Former UVA QB headed to Oregon State
It has been a busy week for former UVA quarterback Peter Lalich. He was first dismissed from the football team, and he is now headed West.
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Former UVA QB headed to Oregon State
It has been a busy week for former UVA quarterback Peter Lalich. He was first dismissed from the football team, and he is now headed West.
Herskowitz resigns from Virginia Film Festival
The founder of the Virginia Film Society and the festival’s director for more than a decade heads to Oregon
McCain’s End Run Around the Media
McCain campaign spokesperson Brian Rogers recently said “We’re running a campaign to win. And we’re not too concerned about what the media filter tries to say about it.” Rogers was responding to accusations that the campaign was sinking to new lows with its fabrications about earmarks, bridges to nowhere, and lipstick-wearing pigs.
But What About the “Ownership Society”?
So a dominant right-wing meme about the mortgage crisis seems to be that it was caused by the 1977 Community Reinvestment Act, intended to help minorities achieve home ownership. Apparently this load of bunk has been making the rounds for many months now and was recently amplified by the likes of Neil Cavuto and other talking heads on Fox News.
John McCain ahead in Virginia according to Mason-Dixon poll
Today it’s John McCain’s turn. The latest TODAY Show/NBC/Mason-Dixon poll has McCain ahead by three points in Virginia, 47 to 44 percent.
Keep it simple, sustainable
Know what? If you paint the concrete floor of a bus maintenance garage white, it will encourage workers to keep it clean. And you know what else? If you line the hallways of a school with vertical wood planks interspersed with full-length mirrors, it will make students feel like they’re walking in the woods.
$700 Billion: That’s a Lotta Food Stamps!
Republicans’ fixation on welfare never ceases to amaze me. Many times throughout this campaign season, I have heard the familiar refrain of “I won’t vote for a Democrat because I don’t want my taxes going to some lazy bum who refuses to work”
Festival of the Book luncheons announced
The 15th Annual Festival of the Book revealed the list of visiting authors featured in this year’s fair happening from March 18 to 22, 2009.