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General Assembly Report by Rob Bell One of the General Assembly’s biggest jobs in 2008 is to craft the two-year budget that will begin on July 1. This year, the economic slowdown – especially in the housing industry – has meant that revenue is $1.4 billion below projections. Although the overall budget is increasing slightly,…
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Column by Steve Landes In last week’s column, I mentioned how many bills we had to process before the midpoint of the General Assembly session, commonly referred to as “crossover,” on Feb. 12. In just one day, Monday, Feb. 11, the House considered more than 200 bills. In order to complete this task, we began…
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Stop the Presses column by Chris Graham [email protected] The first thing that caught my attention regarding the news of the tragic shootings at Northern Illinois University yesterday – how quiet the media seemed to be about the whole thing. Remember the wall-to-wall coverage of the shootings at Virginia Tech that commenced pretty much as the…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] I look at the voter turnout in Tuesday’s presidential primaries here in the Central Shenandoah Valley, the breadbasket of the Virginia GOP, and have to wonder about the fall elections. It was a bare majority, but still a majority, of voters who voted the Democratic primaries in Greater Harrisonburg and…
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Winners and Losers column by Chris Graham [email protected] Sorry, Senator … You’re going to have a hard time in November here in Virginia. No doubt about it. And you know why. What … do I have to spell it out? OK, here goes. I live in the reddest part of Virginia, maybe of the entire…
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General Assembly Report column by Del. Ben Cline Crossover week is the midpoint of this year’s 60-day General Assembly session when all House bills must “crossover” to the Senate, and vice versa. The week culminated in crossover day on Monday, which was the longest floor day of the session. While we have grown more efficient…
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Story by Scott German Virginia seemed the perfect opponent for weary, bruised North Carolina, having lost six in a row, four by margins of 10 points or more. The Cavaliers had a completely different thought in mind, however, in welcoming the Tar Heels to their first-ever visit to John Paul Jones Arena.
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] Growing pains come when they come. For me, it was when I hit the age of 12. I’d cry all night, my legs hurt so bad that summer – when I grew from 4-10 to 5-8. For Dave Leitao, the growing pains have come a bit later in life. “It’s…
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Story by Chris Graham [email protected] After suffering back-to-back losses, Virginia Tech basketball coach Seth Greenberg is only going to complain so much about a few days off. Well, there is something that Greenberg could complain about. “It’d be a great time to have a week off if we didn’t have to play Carolina at the…
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It’s ACC Basketball Monday here at The SportsDominion – and we have interviews with Virginia Tech coach Seth Greenberg and UVa. coach Dave Leitao to prove it!
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