experienced leader, who has consistently proved that he can get things done.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:48 EST</pubDate>
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Only Dostoevsky&#8217;s Karmazovs and middle-aged married couples know how to fight like this. To hear Ken Cuccinelli tell it, Steve Shannon is too doltish to be attorney general. To hear Shannon tell it, Cuccinelli is too rabidly red for the job. Pass the pestle, Mitya, and take out the trash.
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          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:26 EST</pubDate>
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Steve Landes&#8217; thirteen years in the House of Delegates have served him well enough, but they have not done the same for us in the 25th District. In a recent debate with his opponent, Greg Marrow, Landes failed to offer concrete examples of anything he had done to help us. On his Web site, I found 15 pieces of legislation he had sponsored. For the most part, they reflect his fondness for cleaning-up, such as repealing an obsolete section of a bill concerning the &#8220;transportation of troops by railroad,&#8221; or pensions paid to &#8220;widows and maiden or widowed daughters of Confederate veterans.&#8221; These are not the sort of actions that foster a living wage or fix the bridges and roads in the Shenandoah Valley or meet any of our needs. To be honest, they appear frivolous.           ]]></description>
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The country is in a mess and Virginia needs all the help it can get; help such as Del. Ben Cline has provided for the past seven years.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:01:02 EST</pubDate>
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Green is a delightful color, so much so that Democrats are positively blinded by it. Mantras have shifted slightly with the winds, but not the hues of beloved modifiers. Green energy was the thing when gas prices gushed past $4 a gallon. Now that job losses persist amid talk of recovery, the words &#8220;green jobs&#8221; jump from Democrats&#8217; lips with reflexive regularity.&nbsp; Tap a Democrat&#8217;s knee and he or she involuntarily shouts, &#8220;Green jobs!&#8221;           ]]></description>
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I suggested in a previous column that blacks, particularly the older and religious conservative ones, should endorse equal rights for members of the gay and lesbian community. A number of them took offense when gay and lesbian demonstrators used tactics that blacks used during the civil rights movement. Gay and lesbian marchers sang songs and carried placards with wording that blacks used when demonstrating and demanding equal rights back in the 1960s and &#8217;70s.           ]]></description>
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In two weeks, not only will we be voting for governor and other state positions, but a little closer to home is the vote for Waynesboro city treasurer. As you have probably read in this newspaper (&#8220;Treasurer again gets failing grades,&#8221; Sept. 30), there have been quite a number of poor audit reports from the state. Lost revenue, late fees, poor accounting practices, etc., have caused chaos in the city building.&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:01:56 EST</pubDate>
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The preternaturally bland Steve Landes views his political career as that of a slogger trudging through legislative thickets whittling away tax and regulatory weeds. Accountants and morticians are peppier. Regardless then of the results of next month&#8217;s election, Greg Marrow has accomplished something: The state House District 25 incumbent is riled and ready to rumble. This is Landes as few have seen him.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 00:01:25 EST</pubDate>
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Since the election of President Barack Obama (the people&#8217;s choice), I have experienced a breakdown in our democratic society. We have gone from a country moving forward to a country that is moving backward into the past using scare tactics and untruths. It is time to start electing representatives who see us all as one: Americans! And that is why I support Democrat Jeff Price in his campaign for state House District 24.           ]]></description>
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There is one simple reason Steve Landes deserves our vote in November. Steve has faithfully represented the 25th District and always had an open door, even when he did not have a challenger.           ]]></description>
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So the deal with the frog in the cauldron is that the poor fellow doesn&#8217;t notice the water getting warmer because the change is gradual rather than sudden. This does not explain why some in Waynesboro can feel the temperature rising but sit contentedly while the water bubbles.           ]]></description>
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          <title>Stealing paper racks a bad idea</title>
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After someone stole one of our newspaper racks and left its dented carcass behind a grocery store, I compiled a list of the top 10 reasons not to steal a newspaper rack and leave its dented carcass behind a grocery store in an effort to discourage future crimes of this nature. 
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In a Sept. 26 story titled &#8220;Landes demands Marrow clarify,&#8221; I found myself in total disbelief when I read that Democratic House District 25 challenger Greg Marrow considers himself a &#8220;fiscal conservative&#8221; and &#8220;does not support tax increases.&#8221;&nbsp;            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:01:39 EST</pubDate>
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Another campaign, mercifully, is edging toward fruition only to give way to another, a process less like the changing of the seasons, which are a delight, and more like modern multimedia, which are edging toward delirium, like a maze of slot machines in some cheap Vegas casino, all flashing lights and buttons but no winners. One campaign ends and another begins, the lines fade to nonexistence, so the ends and beginnings are lost and forgotten, and power passes from one party to the next and back again, and the people who still play do so in the role of suckers, pulling levers in vain hope of hitting a jackpot on a machine rigged never to pay a dime.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:01:13 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 00:01:33 EST</pubDate>
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As a person who grew up with shelter dogs in my home, being included as part of our family, I must admit that I&#8217;ve never understood the concept of the &#8220;outside dog.&#8221; Seeing a perpetually chained or penned so-called &#8220;outside&#8221; or &#8220;backyard&#8221; dog has always evoked a great sadness and bafflement in me.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:54 EST</pubDate>
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Every once in awhile I disagree with some who usually think as I do. Last Friday, I found myself disagreeing with President Barack Obama and with words spoken years ago by newly confirmed and seated U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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Fourth-graders are not progressing in their capacity to perform rudimentary arithmetic, mirroring a malady that long has afflicted Democrats. The results for schoolkids came in Wednesday from federally funded achievement tests, and for Democrats a day earlier with the passage of a Senate Finance Committee health care bill to the sound of triumphant cries among the vacuous left.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:19 EST</pubDate>
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Things to ponder:

