Overtime

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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline Under Article 4 of the Constitution of Virginia, “no regular session of the General Assembly convened in an even-numbered year shall continue longer than sixty days.” That means that the 2008 session should have adjourned for the year on Saturday, March 8. However, as the hours passed last Saturday,…

Budget Sunday

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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…

Always runnin’

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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham So I’m walking down the streets of Buena Vista the other day, when out of the blue came a guy running for … something. “You still hang around with the mainstream media?” Mark Warner asked me as he made his way toward another handshake at the annual Labor…