
Creigh Deeds: Budget deliberations begin in General Assembly
The 2015 Session of the General Assembly is hurdling toward adjournment. The word around here is that we may complete our work earlier than the scheduled February 28 adjournment.

The 2015 Session of the General Assembly is hurdling toward adjournment. The word around here is that we may complete our work earlier than the scheduled February 28 adjournment.

What gets 13 girlfriends to the theatre on a Thursday night in February? A school night? A weekday? No surprise that it was the Fifty Shades of Grey movie. This wasn’t a movie that I could ask my husband to go to with me. But it didn’t take much convincing to round up a circle of friends to go to Zeus Digital Theaters in Waynesboro on opening night.

The Addams Family will be coming to Staunton on March 20-22. You can catch them on Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 or on Sunday at 2:30 at Robert E. Lee High School.

The Virginia House of Delegates passed its amendments to the 2014-2016 biennial budget Thursday, setting aside $99.5 million for the next rainy-day fund deposit, and eliminating $42.5 million in debt and $10.2 million in fees proposed by Governor McAuliffe.

House Republican leaders highlighted the success of their policy agenda at crossover in a press conference on Wednesday.

Delegate Dickie Bell (R-Staunton) announced today that House Bills 1361 and 1437 and House Joint Resolution 490 have passed in the House of Delegates.

Sarah Armstrong, a longtime public-school educator, will help teachers earn master’s degrees in her new role as director of the MA in Education program at Eastern Mennonite University.

The Virginia House of Delegates Committee on Appropriations presented its proposed amendments to the 2014-2016 biennial state budget Sunday.

We often remember our presidents by their biggest decisions, the ones you read about in history books or biographies. But many times it was their small decisions and daily dedications that had considerable impact on our nation.

The House budget proposal unveiled Sunday will include $19.8 million targeted to additional enrollment slots at Virginia schools and to increasing graduation rates.