Legislators’ Budget Requests Shrink in Hard Times
Cigarette Sales in Virginia Declined After Two Previous Tax Increases
Gear Legislation Would Require Virginia Ports to Open Books on Marketing and Business Development Expenses
Stuart Bill Targets Deadbeat Parents Charged with Crimes
Bills Would Give Hybrids Another Year of HOV Exemption
Environmental Protections Take Hit in Fiscal Crunch
Hampton Roads Hositals Brace for [...]
1. Cantor’s Opening Gambit: Blame the Congressional Democrats
Eric Cantor, the House Minority Whip, gained as much from the GOP’s defeat in November as any other Republican in the country. But the first test for the House’s new point person on budget and fiscal matters is a formidable one. How does he respond to the Obama stimulus [...]
Juggling Two Roles is Kaine’s Third Job
Anti-Smoking Bills Test If Tobacco is Still King
Assembly Members Are Divided on Firearms Legislation
Senate Bill Would Allow Defendants’ Secret Funding Requests
Possibility of Dramatic College Tuition Hikes Worry Legislators
UVA Receives More than 21,000 Applications
Children’s Safety Net in the Balance
This Week’s Votes of Virginia’s Congressional Delegation
Wilder: Obama Inspires U.S. to Move On
Well, the House Privileges and Elections Committee decided where Governor Kaine’s and the Democrats’ election reform agenda was going this year.
Nowhere.
Early voting. Later.
“No Excuses” absentee voting. Sorry.
A bipartisan redistricting commission. Not for this census.
And, Governor, what’s that DNC thing you’re heading?
To its credit, the Privileges and Elections Committee passed two election reform bills that make [...]
House Privileges and Elections Committee Kills Bill Calling for Bipartisan Redistricting Commission
Janis-Alexander Bill Enabling Overseas Military Personnel To Cast Absentee Ballots More Easily Passes House Committee Unanimously
Bob Marshall’s Bill Banning Online Campaign Donations with Prepaid Credit Cards Passes Committee Vote
House Appropriations Gives Icy Reception to Kaine’s Plan to Save $5 Million Through Early Release of [...]
And what they had to say.
Small business advocates lobbied to keep the “dealer discount” they get for administering the state sales tax. Merchants keep three per cent of the total sales tax revenues they collect. For many small business, it may amount to five or six hundred dollars a year, enough to hire a high schooler [...]
House Democrats Join with Senate Democrats in Opposing Kaine’s Education Cuts
State Superintendents Protest Cuts
Chesterfield Superintendent Newsome Says 500 Job Cuts Possible
Fairfax School Board Votes to Ease Grading Policy
Moran Vows To Oppose Coal Fired Power Plant
Ticer’s Bill to Ban Hand-Held Cell Phones While Driving Passes Senate Transportation Committee, Heads to Full Senate
Ingram Bill Making It Easier [...]
The Virginia Public Access Project has now added the downticket races to its posting of the 2008 fundraising reports of the announced candidates for statewide office. For all students of “Donorology,” here’s my attempt to make some sense out of what we’re seeing.
Lieutenant Governor’s Race:
Incumbent Lieutenant Governor Bll Bolling continues to raise money in a consistent manner [...]
Virginia Tech Graduate Student Fatally Stabbed, Suspect Caught
Virginia Expects To Get $700-800 Million Transportation Stimulus
College Presidents Say Significant Tuition Increases Will Be Needed to Compensate for Budget Cuts
Senate Courts Committee Votes to Expand Death Penalty to Murder Accomplices, Faces Test in Full Senate Vote
General Assembly To Consider Ban on Plastic Bags
Smith and Pogge Call [...]
The announcement that Joe Trippi will be joining the Moran Campaign as Media Director confirms the rumor that I first saw reported on Not Larry Sabato last week.
More importantly, it provides further evidence of the kind of campaign that Moran will be running. We noted last week that Moran’s effort to out-green Deeds and McAuliffe [...]