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WTA’s Gateway will present its first evening in 2013 devoted exclusively to traditional bluegrass music on Saturday, Feb. 2. Back by popular demand are The SunnySide Family Band and Blue Mountain Sunrise. Performance will begin at 8 p.m. at 329 West Main in downtown Waynesboro.
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Presumptive Democratic Party gubernatorial nominee Terry McAuliffe announced Wednesday that Ellen Qualls and Alan Moore are joining his campaign. Qualls will serve as senior advisor, and Alan Moore will serve as direct mail consultant.
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The Virginia House of Delegates Courts of Justice Committee cleared a major tort reform package on Monday, sending six pieces of legislation to the floor of the House of Delegates for final approval. The legislative package represents a major compromise between the business, medical and legal communities and will make significant changes to key areas of Virginia’s tort laws. The measures will help reduce costly and unnecessary lawsuits, streamline the litigation process, protect the integrity of the tort system and reduce legal costs for Virginia businesses.
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In a Tom DeLay, Texas-style move, Republicans in the Virginia State Senate redrew the legislative district lines without public notice or involvement. This action in the 20-20 divided body came on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday when Democratic Senator Henry Marsh, who is one of Virginia’s most prominent civil rights leaders, was away attending President Obama’s inauguration.
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Wow, that was quick. Barely 24 hours after UVa. football coach Mike London had announced that offensive coordinator Bill Lazor was leaving for the NFL, it was announced that Steve Fairchild had been hired to replace Lazor on the staff.
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Top Rope Pro Wrestling has made a $389 contribution to the Virginia Wounded Warrior Program. Top Rope partnered with the Wounded Warriors to put on the Jan. 5 New Year’s Chaos event in Lexington, Va. A representative of the program was on hand at the live pro-wrestling event to talk with fans about Wounded Warriors,…
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U.S. Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine are joining bipartisan efforts to push immigration reform in a Congress that has been reluctant at best to move on the issue.
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A State Senate committee voted Tuesday to kill legislation that would have set a new course for apportioning Virginia’s 13 electoral votes. The proposal would have broken up the state’s electoral votes by congressional district rather than the current winner-take-all system that allowed Democrat Barack Obama to win the state in each of the past two presidential cycles.
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UVa. rallied from a pair of 10-point first-half deficits to stun 19th-ranked N.C. State, 58-55, on Tuesday in Charlottesville. The win, the fourth in a row for Virginia, lifts the Cavaliers (15-5, 5-2 ACC) to sole possession of second place in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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Not that it will get very far, given the political realities, but House Democrats are weighing in with their own recommended course of action for dealing with the state’s transportation system.
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