n If you believe President Barack Obama could fulfill all of his campaign promises, you are delusional. Only Jesus Christ could have done that and only with the help of all 12 disciples.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:01:08 EST</pubDate>
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Really? Now, Del. Landes?

Steve Landes clearly has noticed that he has a challenger in the House District 25 race, which presumably has something to do with the bill he announced Monday.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:01:35 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Deeds drag for Dems</title>
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Prospects for a Republican sweep in the state&#8217;s marquee races brighten almost by the minute as Democrats struggle against drags at the top of the state and national parties. R. Creigh Deeds and President Barack Obama look like a dating service mismatch, each racing for the door as though fleeing an unwanted goodnight kiss.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:01:49 EST</pubDate>
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Kimberly Watters gazes at PowerPoint images depicting her former city&#8217;s regeneration, and she is stirred to a kind of sunniness seen here with ecliptical irregularity, which is to say, not often. &#8220;It happened there,&#8221; Watters says, &#8220;it can happen here.&#8221;           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:44 EST</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve got a new plan. And if this were a movie, and you were in the movie and I explained my new plan, you would say, &#8220;That&#8217;s just crazy enough to work.&#8221; Of course, this isn&#8217;t a movie and the plan will never work, but that won&#8217;t stop me from explaining it to you. 
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          <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:21 EST</pubDate>
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Soon, the taxpayers living in Waynesboro will go to the polls and cast their votes for a city treasurer, when deciding not to vote should be easy.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:15 EST</pubDate>
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During the recent debate sponsored by The News Virginian between Del. Steve Landes, R-Weyers Cave, and challenger Greg Marrow, D-McGaheysville, Marrow referred to the $125-million stimulus that was not taken by Virginia for extended unemployment benefits as &#8220;free money&#8221; and he said it has gone onto other states.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:09 EST</pubDate>
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          <title>Vick&#8217;s crimes should have kept him off field for good</title>
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Michael Vick was a multimillionaire football player who wasted his fortune and got into dogfighting.
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          <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 00:01:05 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:01:44 EST</pubDate>
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My father claimed that in medical school he was taught, &#8220;Half of what we tell you is wrong; we just don&#8217;t know which half.&#8221; 

