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Virginia Tech’s Erick Green has been selected as the ACC Player of the Week. Green averaged 19.0 points, 3.5 assists and 3.0 steals as the Hokies won twice. In Thursday’s 74-57 win at Maryland, the Winchester, Va., sophomore scored a career-high 24 points and added a game-high four steals in 37 minutes of action. On…
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Former Virginia governor and United States senator George Allen, as expected, has thrown his hat into the ring for the 2012 Senate Republican nomination. Allen on Monday announced his candidacy for the seat that he held for a single six-year term from 2001-2007. A once-popular Republican, Allen, governor from 1994-1998, had been looked at as…
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On the way home from road wins, the Virginia Commonwealth University men’s basketball team usually devours pizza after pizza. Saturday, the Rams might want to leave room for eating some ice cream and cake on the way home after a gutsy 59-50 road win at Old Dominion. “I’m so proud of the way our guys…
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An 18-3 run gave Virginia control at the half, and the Cavs coasted from there to a 72-64 win over Georgia Tech on Saturday. It was 25-24 UVa. with about four minutes to go in the first half before the big run broke the game open. Virginia (11-8, 2-3 ACC) led 43-29 at the break…
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George Mason used a 17-2 run midway through the second half and held off James Madison the rest of the way to record a 75-73 win in a Colonial Athletic Association men’s basketball game Saturday at the Convocation Center. Mason improved to 14-5 with the win and 6-2 in the CAA. JMU lost its second…
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A House of Delegates subcommittee on Friday struck from its docket a bill to authorize Virginia’s secretive Fusion Center to expand its scope from collecting information on terrorist threats to also collecting data on ordinary crimes. The ACLU of Virginia had led an effort to publicly oppose the bill, saying that a heavily criticized 2009…
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The ACLU of Virginia on Friday objected to a decision by the Giles County School Board to re-post the Ten Commandments in public schools, and says it will consider legal action. “This action flies in the face of both strong legal precedents and our fundamental notions of what religious equality means in the United States,”…
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The 2011 session is proving to be one of the busiest I’ve seen. A typical day starts before 7 a.m. when constituents come to the General Assembly Building to meet with their legislators, followed quickly by 7:30 a.m. subcommittee meetings. Standing committees meet before and after the 12 p.m. session and last into the evening,…
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The people of the Fifth District sent a clear message on Election Day in support of repealing the government takeover of health care. This week, I was proud to put the will of the people into action by co-sponsoring and voting to repeal the health care law that raises costs, increases taxes and spending, and…
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For at least five days a week through the end of February I will be in Richmond for the annual General Assembly session. The normally quiet Capitol Square starts to buzz with activity as the 100 members of the House of Delegates and the 40 members of the State Senate, their staff of one or…
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