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  • Snowball Arrests Make National News

    hburgnews

    Number of comments: 2

    Two JMU students were arrested by the Harrisonburg Police Department on Saturday.  Big deal, right?  But what’s making waves is what they were arrested for, and the charges they now face.Ryan Knight and Charles Gill, both 21, were arrested in the 1300 block of Devon Lane and charged with [...]

    Posted: February 09, 2010, 1:46pm EST
    by Jeremy Aldrich
  • Emergency Declared In Harrisonburg

    hburgnews

    City Manager Kurt Hodgen has officially declared a local emergency in Harrisonburg, due to the amount of snow we have already received, and additional accumulation expected today and tomorrow. The city just sent out this announcement:

    The declaration is the result of the two significant snowfalls of last week that the [...]

    Posted: February 09, 2010, 12:55pm EST
    by Brent Finnegan
  • The long view of "change"

    SLANTblog

    Sometimes, these days, it seems like mean habits die so slowly that we're standing stuck in the mud and there's no hope of change. The hyperventilating media have a way of making it appear true. So, when some of us get frustrated with the pace of' [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2010, 12:12pm EST
  • JMU Duke BBall Guard Arrested

    Yankee Philip

    Number of comments: 0

    Felony snowball throwing charges have been leveled against two JMU students for allegedly pelting a city plow and an undercover police car during Saturday's blizzard. Charles Gill and Ryan Knight, both 21, were nabbed by cops. According to police, the pair first targeted a city [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2010, 11:23am EST
    by Phil
  • Calling all home schoolers! Help save HB 926

    SWAC Girl

    Number of comments: 0
    Yesterday morning in the House Education committee, HB 926 was voted down on a 12-9 decision. The bill, patroned by Delegate Rob Bell (R-58, Charlottesville), would allow home schooled students to participate in public school sports, on the rational that they contribute equal financial support to the schools, they are [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2010, 10:59am EST
    by SWAC Girl
  • New Tools for Politics

    Blue Commonwealth

    We all know by now just how feckless and ineffectual the campaign of Martha Coakley was in trying to hold the U.S. Senate seat of Ted Kennedy for the Democrats in Massachusetts, but the way Scott Brown won that election hinges on much more than that.

    Brown's campaign bought Google ads [...]

    Posted: February 09, 2010, 10:48am EST
  • We need another Turnip Day

    We will RockDem

    Leading House Republicans raised the prospect Monday night that they might refuse to participate in President Obama's proposed health care summit if the White House chooses not to scrap the existing reform bills and start over.

    'Turnip Day' was a special session President Truman called in his acceptance speech [...]
    Posted: February 09, 2010, 9:54am EST

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