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Rep. Frank Wolf (R-10th) today told the Senate Budget Committee that the only way to address the nation’s growing debt is to create a bipartisan commission and require Congress to vote up or down its recommendations. Wolf, who for three years has been advocating for a blue ribbon panel that would put everything from entitlement…
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Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will return to the University of Richmond to resume his teaching career in law and leadership studies after his term in office ends in January. Kaine, a Harvard law graduate who also has served as mayor of Richmond and lieutenant governor, has accepted a joint appointment in the university’s School…
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This just in to the AFP newsroom – Bob McDonnell can now be projected the winner in the 2009 Virginia governor’s race. OK, most people still have yet to vote, but the writing is on the wall, clearly, with the Republican leading Democrat Creigh Deeds by at least 10 points in the pre-election polls. The…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine noted today that state agencies have reported more than 5,900 jobs created or saved from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds flowing through the State Treasury. To date, more than $5 billion in ARRA contracts, grants and loans have been awarded in Virginia, with more than half in the form of…
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Friday, Oct. 30 MR. GIBBS: Good afternoon. We’ll try to do this quickly so we can get to afternoon meetings with the Joint Chiefs. But let me start out with giving you guys a quick rundown of the week ahead. On Saturday, tomorrow, the First Family will welcome more than 2,000 local area children from…
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A new scholarship endowed by Food City will help connect top graduates from western Virginia community colleges to the James Madison University College of Business. The Jack C. Smith Scholarship, announced in late September by the Jack and Judy Smith Family Foundation, provides $5,000 annual awards to rising juniors in the COB who hold an…
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This one won’t be easy. Last week’s commentary was a piece of cake. We suggested Jody Wagner for lieutenant governor and Steve Shannon for attorney general. Now for the main event between Bob McDonnell and Creigh Deeds. Writing about the gubernatorial contest last summer would have been easy. A clear picture was seen. There was…
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Dear EarthTalk: Has anyone ever studied the environmental impact of discarded cigarettes? I’m constantly appalled at the number of drivers I see pitching their butts out their car windows? – Ned Jordan, via e-mail It’s true that littered cigarette butts are a public nuisance, and not just for aesthetic reasons. The filters on cigarettes—four fifths…
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A new Rasmussen Reports poll has Republican gubernatorial nominee Bob McDonnell leading Democrat Creigh Deeds by a 54 percent-to-41 percent margin, and a new Virginia Commonwealth University Commonwealth Poll has McDonnell leading by a 54 percent-to-36 percent gap. Both polls, released on Wednesday, make clear that the strategy of the Deeds campaign to hinge its…
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It’s looking like it’s going to be a short Election Night. “At this point it’s pretty hard to see Creigh Deeds pulling it out,” said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling, which released a Virginia state election poll on Tuesday that has all three Republican statewide candidates up and up big over their Democratic…
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