David Gura hosts coverage of national and international news, including breaking stories. Opportunity for a politicians challenger. In this case it is a democrat named nate mcmurray. I reached out to him a couple of hours ago and got this statement. He says this. It is absolutely true that Chris Collins should not be running for this or any other seat, a fact that the local Republican Party knew full well when they endorsed and celebrated him while he was under investigation for securities fraud. So the question now is, if this seat, this safe republican seat is now in jeopardy, can the democrat, nate mcmurray, raise enough money, secure enough outside support, and then win over enough rightleaning voters to pick up this seat and unseat any republican challenger, if it is Chris Collins or someone else . We have to see if that will be the case. One thing we know for sure is that democrats know all too well they only have to flip about two dozen seats to take back control of the house, d
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UVA alum transforming the way you blow out birthday candles Mark Apelt testing out the Blowzee (Source: WVIR) By Rachel Hirschheimer | April 27, 2021 at 1:34 PM EDT - Updated April 27 at 1:34 PM
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) -
Blowing out birthday candles is a tradition that has been around for centuries, but this celebratory ritual may be going away as one University of Virginia alum is debuting a cleaner way of making a wish.
“Nobody’s handing you the hamburger and blowing on it and being like here’s your hamburger I just blew on it for you,” UVA Alum, Mark Apelt said.
When Apelt was out with friends before the pandemic, he had an idea.
what do us expect to see over the course of the weekend? i am a uva alum. it was a terrorist attack on the united states of america, and i really want to see how the community was responding. i ve been to, unfortunately, too many places in this either individually like the young man richard collins killed at university of maryland college park 15 minutes from where i live or ferguson, missouri, where sort of military police attacked peaceful protesters and i wanted to see if there was substance of change happening here and i must admits ever, in the time i ve been here, the level of self reflection in this community is much better than other places. they seem concerned about not having the problems continue. maybe because it is was white nationalist or the race of the victim but it seems like charlottesville is making changes and that is something i feel optimistic about. wes, bellamy, on that note, how has that conversation
counts hundreds of neo-nazi, white supremacist, and kkk groups among them, but that number appears to have gone after emboldened by the victory of president trump in november formed new groups and gather at rallies and mars like the one we saw yesterday in virginia. joining me, author of the book gospel according to the clan: the kkk s appeal to protestant america, and daily beast attributer. i want to ask you, the first question, you were there on the ground. is what we saw yesterday representative of what normally goes on there? not at all. not at all. in fact, i can t tell you, as a very, very proud uva alum and as an international student that went to the university of virginia, really the best of america is what i found in charlottesville, and the best of america is what i got from the city and from this university. and i can t tell you what a shock it is to see this small,