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Presidential election
Illinois Senator Barack Obama, Democrat, was elected president; A watershed moment in American politics and history. As one BBC “commentator noted, “America finally shut the door on its racist past.”
Not in'Rappahannock though. The county voted for John McCain.
Power Line
Big story in 2008: Big business and power trump communities and environment. The Pennsylvania Public Utility'Commission (PUC) cleared the way for the socalled Trans-Allegheny Interstate Line to proceed with construction, parts of which go through Rappahannock. The PUC was the last regulatory hurdle for the power line project.
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