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Analysis by Chris Graham [email protected] Even grading on a curve, Shenandoah Valley legislators didn’t score well on the Virginia League of Conservation Voters annual Legislative Conservation Scorecard released yesterday. The scorecard, based on a series of votes on conservation issues in the 2008 Virginia General Assembly session tracked by the League, rated each of the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate Creigh Deeds has authorized the return of $1,500 in campaign contributions from the U.S. subsidiary of an Australian toll-road company that recently broke ground on a HOT lanes project in Northern Virginia. Transurban Inc. is a U.S. subsidiary of an Australian company and is thus not…
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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] More of your taxpayer dollars are headed toward the wastebasket. “It is my belief that Virginia’s partial-birth abortion ban, passed overwhelmingly by the people’s elected representatives in the General Assembly, is constitutional. Given the significance of the issues at stake, and the fact that the United States…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] When we think the words attorney general, we think crime and justice. We don’t think about the role that an attorney general plays in how government runs on a day-to-day basis. Just because we don’t think about it doesn’t mean that it’s not an important part of the job.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I had Bill Bolling on the line, so I had to ask. Are you running for governor next year? “Everywhere I go, it seems that the only question that’s on everybody’s mind is, Are you going to run for governor in 2009? So despite my best efforts to get everybody…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling stressed that his decision to stay out of the 2009 governor’s race had nothing to do with trying to avoid a pitched battle with Attorney General Bob McDonnell. But you have to wonder if that wasn’t a big reason that the Republican is essentially ceding the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling will not be in the running for the Republican Party gubernatorial nomination in 2009. “While I deeply appreciate the encouragement I have received from countless people all across our state, I have decided that I will not be a candidate for governor in 2009. While it would be…
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Column by Steve Landes This last week in Richmond was one of the busiest and most eventful of the session, as the General Assembly has now reached the home stretch in completing its work for 2008. In a week that began with a federal holiday and ended with my attendance at the celebration of the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s say you’re a law-enforcement investigator raiding a cockfight in Virginia. “You could have 100 people there, and 50 of them have entered roosters in the derby,” said John Goodwin, the manager of animal-fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States, setting the scene for us. “When the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Let’s say you’re a law-enforcement investigator raiding a cockfight in Virginia. “You could have 100 people there, and 50 of them have entered roosters in the derby,” said John Goodwin, the manager of animal-fighting issues for the Humane Society of the United States, setting the scene for us.
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