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• Podcast | JMU, ‘Nova prepping for playoff showdown
  Top-seeded James Madison is hosting CAA rival Villanova Saturday in an I-AA quarterfinal playoff. The game is a rematch of sorts of the Dukes’ 23-19 win at ‘Nova in October that ended with Bosco Williams catching a 35-yard Hail Mary pass from Rodney Landers on the final play of the game to pull out the [...]
• Videocast | Residence Inn open for business in Waynesboro
  It’s a different kind of hotel, particularly in the Waynesboro market. The focus is on the extended-stay guest at the new Residence Inn by Marriott in Waynesboro’s West End. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting. Length: 2:32.
• Videocast | Food banks to ask state taxpayers for help
  The Federation of Virginia Food Banks is going to be asking the Virginia General Assembly for a million dollars in emergency aid to help them continue providing food to needy families hit hardest in the ongoing economic downturn. AFP editor Chris Graham reporting. Length: 3:22.
• Dem LG Race Notebook
  NO CAR TAX, REVISITED: Russell County is pushing back the deadline for its residents to pay their personal-property taxes 30 days. Board of Supervisors member Jon Bowerbank, a candidate for the 2009 Democratic Party lieutenant-governor nomination, backed the measure and is calling on other Virginia localities to follow suit. “In these difficult economic times, every little [...]
• Saxman, Leighty to host town hall in Staunton
  Staunton State Del. Chris Saxman will be cohosting a bipartisan town-hall meeting next week with former Mark Warner and Tim Kaine chief of staff Bill Leighty. The Dec. 11 meeting, open to the public, will be held at City Hall in Staunton and will begin at 6 p.m. Saxman, a Republican, and Leighty, a Democrat, worked together [...]
• The FlyLady | The power of a tune
  Did you ever get a tune caught in your head, and you couldn’t get rid of it? It plays over and over like a stuck record for those of you who are old enough to remember those. We have tunes like that stuck in our heads, too. They are those negative words that have been [...]
• The From-Heres vs. The Come-Heres
  From-Here or Come-Here? Sometimes you don’t even have to ask. You can tell by the accent, or lack of one. But that isn’t to say that people don’t care which one you are. It can make all the difference in the world, honestly. We “don’t care,” my friend Jim Nichols famously wrote in a letter to [...]
• Pay increase for city council?
  Waynesboro Mayor Tim Williams has proposed a pay increase for members of Waynesboro City Council. What do you think? Should city-council members be paid more? Should they be paid at all? Sound off.
• Deeds, McAuliffe or Moran?
  Three contenders for the Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination - Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. Only one can be the nominee. Who should it be? And a different question - who will it be?
• Groh, or no Groh?
  It appears at this point that at least one and maybe both Grohs will be back in Charlottesville next fall. Should they be? Or should the University of Virginia go in a new direction - either by forcing Mike Groh out as offensive coordinator or Al Groh out as head coach? What do you think?