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漏 lev radin 鈥?Shutterstock President Biden gave West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin another political triumph with the Mountain Valley Pipeline.The president agreed to include provisions to greenlight the 303-mile pipeline that stretches from West Virginia through Virginia and into Nort stanley cup spain h Carolina in the debt-ceiling deal.The move, the latest in a long line of appeasements f stanley cup rom Biden to keep Manchin in the Democratic Party fold, made the provision practically politically invulnerable, given the tight deadline to get the debt-ceiling deal passed.Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine tried to get the language removed from the deal on Thursday, but his amendment to do so was defeated by a 69-30 vote.The capitulation from Biden to Manchin earned the president sharp criticism from environmental groups after the debt-ceiling bill passed late Thursday night.Action Network is leading a StopMVPNow rally scheduled for June 8 at the White House to demand that Biden stop the Mountain Valley stanley thermos Pipeline. Lawmakers in Congress should never have been given the false choice between economic collapse and approving a sweetheart deal for one fossil fuel company, said Michael Town, executive director of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters. The Mountain Valley Pipelines inclusion in this must-pass bill was incredibly cynical, and we know what comes next: more environmental devastation from an irresponsible developer, and more pain in Southwest Virginia. We are incredibly grateful for the leadership of Sen. T Dohm Staunton District Traffic Alert: Week of July 27-31

Chris Graham and Scott German preview Thursdays ACC clash between 1 Virginia and Louisville, weigh the upset losses of Duke and UNC heading into their rivalry game on Saturday, and then try to make sense of ESPN analyst Jay Williams calling for a players boycott of the Final Four.聽About Chris GrahamChris Graham, the editor of聽AugustaFreePress, will mark his 23rd聽year in the media industry in 2018. An award-winning journalist and editor, Chris has also hosted local TV news programs, a syndicated sports talk show and聽worked as a commentator on ESPN3 college football and baseball broadcasts.A 1994 graduate of the University of Virginia, Chris has covered聽Virginia politics聽actively since 1997, conducting interviews with governors George Allen, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, Bob McDo stanley quencher nnell and Terry McAuliffe, and political newsmakers including former Congressman Tom Perriello, UVA political-science profe stanley thermo ssor Larry Sabato, ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl and Fox Business host Lou Dobbs.Other notable interview subjects have included author聽John Grisham, ESPN TV personality聽Dick Vitale, sportswriter and author聽John Feinstein, Weather Channel anchor聽Stephanie Abrams聽and musician聽Bruce Hornsby.An author of six books,聽Chris also co-wrote a book on the history of University of Virginia basketball,聽Mad About U: Four Decades of Basketball at University Hall, which was published in 2006 stanley website .Chris has covered聽University of Virginia聽sports since 1995, and is a credentialed