Chris Graham: What will Warner do?
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The short answer: I don’t know any more than anybody else. Not that this stops me from having some strong thoughts on the subject
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Ken Plum: Higher education funding squeeze
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A favorite target for budget cutters in Virginia and other states during the economic recession has been higher education. While public institutions of higher education rely on state funding, there are other sources of funds available to them, the most obvious being tuition and fees. As the number of wealthy alumni grows, there is the…
Crossover: Dems Repubs offer views on ’12 GA session
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At a press conference in Richmond on Thursday, members of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses stood together to denounce the dozens of extreme, divisive bills passed over the first month of session. Republican leaders then responded with a press event aimed at highlighting what they termed their “positive reform agenda.” “Republicans are so focused…
David Reynolds: The Virginia Reel
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This is how it’s done. First, you take a short walk. Then you sashay, a step where the left moves off to the side, only to be chased by the right. Then you go in the opposite direction, with the right leading being chased by the left. Then you act like children, you do some…
House Dems step up rhetoric on education funding
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Members of the House Democratic Caucus are vowing to protect school funding in the budget prior to next month’s vote. Education remains a point of contention in Gov. McDonnell’s 2012 biennium, with the overwhelming majority of new money going into Virginia’s retirement system instead of into the classroom. Del. Ken Plum (D-Fairfax) spoke on Monday…
Chris Graham: A catastrophe in the making
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That’s how I’m describing the budget-wrangling in Richmond that will effectively reduce state spending on K-12 education in Virginia. The moves – forced by Gov. Bob McDonnell’s push on funding for the Virginia Retirement System for public-sector employees – are forcing the hands of local decision-makers. Local government, of course, is where the rubber hits…
Ken Plum: Devolution all over again
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In this column I made the assertion a couple of months ago that the Commonwealth of Virginia was shirking its responsibility in funding its share of public school K-12 budgets. I wrote that the state has a responsibility under the constitution to fund 55 percent of the cost of public schools but is providing only…
Ken Plum: Virginia is shirking school funding responsibility
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In a recent column I questioned how Virginia could have hundreds of millions of dollars in budget surplus when the Commonwealth has “a responsibility to fund 55 percent of public education and is paying just 41 percent.” The Truth-O-Meter column of the Richmond Times Dispatch decided to check out my statement. It checked the report…
Cline kicks off re-election bid with manufacturing tour
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Del. Ben Cline (R-24) today officially kicked off his campaign for re-election to the House of Delegates this November with a focus on creating jobs and accelerating Virginia’s economic recovery. Del. Cline was joined by Congressman Bob Goodlatte as he toured three local manufacturers in the 24th House District. “It has been an honor for…
David Reynolds: A wild dream?
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Virginia created the problem. Isn’t it time the commonwealth solved it? No other state has small independent cities barely able to survive, but too proud to die. So they struggle with high taxes, marginal services and a check from Richmond to run the schools. Put it this way: Virginia’s independent cities with fewer than 25,000…
