Court: Virginia has standing to sue over health-care reform

Chris Graham

A federal judge ruled Monday that the Commonwealth of Virginia does have standing to bring suit to invalidate the federal health-care reform, dismissing the Obama administration’s motion to have the suit brought forward by Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli dismissed. “We are pleased that Judge Hudson agreed that Virginia has the standing to move forward with…

Bain: ‘I don’t think big-government solutions work’

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Story by Chris Graham [email protected]   One of the major parties, Sixth District congressional candidate Stuart Bain says, wants to tax and spend. The other “wants to spend, but they don’t want to tax.” “Both of the major parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, have progressive government plans. It’s just a matter of, do they…

Elias Feghall: Reform and recovery

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Column by Elias Feghali Submit guest columns: [email protected]   Fixing our broken immigration system is vital to America’s economic recovery. As our economy shrinks, state governments are desperate for revenue. Without additional sources of funds, they are increasingly making the decision to cut important social services, raise taxes, or even worse, lay off hard-working state…

Bruce Sallan: Overcoming fear

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A Dad’s Point-of-View column by Bruce Sallan www.brucesallan.com   My son and I had an extraordinary experience this Spring Break while on a ski trip at Mammoth, Calif. It was just the two of us, since my wife stayed home for work and my older son preferred hanging out with his friends and girlfriend (I…

#4 ‘Hoos roll over Dukes

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Edited by Chris Graham [email protected]   The #4 Virginia baseball team downed James Madison, 9-4, Tuesday evening in front of 2,521 spectators at Davenport Field. Virginia’s Tyler Cannon (Sr., Pigeon Forge, Tenn.) went 3-for-5 with a pair of doubles and two RBI. John Barr (Jr., Ivyland, Pa.), Kenny Swab (Jr., Kernersville, N.C.) and Chris Taylor…

Ken Plum: No movement on transportation

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Column by Ken Plum www.kenplum.com   Ask any of the residents of Northern Virginia to name the top two or three major challenges facing the region and virtually all will include traffic congestion. Yet with this well defined need and the election of a new governor who ran with a “transportation plan,” the legislature adjourned…