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The News Virginian and NBC29 are cohosting a debate featuring 25th House District candidates Steve Landes and Greg Marrow tonight at 6 p.m. at Kate Collins Middle School in Waynesboro. Landes, an Augusta County Republican and public relations and marketing professional, is running for an eighth term in the Virginia House of Delegates. Marrow, a…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced the expansions of six technology, distribution, and healthcare companies in Fairfax County. ACS State and Local Solutions, Beltway Supply Inc. Coveros Inc., Intec LLC, RightStar Systems and Senior Living.com are expected to create 334 new jobs over the next three years in Fairfax County.
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I’d thought that we’d already litigated, so to speak, the 2004 budget reform back in the 2005 state elections, when Republican gubernatorial candidate Jerry Kilgore railed against what he termed the “largest tax increase in Virginia history” as the centerpiece of his message to Virginia voters, and snatched defeat from the jaws of electoral victory…
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Bad news for Erik Curren, right? That he had only $3,500 in campaign cash on hand in his 20th House District race when you looked at his report on the Virginia Public Access Project website, and his Republican opponent, Dickie Bell, who had only been in the race for a month as of the end…
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced the Commonwealth’s intentions to develop offshore wind resources. Following a multi-year study by the Virginia Coastal Energy Research Consortium, a number of offshore wind developers have contacted the Commonwealth to share their plans to lease federal waters off Virginia to develop wind power.
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine today announced as part of his Renew Virginia initiative a partnership with Dominion Virginia Power to install electric vehicle charging stations at certain state rest areas. These charging stations, installed at no cost to the state, are designed to accommodate most of today’s hybrid electric vehicles and use of the stations…
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Recently, gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell and other Republicans in Virginia (including my opponent) have been saying that we should ask the federal government for permission to let oil companies explore for oil and natural gas off of our coast, an area that has been off-limits to drilling for decades. Supporters say that oil off the…
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At an event Tuesday morning in Virginia Beach, Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor Jody Wagner announced the “Republicans and Independents for Wagner” steering committee. The committee, comprised of twenty-one Republicans and Independents from throughout the Commonwealth, is led by Virginia Beach Mayor Will Sessoms, Fredericksburg Mayor Tom Tomzak, Blacksburg Mayor Ron Rordam, former State Sen….
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Steve Shannon’s campaign for attorney general released the first television ad of the 2009 attorney general’s race today. The ad, which is titled “Focused,” highlights Shannon’s experience as one of the founders of Virginia’s first Amber Alert program, a public safety initiative that uses media to help recover abducted children, as well as his record…
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I’m proud to report that last week the U.S. House passed an amendment I offered to address early childhood education in rural areas as part of the Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act. The legislation creates an Early Learning Challenge Fund, which would award competitive grants to states that implement improvements to the state’s early…
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