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The Politics Beat column by Chris Graham [email protected] One thing we can all agree on – we need to do something about our roads. Right? Right? “With the housing economy the way it is today, I don’t know that adding a new cost is the wisest thing to do,” said Del. Phil Hamilton, R-Newport News, echoing…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Look at the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial race one way, and it looks an awful lot like the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race. You’ve got two candidates in both who are perceived as being basically dead-even right now who you have to assume will fight to the death for the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Bill Bolling sounds like somebody who is thinking about how he would do things differently if he was governor. “Under the best of circumstances, adopting a budget is difficult. It’s even more difficult when you have sluggish economic growth. But the governor did unnecessarily complicate the process by bringing us…
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Column by Chris Graham [email protected] It was much ado about … nothing, really. I mean, seriously, what did five days of overtime get us as far as the tax dollars that we had to spend ironically to get a budget out of our legislators are concerned? Well, we got $1.5 million for Alicia’s Law. That’s…
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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell The Virginia General Assembly has finished the majority of its work. Bills that passed both the Virginia House of Delegates and the Virginia Senate have now been sent to Gov. Tim Kaine for consideration. The more significant legislation from the 2008 session includes: • The most sweeping overhaul of…
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Column by Steve Landes Although there are just a few days remaining until the scheduled end of this year’s session of the Virginia General Assembly, events aren’t slowing down. This is the part of the session where delegates and senators meet to work out the final details on a wide range of legislation, and when…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Listen to today’s “SportsDominion Show,” featuring an interview with John Goodwin of The Humane Society of the United States. Show Length: 11:12. It’s not often that you see legislation once viewed as highly controversial make it through a legislative session almost intact from the day it was introduced and passed…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] Virginia is going to have a vice-presidential nominee soon. Just has to be in the cards. I mean, Tim Kaine is all over the airwaves, for one. Last week, the wife turns on “Fox News Sunday,” and there our governor is, Sunday morning, 9 a.m., sitting in…
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Column by Steve Landes We have now passed the midway point of the 2008 General Assembly session, commonly referred to as “crossover.” The House passed 616 of the 1,576 bills filed by delegates and the Senate approved 433 of the 795 bills filed by senators. Now, the House will spend the bulk of its time…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Count me as being among those in the Virginia punditry who thinks that the main reason the Commonwealth is in play politically these days is because of Mark Warner. That having been established as a baseline, I’ve been interested, to say the least, at the thought of what people like…
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