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THE TOP STORY: Trading post INSIDE ... Where does Allen stand in '08 race? By Chris Graham/AFP One question being asked by those around the politics watercooler has to do with George Allen's chances at winning the 2008 Republican Party presidential nomination. With two of his main rivals for the nomination - Arizona Sen. John McCain and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist - each playing key roles in the resolution of The Great 2005 Judicial Filibuster Debate, one could say that the Virginia senator's stock would be expected to take a bearish tumble. IN FOCUS: A taxing issue for downtown property owners By Chris Graham/AFP The downtown-revitalization effort in Marion in Southwest Virginia got a shot in the arm from the mid-1990s decision of property owners in the central-business district to pay part of the freight themselves. "It wasn't the easiest thing in the world to convince people to want to do, of course," said Ken Heath, the executive director of the Marion Downtown Revitalization Association ... NOTES FROM THE PRESS: Politics notebook By Chris Graham/AFP Twenty-six legislators - 25 Republicans and one Republican-leaning independent - received perfect scores on their Family Foundation Action 2004-2005 General Assembly report cards. "A perfect score on the report card demonstrates to Virginia families a commitment to the principles upon which our Commonwealth stands," said Victoria Cobb, president of The Family Foundation Action. EYE ON VIRGINIA: More mudslinging in LG primary battle By Chris Graham/AFP The Sean Connaughton for lieutenant governor campaign feels that it is being bullied by rival Bill Bolling into silence regarding a Washington Examiner op-ed that raised issue with the state senator's affiliation with an insurance company that went out of business in a cloud of suspicion. The Bolling campaign, for its part, says that the Connaughton camp's efforts to make an issue of the op-ed ... EYE ON THE VALLEY: One primary ... or the other By Chris Graham/AFP Yes, Virginia voters. You really are limited to voting in one party primary or the other. "No person shall vote for the candidates of more than one party," state-code section 24.2-530 makes clear as day. The Democratic Party and Republican Party state primaries on the schedule for June 14 are a mere two weeks away - meaning that it's time for those planning to go out to the polls to start thinking about the party lever that they most want to pull. ON THE BEAT: From the WSVA newsroom ... By Karl Magenhofer and Heather Fellin Trial heads into eighth week Man runs for slain women Dinardo delayed OBITUARIES: May 31, 2005 No obituaries were reported to The Augusta Free Press. AROUND TOWN: Community-news notebook By Chris Graham/AFP Another blast in Da 'Ville 'Cabaret' showing at Dixie cancelled Reception at Sunspots in Staunton NewBiz to unveil new Web site A new Web address for Augusta County Library VIEWS ON THE NEWS: Walk in their shoes for a day If you think the media is biased toward liberals - and many these days do - don't complain about it. Don't write letters to the editor about it. Don't e-mail other bloggers for the sake of commiserating about it. Do something about it. And when we say do something, we're not talking about what we've seen to date from the millions of self-appointed media critics who have popped up in literally every corner ...
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Our View If you think the media is biased toward liberals - and many these days do - don't complain about it. Don't write letters to the editor about it. Don't e-mail other bloggers for the sake of commiserating about it. Do something about it. And when we say do something, we're not talking about what we've seen to date from the millions of self-appointed media critics who have popped up in literally every corner of the United States. Oh, no. Media criticism is far too easy. Here's what we suggest - take up your notebook. And your pen. Call sources. Visit the courthouse to do some research. Attend a political rally or two or 100. Walk the streets, talk to merchants and consumers. Chat up people at the local social-services office. This is what the villified so-called liberal media does. Day after day after day after day. After all, somebody has to put out the original reporting for the rest of the world to slam as being biased. One word of warning: The pay is not going to be enough to sustain more than a no-frills way of life. (Funny how that never makes it above the fold, isn't it?) The old saw about walking in somebody else's shoes for a day might really open your eyes - if you let it.
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