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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline This past Sunday was “Budget Sunday,” the day that the House and Senate appropriations committees released their amendments to the two-year budget that the governor introduced last December. Legislators, lobbyists and other groups with a stake in the budget waited in line for hours to get copies…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell One of the General Assembly’s biggest jobs in 2008 is to craft the two-year budget that will begin on July 1. This year, the economic slowdown – especially in the housing industry – has meant that revenue is $1.4 billion below projections. Although the overall budget is increasing slightly,…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline As the second week of the 2008 General Assembly session began, we saw ominous signs from Wall Street about the direction of the national economy. In response, the pesident and Congress have announced plans for a bipartisan economic-stimulus package that includes tax credits for distressed sectors of…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline With the bang of the speaker’s gavel at noon last Wednesday, the 2008 session of the Virginia General Assembly began. It’s fitting that the bang of a gavel sounds a lot like the firing of a starter’s pistol in a track race. In Virginia, the legislative session…
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Story by Chris Graham Followers of women’s basketball know the significance of the numbers IX and 10. “IX” refers to Title IX, the landmark federal law that in 1972 mandated that schools, colleges and universities provide equal funding to men’s and women’s sports. “10,” of course, relates to the 10th season of the Women’s National…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham He’s Br’er Rabbit, and the newspaper headlines are his Briar Patch. Don’t keep threatening to kick me out of the party. , Russ Potts says to Republicans, daily.A reporter might pick up on it, and that would spell my doom. Actually, what has happened is that Potts, running…
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