I have wondered if he acquired that saying in medical school or somewhere else because I have heard it from many sources. If medical schools actually make this assumption, I would applaud their humility and honesty. A lot of doctors probably forget it if indeed they ever heard it in the first place, but at least it is a part of medical lore &#8212; which is more than I can say for any branch of the Christian church.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 00:01:29 EST</pubDate>
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Two megacelebrities recently were dealt a dose of reality. First, world renown director and filmmaker Roman Polanski was arrested on a 32-year-old warrant and then CBS late-night TV host David Letterman announced he was being blackmailed because of past sexual affairs with staff members.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:01:57 EST</pubDate>
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Amid the gathering malaise of the post-euphoria era of Barack Obama&#8217;s presidency, trouble is afoot in Afghanistan. The commander of allied forces there wants more troops. Obama is disinclined to give them. Listen closely and one can hear echoes of the Soviet Union. Failure knocks and America opens the door.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:01:03 EST</pubDate>
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Out come the defenders of Waynesboro&#8217;s treasurer candidates and in strides another runner, all while a puddle of muddle remains over who ought to manage the city&#8217;s books.           ]]></description>
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Let me see now: Our government wants to manage our health care. Take a look at other programs managed by government:           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 00:01:49 EST</pubDate>
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This letter is to ask that you continue to support Sandra &#8220;Sandee&#8221; Dixon for treasurer of Waynesboro. Sandee is a hard-working honest person who has taken on a very large and important job. I am sure that it takes a long time to learn all that makes this job complete, and that training never stops.           ]]></description>
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A man reared on a hog and cattle farm in Bath County, R. Creigh Deeds, and by implication, those weighing whether to side with him, confront a hound dog&#8217;s quandary, this one over what to do if the thing chased is caught.            ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Here&#8217;s the dilemma Waynesboro voters face: A month from today, they&#8217;ll vote for treasurer. Sophie&#8217;s choice was less murky.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:01:23 EST</pubDate>
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If Obama were white, would they still hate him? Of course they would, the people who oppose his policies.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:02:22 EST</pubDate>
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Francis Chester, a Churchville lawyer and sheep farmer, returned to a favorite place this week.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 00:00:31 EST</pubDate>
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Squeezing time between his gig as Democratic National Committee chairman and the day job to which voters elected him, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine ambled into town Thursday under the comic auspices of kicking off a sales tax holiday.            ]]></description>
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I&#8217;ve written how the election of President Barack Obama caused an uptick in gun ownership and open racism.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 01:48:06 EST</pubDate>
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Having messed with the bulls and gotten the udders, dairy farmers trudge now buckets and stools in hand to the government barn where taxpayers stand waiting to be milked again.           ]]></description>
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Voters will have to fix the problem in the Waynesboro Treasurer&#8217;s Office.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 00:00:45 EST</pubDate>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 13:22:26 EST</pubDate>
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Few among elections&#8217; rituals are more tiresome than the one most central, that of what kids today might call political poseurs metaphorically galloping on ivory-white steeds to pluck the rest of us from the economic hellfires.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:16:51 EST</pubDate>
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It was the first day of autumn &#8212; the early evening, actually &#8212; when I was called home to investigate a disturbance. 

I never saw it coming. We were putting the finishing touches on another edition of the newspaper &#8212; yep, we still make &#8217;em &#8212; and I could almost feel the warm familial greeting and taste the ice-cold beverage that I was sure awaited me at my aluminum-sided castle. 

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          <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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Cigarettes are foul things that send millions of their puffing and huffing legions to ghastly deaths, so tax tobacco to the hilt, rake in extra revenues and compel smokers by brute levying force to go smokeless. This is the flawed logic that fueled another addiction, that of states to cigarette taxes. Politicians, oblivious to contradiction and denouement, now wear a junkie&#8217;s daze, pining for their fix of smoke cash as it dwindles. So here comes Greg Marrow, asking for a light.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:01:18 EST</pubDate>
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The student volunteered to be the first one to give her presentation in class. It included telling us a lot about her life.&nbsp; 

She comes from a Latino immigrant family and is the first to go to college. The hopes of a lot of people are riding on her, and she has more than met the challenge.            ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:01:22 EST</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve discovered during my years of writing columns that if you want a heated debate in our part of the Valley, any of four subjects will bring out opinions. The four subjects are race, the Confederate flag, guns and dogs. If I had to rank them in order of feedback, I&#8217;d say race and guns are tied for No. 1, followed by the Rebel flag with dogs placing fourth. A particular week&#8217;s news can sway whether race or guns stirs the anger pot the most.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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Those seeking a measure of the acrimony pervading the politics of the moment can find a heaping helping in the House District 25 race, where incumbent Republican Steve Landes and Democratic challenger Greg Marrow have taken to sniping over everything from White House e-mails to, of course, the economy. That will be the background noise tonight, when the candidates meet in The News Virginian District 25 Debate at the Kate Collins Middle School Auditorium in Waynesboro.
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          <pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:01:12 EST</pubDate>
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Replicating his great awakening in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, R. Creigh Deeds has arisen from slumber in his run for Richmond against Republican Robert F. McDonnell. In so doing, he&#8217;s demonstrated that a position in which he&#8217;d once appeared only casually interested he wants at almost any price. Honesty is precious, but like an heirloom for a family in sudden financial straits, it&#8217;s among the first things to go when a politician sees within grasp the seat he covets.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:01:50 EST</pubDate>
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Falsehoods cling to Waynesboro like cobwebs in the corners of vacant buildings. Here&#8217;s one: so-called progressives are alone in thinking of downtown renewal and in their willingness to drive it. Here&#8217;s another: to be conservative is to shun a part for government in growth. Absolutes of this sort are easily enough shattered by the power of a few brain cells, but let&#8217;s wade deeper.
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A lot of British men are going to brow bars to get threaded. Yeah, that&#8217;s what I thought, too, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that at all.

