McDonnell Inspects Gloucester Tornado Damage
Governor Chides Senate on Redistricting
Saslaw Expects Federal Judge to Take Over Redistricting
House Passes Tweaked Redistricting Legislation
Assembly Postpones Redistricting Debate
GOP Has Cash Edge in Legislative Elections
Allen Advocates Flat Tax Option
Unlike DNC, Kaine Will Accept Money from PACS, Lobbyists
Virginia Social Service Commissioner Advises Against Adoption Changes
Prince William Human Rights Commission Asks County to [...]

Uranium Next Test for Green Politics
CNU Poll Shows Virginians Concerned about Environment
Post-Recession: Virginia Paying More Per Job in Incentives
Warner on Face the Nation
Warner Says Gang of Six May Touch Social Security
Hurt Completes First 100 Days
U.S. Budget Cuts Hit High Speed Rail Money: Virginia Money Intact
W&M Tuition to Increase by 7.7%
Study Shows Beach Red Light Cameras [...]

Every year or so for the past twenty-five, I’ve tried to subscribe to the “world’s greatest newspaper” (italics not mine, theirs, but a true description, too).  
I’ve taken the “introductory offer” (italics mine) bait every single time, or tried to, and every single time I’ve been spurned:  “Same day delivery not available in this Zip Code.” 
I [...]

1. Collision Course
We should have seen it coming.
Dick Saslaw telling the audience at the JJ dinner that people were coming up to him all the time and saying “Thank God for the Virginia Senate.”
Janet Howell’s observation that the Governor is, at heart, a “zealot” on social issues.
And Lieutenant Governor’s Bill Bolling recent advice that the [...]

McDonnell Vetoes Redistricting Bill
McDonnell Sends Assembly Back to the Drawing Board
McDonnell Sets Up Showdown with Senate
Saslaw Says Senate Dems Won’t Surrender on Redistricting
Stanley Hopes Senate Goes Back to Drawing Board
Cuccinelli Says That Some State Payments to Charities were Unconstitutional
Cantor Faults Warner’s Deficit Reduction Plan for Tax Stance
 Public Hearings Set for Proposed Electric Rate Increases
Poff Building [...]

McDonnell Says No New Taxes
State Tax Revenues Increase
Cuccinelli Unveils Plan to Keep Prescription Drugs Out of Virginia Waterways
Kilgore to Take Key Role in Pawlenty Campaign
GOP Frosh Vote Against Spending Bill
Goodlatte Votes to Avert Shutdown
Senate Plan Would Shift Forbes’ District Away from Base
Webb Loses State Director
Allen Touts Endorsements
Toscano To Seek Re-election
Tito the Builder Considers Assembly Run
JFCOM [...]

Republicans Hit Kaine After Obama Speech
Long Shot Alternative to Kaine
Dueling Congressional Maps
CNU Report Says New Legislative Districts Would be Worse Than Old
Senate Dems Respond to Prince William County and NAACP Redistricting Attack
Civil Rights Group Says Proposed Prince William Magisterial Boundaries Would Dilute Minority Voice
Gay Groups Press McDonnell on Regs for Adoption, Fostering
Cuccinelli Says Adoptions Regs [...]

Attorney Floats Compromise on the 10 Commandments
McDonnell Invites Obama to Celebrate Sequicentennial in VA
Bolling Endorses Allen
Kaine, Allen Back Budget Deal, Radtke Opposed
Allen Backs Budget Deal, Grudgingly
Senate Candidates on Debt Ceiling
Allen Raises $1.5M
Trump Backs Cuccinelli on Health Care Review
House, Senate Advance Competing Congressional Maps
Why Dems Want Roanoke in the 9th
Dems Put Lynchburg in 5th Congressional District
Stewart [...]

Hudson Rules Hamilton’s Emails with Wife Can Be Used in Trial
House, Senate Okay Legislative Lines, Next Stop Governor
Dems Would Put Forbes in Majority-Minority District
Scott Backs Senate’s Influence District Proposal
Senate Map Puts Roanoke in 9th
Stewart Blasts Dems State Senate Redistricting Plan
Phillips Expected to Retire, Shuler Won’t Run
Warner, Chambliss Warn Against Growing U.S. Debt
Radtke Challenges Allen on [...]

Cantor Says Obama Dragged to Table on Spending
McDonnell Presses Social as Well as Fiscal Issues
Kaine at W&M: Dems Must Stick to Principles
Lawmakers Eye Congressional Maps
HPV Vaccine Law Raises Questions
Criminal Prosecutions Soar in Rent to Own Sector
WHRO Skirts Budget Cutters’ Knives
Madison Budget Backlash Builds