Finally, early voting in Virginia?

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Gov. Tim Kaine is backing legislation that would allow for no-excuse, in-person absentee voting in Virginia. Patroned by State Sen. Janet Howell, D-Reston, and State Del. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, the legislation, styled SB 810, would allow Virginia voters to cast absentee ballots in person at their local registrar’s office during the 45-day absentee voting period…

Agenda Update

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AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot today at 4:15 p.m. Chris and Coy will be talking about the news that Tim Kaine will be taking over the Democratic National Committee, the announcement from Terry McAuliffe regarding his run for the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination and, switching…

Roads fix on the backburner again

Chris Graham

Looking back on it, wouldn’t it have made sense to have started doing something about our transportation-infrastructure limitations, I don’t know, maybe a few years ago when the economy was relatively purring and the dollars were available to address the traffic jams in NoVa and Hampton Roads and the clogged arteries inhibiting commerce statewide?

Staunton moving forward with $20M project at WSH site

Chris Graham

Some bad news in the short term for Staunton came out of the governor’s budget message to the Virginia General Assembly today. And then there was the good news. “The construction of the new Western State Hospital and development of the existing hospital property come as great news for Staunton,” said city manager Steve Owen,…

Today’s Agenda

Chris Graham

… is so jam-packed that we had to get up and running with it before we could tell you everything that is going on today. Gov. Tim Kaine has unveiled his recommendations for dealing with the $2.9 billion state-budget shortfall. We’ve already reported on them and begun our work at analyzing the proposals from Kaine….

Rhetoric vs. reality

Chris Graham

“Frederick pointed out,” the release related, breathlessly, “that state spending has more than doubled over the last decade and increased by over 50 percent during the last five years.” That amounts to an indictment from the RPV chair, there, doesn’t it? Democrats, Jeffrey Frederick is saying, like Tim Kaine and Mark Warner spend money hand…