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The state is closing the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents as part of a strategy to shift mental-health care for children to the private sector and local community services boards. OK. Except that the closing is the result of the state budget shortfall. Got it. I think we have our real motivation right there.
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Whaddya think about being able to go into a restaurant and not having to deal with the contradiction in terms that is a no-smoking section? “The scientific evidence about the health risks associated with exposure to secondhand smoke remains clear and convincing,” said Gov. Tim Kaine, who announced yesterday his support for legislation that would…
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Gov. Tim Kaine is backing legislation that would allow for no-excuse, in-person absentee voting in Virginia. Patroned by State Sen. Janet Howell, D-Reston, and State Del. Rosalyn Dance, D-Petersburg, the legislation, styled SB 810, would allow Virginia voters to cast absentee ballots in person at their local registrar’s office during the 45-day absentee voting period…
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AFP editor Chris Graham will be a guest on WINA-1070AM’s “Charlottesville-Right Now!” with Coy Barefoot today at 4:15 p.m. Chris and Coy will be talking about the news that Tim Kaine will be taking over the Democratic National Committee, the announcement from Terry McAuliffe regarding his run for the 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial nomination and, switching…
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Looking back on it, wouldn’t it have made sense to have started doing something about our transportation-infrastructure limitations, I don’t know, maybe a few years ago when the economy was relatively purring and the dollars were available to address the traffic jams in NoVa and Hampton Roads and the clogged arteries inhibiting commerce statewide?
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We’ve heard from the politicians howling about Tim Kaine proposing a tax increase during a recession. There’s another side howling over the governor’s proposed 30-cent increase in the state cigarette tax.
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My friend Coy Barefoot at WINA-1070AM in Charlottesville wants me to talk about the Top 10 news stories of 2008 in Virginia government and politics on his radio show “Charlottesville-Right Now!” this afternoon. So here’s my stab at it, “Countdown”-style.
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One thing is for sure when you ask Creigh Deeds a question. He’s going to give you an answer, and it’s not going to be one of those politician answers where you think afterward that he really didn’t give too much away. “The things that I talk about aren’t things that people have told me…
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Good news for Virginia food banks – Gov. Tim Kaine included in his recommendations for amendments to the 2009-2010 state budget the addition of $1 million in grant money that would help food banks in the Commonwealth purchase food.
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Some bad news in the short term for Staunton came out of the governor’s budget message to the Virginia General Assembly today. And then there was the good news. “The construction of the new Western State Hospital and development of the existing hospital property come as great news for Staunton,” said city manager Steve Owen,…
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