Brent Finnegan -- November 3rd, 2009
Rockingham County went for the straight Republican ticket. No surprises there. After all, the county overwhelmingly voted for Gilmore over Warner last November.
But how did the city go so Republican? As John Elledge put it, “Obama’s Stone Spring precinct gives Lohr 63-37.” Remember this? What happened? Your best guesses below . . .
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Friendly City Food Co-Op, Harrisonburg’s consumer-owned grocery, invites the community to come see its new destination for natural, organic and locally-produced products at the store’s grand opening 11 a.m.-5 p.m. July 9 at 150 East Wolfe Street. A ribbon-cutting ceremony will take place at 11 a.m. with Virginia Commissioner of Agriculture Matt Lohr, Harrisonburg Mayor [...]
HARRISONBURG, VA — Friendly City Food Co-op, slated to open this month in Harrisonburg, Va., has become the newest member of the National Cooperative Grocers Association (NCGA), a business services cooperative serving 120 consumer-owned food co-ops nationwide. NCGA helps unify food co-ops in order to optimize operational and marketing resources, strengthen purchasing power, and ultimately [...]
May 2: Harrisonburg was honored when the League of American Bicyclists announced the latest round of Bicycle Friendly Community (BFC) designations over the weekend to kick off May as National Bike Month. Out of the 45 new applicants that the program received, 21 communities received awards. Harrisonburg was given a bronze‐level Bicycle Friendly Community designation. [...]
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I don’t think $38K is exceptionally high coming out of a four year college.
Most any Chemistry or Physics major is going to be making more than that. I’m not sure about “life sciences”. Probably depends a lot if you are the traditional kind studying live/dead animals ( large scale ) or the newer ones dealing on a DNA level. Business majors? Vastly overpaid. English majors? Majority are teachers anyway. And most people non-teachers are working more way than 200 days for their salary.
Joe,
You were a failure at running a small city. You control exactly nothing. Don’t be a sore loser.
xoxo,
eso
Joe, to be accurate, the F16s in Virginia are Air Reserve resources…Langley is the first completely deployed wing of F22s.
“And most people non-teachers are working more way than 200 days for their salary.”
failure at making a sentence.
There has to be a name for the ability to respond earnestly to being mocked.