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...Where did the idea come from? Did you have a particular pitcher in mind? Or were you more interested in a celebrity falling from grace? A few years ago, before Foot Fist Way, I moved out of L.A. and back to Virginia and I started bartending and substitute teaching. My first day of teaching, I suddenly had all these questions about whether I was giving up on my dream, and I started introducing myself on the first day of class and telling these ninth-graders that this wasn't my final stop, that I was just doing this to save...
Valentine's Freebie. What better state to spend Valentine's Day than Virginia, whose state slogan declares it "for lovers?" Virginia is marking the 40th anniversary of its Lovers campaign by giving away 40 free trips over 40 weeks. One person per week will win a Virginia getaway - two- to seven-night trips that include listening to music in the Blue Ridge mountains, touring a winery in Williamsburg or kayaking in the Chesapeake Bay. Log on to the the website to enter...
...roads, walking patrols, and going on missions with our troopers." (Mellinger's 33-month Iraq tour was punctuated by 27 roadside bombings, including two that destroyed his vehicle, although he managed to escape injury.) Mellinger now serves as the Command Sergeant Major, the senior enlisted man in the Virginia headquarters of the Army Materiel Command, trying to shrink what he calls the "flash-to-bang time" between recognizing what soldiers need and getting it to them...
...also knows that Congress has to act quickly, especially with another round of dismal economic and unemployment numbers coming out Friday. After spending much of his first two weeks in office reaching out to Republicans, Obama showed a tougher side on Thursday, telling House Democrats at a retreat in Virginia that Republicans who have been pushing amendments to add more and more tax cuts to the legislation want to return "to the same policies that for the last eight years doubled the national debt and threw our economy into a tailspin." His growing frustration with the stalemate was echoed...
...African-American history taught enough in our schools? David Veigel, VIRGINIA BEACH...