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Gov. Tim Kaine is in on the green-collar revolution. “In today’s economy, we can turn our energy challenges into an opportunity,” Kaine said Monday in announcing his Renew Virginia initiative, which will focus on the development of strategies to attract renewable-energy companies to the Commonwealth and bring their green jobs to Virginia with them.
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Eighty thousand Medicare Protection booklets will be going out to seniors and their caregivers in Virginia, a joint effort of the Virginia Association of Area Agencies on Aging Senior Medicare Patrol Program, the Virginia Department for the Aging and the Virginia Bureau of Insurance.
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So you’re the governor of Virginia, and you’re trying to make the tough calls on the state budget with a Commonwealth that like the rest of the country and the world that is in the midst of an economic downturn. Your first order of business would seem to be to try to get some sense…
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Gov. Tim Kaine made several stops in Staunton and Augusta County today as part of his Community Cabinet Day tour of the Commonwealth. AFP editor Chris Graham was the governor’s shadow on his travels through the Valley and filed this report. Length: 3:27.
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Video from the remarks offered by Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine and U.S. Senate candidate Mark Warner at the Barack Obama rally at the JMU Convocation Center on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Length: 7:00.
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Video from a Tim Kaine web ad that was cut to accompany the release of a radio ad featuring the Virginia governor talking up his support for Democratic Party presidential nominee Barack Obama. Length: 1:06 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjGXSplVbJY&e]
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Gov. Tim Kaine wants to balance the fiscal-year 2009 state budget with $348 million in state-agency cuts, the utilization of $400 million from the state’s Rainy Day Fund and the bonding of $250 million in capital projects that the state had been planning to pay for with cash. The measures…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] They’re cutting newspaper subscriptions, staff cell-phone costs, even the grocery bill for official events at the state residence. Yep, it’s getting serious in Richmond. “If Virginia families and businesses have to make difficult spending decisions in tough times, we need to show them we’re doing the same,” Gov. Tim Kaine…
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The Top Story by Chris Graham [email protected] House Majority Leader Morgan Griffith and Grayson Republican Del. Bill Carrico are promising a pitched legislative fight in next year’s Virginia General Assembly to overturn a Virginia State Police policy crafted in response to a ruling from the conservative Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals from the summer banning…
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Staff Report A tool on the State Board of Elections website can be used to confirm your voter-registration status online – and Gov. Tim Kaine is urging Virginians to use it between now and the Oct. 6 deadline to register to vote in the ’08 election. “By taking a few minutes to use this simple…
AFP will break down local, Virginia and national races in the battle for the control of Congress Tuesday night.