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Brian Moran will succeed Dick Cranwell as chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Moran, a former state delegate and 2009 Democratic Party gubernatorial-nomination candidate, bested former Arlington County Democratic chair Peter Rousselot in voting by the party’s State Central Committee. “I want to thank Peter Rousselot for running a great campaign and raising a…
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This weekend the Senate will finally be voting on the Bush tax cuts. This should not be a controversial vote for our leaders in the Senate. In fact, this is the first issue of the lame duck session where the public is overwhelming in agreement. A CBS poll this week found that only 26 percent of…
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Gov. Bob McDonnell will call for $50 million in new higher-education spending in his amendments to the 2010-2012 state budget, he said today. McDonnell made the announcement as part of the rollout of Preparing for the Top Jobs of the 21st Century: The Virginia Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2011, a legislative package that he…
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David H. Shenk is leaving his home in Harrisonburg for South America on Sunday, Dec. 5, and doesn’t expect to return for two years. It’s a long time to be gone, but he’s ready to put into action that which he feels prepared to do. Shenk, 23, was born at Shenandoah Hospital in Woodstock, Va.,…
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The Virginia Department of Transportation completed installation of 70 mph speed limit signs in November, more than a month before the estimated completion date of Dec. 31. The initiative results in 61 percent of Virginia’s interstates having speed limits of 70 mph. The last segments – Interstate 95 from Ashland to Spotsylvania, the southern piece…
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Editor Chris Graham joins WREL’s “Online with Jim Bresnahan” for their weekly look at the latest news in Virginia politics. The segment begins with a discussion of an interview done by the Washington Post of Gov. Bob McDonnell in which McDonnell sidestepped a question on whatever interest he might have in a spot on the…
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I don’t personally have any issue with the notion that government needs to be run more efficiently and run more like a business. Anybody with experience managing a business or organization knows that there are inevitably inefficiencies that can be accounted for and corrected to make things run more smoothly. A problem I have is…
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Morale should have been about zippo. Virginia Tech, just a few days earlier a national-championship contender in the eyes of many, had just fallen to 0-2 following a loss to !-AA James Madison. To the credit of the kids in the Hokie locker room, what they saw wasn’t how far they had fallen, but how…
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It’s all about attitude Morale should have been about zippo. Virginia Tech, just a few days earlier a national-championship contender in the eyes of many, had just fallen to 0-2 following a loss to !-AA James Madison. To the credit of the kids in the Hokie locker room, what they saw wasn’t how far they…
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Virginia Democrats are seizing upon an apparent attempt at hedging by Gov. Bob McDonnell in an interview with The Washington Post about whatever interest he might have in running for president in 2012. “Either he intends to serve his full term as Governor or he doesn’t,” Democratic Party of Virginia Chairman Dick Cranwell said,
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