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Nan Grogan Orrock: Reshaping Pentagon spending

Published date: December 17, 2012 | 10:12 pm

With the campaigns over, our leaders must roll up their sleeves and get to work on the serious financial decisions facing the nation. Congress has known for more than a year that automatic budget cuts and tax increases loom in January, but they’ve left all the work to be done at the last minute. They need to hear from us that we expect them to make a balanced deal to preserve programs that strengthen our nation while making sensible budget cuts to programs that are wasteful or unnecessary.

McDonnell visits Greensville Correctional Center to review prisoner reentry programs

AFP

Published date: December 14, 2012 | 4:24 pm

Gov. Bob McDonnell visited the Greensville Correctional Center today to review prisoner reentry programs, including the Cognitive Community Program, Campus Within Walls Program, Animal Assisted Compassionate Activities and the DMV Connect program.

Webb: Defense bill safeguards troops, advances critical defense, national security initiatives

AFP

Published date: December 6, 2012 | 12:22 am

The U.S. Senate last night passed the National Defense Authorization Actfor Fiscal Year 2013, which includes numerous defense and national-security initiatives long advocated by Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.). The bill, approved by a vote of 98-0, will now be conferenced with the House Armed Services Committee.

David Levine: No more business as usual

AFP

Published date: December 3, 2012 | 6:50 pm

My family and I live in Lower Manhattan. Hurricane Sandy left us, as it did so many other families and businesses, without power, heat, hot water and refrigeration. Out heartfelt best goes out to all who were affected. Recovery hasn’t been easy – not for any of us.

Ken Plum: Virginia’s mixed holiday blessings

Ken Plum

Published date: November 30, 2012 | 12:15 pm

Updated: July 14, 2025 | 7:02 pm

Virginians are living through this holiday season with mixed blessings. At least that is the conclusion of the Center for American Progress Action Fund 2012 Annual Report “Tracking Indicators of Poverty and Opportunity in Virginia.”

Sen. Webb cosponsors bipartisan legislation to help individuals with disabilities save for the future

AFP

Published date: November 20, 2012 | 9:31 pm

Updated: November 20, 2012 | 9:33 pm

Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) co-sponsored the bipartisan Achieving a Better Life Experience (ABLE) Act, a bill that will allow people with disabilities to more easily save for necessary expenses.

McDonnell seeks federal assistance related to Sandy

AFP

Published date: November 16, 2012 | 5:43 pm

Gov. Bob McDonnell today asked for federal disaster assistance to help 28 Virginia communities recover from the affects of Hurricane Sandy, an extremely large storm that brought high winds, heavy rains, coastal erosion and tidal flooding to the eastern portion of the Commonwealth and dropped significant snowfall in the west and southwest. Sandy caused three tragic deaths in Virginia.

Report: Homeless rate down 8 percent in Virginia

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Published date: November 14, 2012 | 10:41 pm

Gov. Bob McDonnell announced today the state is making significant headway toward the goal of reducing statewide homelessness. Citing data collected by local Continuum of Care groups across the Commonwealth, compiled by the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development and the Virginia Coalition to End Homelessness, the governor announced that overall homelessness has declined 8 percent from 2010 to 2012 and for families the reduction has been even more pronounced, an 11 percent reduction. Additionally, there has been a drop of 36 percent in the number of people experiencing chronic homelessness in Virginia.

Morris Reid: It’s time to get back to work in Washington

AFP

Published date: November 14, 2012 | 10:21 pm

Updated: November 14, 2012 | 10:35 pm

With President Obama being re-elected, now is the time for the President and Congress to get back to work. The 2012 campaigns have ended and now it is time to stop the name calling, bickering and double talk and instead to work together to solve problems that our country faces.

Delphine Enterprise Center breathes new life into facility

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Published date: November 8, 2012 | 8:36 pm

Updated: November 8, 2012 | 8:37 pm

A half-million-square-foot Waynesboro facility that had been sitting unused has a new lease on life again.

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Nan Grogan Orrock: Reshaping Pentagon spending

McDonnell visits Greensville Correctional Center to review prisoner reentry programs

Webb: Defense bill safeguards troops, advances critical defense, national security initiatives

David Levine: No more business as usual

Ken Plum: Virginia’s mixed holiday blessings

Sen. Webb cosponsors bipartisan legislation to help individuals with disabilities save for the future

McDonnell seeks federal assistance related to Sandy

Report: Homeless rate down 8 percent in Virginia

Morris Reid: It’s time to get back to work in Washington

Delphine Enterprise Center breathes new life into facility

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