Fifth District Rep. Virgil H. Goode’s sponsorship of the “Fair Tax Act of 2007” will be an issue in his re-election contest next year.

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The most important issue now for Americans has not been debated or made public by Congress or the media.

Perfectly at home with the history of politics, David Shreve is trying to make history by unseating an incumbent congressman in a 5th District whose incumbents tend to swat away challengers with canny regularity.

I’m still a conservative. And still proud of it.

POLITICAL NOTEBOOK So who votes in party primaries these days- Not a whole lot of ordinary Virginians who don’t pay particular attention to partisan hues of reds or blues.

Officials at the Wintergreen Resort in Nelson County fear that an immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate could eviscerate the 11,000-acre resort’s labor pool.