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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.
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The holiday season is busy for most everyone regardless of faith and family traditions and the holidays we choose to celebrate. Increasingly there is a trend towards the winter holiday celebration beginning soon after Halloween.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell’s biennial budget amendments, to be officially released on Monday in his annual speech to the Joint Money Committees, will include $250,000 in state support for the Parkinson’s and Movement Disorders Center at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.
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Moments in political history are hard to spot. However, I think I may have spotted one ten months ago. On Friday, February 10, 2012, at around 2:15 pm, there was a changing of the Old Guard of the Grand Old Party of the Old Dominion. That’s a lot of old. But that’s Virginia. Its past is never past.
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Gov. Bob McDonnell has signaled his support for an adjustment to the state gas tax to provide more revenue for transportation improvements. Grover Norquist, the man behind the no-tax pledge, has a message for McDonnell and other Republicans who might be thinking of moving with the GOP governor in favor of higher gas taxes.
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Virginia allowed under 40 points for the second straight game, the first time the Cavaliers have allowed under 40 in consecutive games since 1948-49 (38 by Langley Field, 39 by Richmond Royals)
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Going to overtime for the first time this season, the George Mason men’s basketball team could not hold off Northern Iowa as the Panthers dealt the Patriots a 82-77 loss on Saturday night at the Patriot Center.
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, incoming Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, announced on Friday his senior staff for the House Judiciary Committee.
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James Madison opened the first half with a 21-5 advantage and added a 20-4 start to the second half to coast past East Tennessee State 70-45 in a non-conference men’s basketball game on Wednesday night at the JMU Convocation Center.
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On Saturday, Dec. 15 from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. a Community Health Fair will get underway at the Booker T. Washington Community Center, 1114 W. Johnson Street, Staunton, to provide an opportunity for neighbors and friends to come and enjoy free live holiday music, health screenings, public information booths, and toys for the children.
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