According to a recent story from Reuters news service, more of our cousins across the pond are having their eyebrows professionally groomed &#8212; some during men-only &#8220;guybrow&#8221; nights &#8212; using a technique called threading.            ]]></description>
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The generation gap between my students and me continues to grow although I seldom think about it. Sometimes, however, I am given not very subtle reminders.            ]]></description>
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This week&#8217;s opinion marketplace           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:01:34 EST</pubDate>
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Pittsburgh is an anthropomorphism, the chain smoker with the hacking cough and the Swiss cheese lungs who wonders how it all turned out this way.           ]]></description>
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Thanks, Mr. Wilson, and boos to Mr. West and Ms. Williams. In the words of comic strip character Dennis of &#8220;Dennis The Menace,&#8221; I say &#8220;Thanks, Mr. Wilson.&#8221; I&#8217;m not referring to Dennis&#8217; neighbor but Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C. The boos are directed toward tennis star Serena Williams and hip hop singer and producer Kanye West.           ]]></description>
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Something still stinks

Three weeks ago Friday, The News Virginian reported on the sorry, smelly state of things in the Waynesboro High School football locker room. The ventilation in the place is so bad urinal cakes are hung inside the joint to ward off the stench.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:01:52 EST</pubDate>
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Tingles are racing up legs in that bristling sphere known as the left, this time over Virginia gubernatorial candidate Robert F. McDonnell&#8217;s utterance of the queen mother of dirty words. The dread term spilled from the same mouth McDonnell kisses his wife with during a radio interview last week. Fudge.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:01:18 EST</pubDate>
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Too many books, too little time,&#8221; goes the saying. Well, Virginia inmates may have plenty of time &#8212; but now they have too few books.           ]]></description>
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Invective is a cheap commodity in politics, and so locals are buying the stuff by the barrel amid the gusher of controversy over Steve Landes drawing a thick black line from the White House to Soviet reds and Nazi fascists.            ]]></description>
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Note: Inspired by President Barack Obama&#8217;s recent speech to the nation&#8217;s school children, columnist Scott Hollifield decided to give his own back-to-school address. So far, no schools have accepted his offer and all media outlets have ignored him, but that did not stop him from releasing this transcript of his prepared remarks in an effort to stave off criticism and outrage that has not yet materialized.            ]]></description>
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Things to ponder or wonder about:

n President Barack Obama is the best campaign person ever. I&#8217;ll bet he could get a dog elected as dog catcher or Paris Hilton as spokeswoman for abstinence.

n The more The News Virginian columnist Nelson Graves yells he&#8217;s not a racist, the more his own words scream that he is.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:01:30 EST</pubDate>
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I am writing to urge voters in Amherst to re-elect Ben Cline to the House of Delegates this fall. On issues important to us, Ben has delivered for Amherst time and time again. He listens to his constituents and takes our concerns to Richmond.           ]]></description>
          <pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:01:28 EST</pubDate>
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As citizens of this great state and country, we have this November a tremendous opportunity. 

The Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, our third president, was the author of the Declaration of Independence. The Virginian, James Madison, our fourth president, is referred to as the &#8220;Father of the Constitution&#8221; for his extensive contributions to that document. Many other Virginians were essential contributors to this great nation. They risked their lives as well as their possessions in the process.            ]]></description>
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          <title>3 Up, 3 Down</title>
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This week&#8217;s opinion marketplace           ]]></description>
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          <title>Rhetoric is red, liberty is blue</title>
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Invective is a cheap commodity in politics, and so locals are buying the stuff by the barrel amid the gusher of controversy over Steve Landes drawing a thick black line from the White House to Soviet reds and Nazi fascists. 
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