When Jim Webb’s op-ed was published in The Wall Street Journal, State Senator Donald McEachin praised Jim Webb for authoring a provocative article that could focus attention on what was needed to provide equal opportunity for all.
Doug Wilder was highly critical of Webb’s position, but most of the state’s prominent Dems- Warner, Kaine, and Scott- were [...]
1. Webb v. Diversity: The Timing Question
Jim’s Webb’s op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Friday morning calling for an end to diversity programs and attacking the “myth” of white dominance will have everybody talking (for quite some time). In particular, why did Webb pick this moment to recycle a stance he took in 2006 to [...]
1. Soering Stays
U.S. Attorney General Holder announced this week that convicted murderer Jens Soering will not be released to Germany and will remain imprisoned in Virginia. Holder’s announcement put an end to the bizarre situation that arose when outgoing Governor Kaine proposed that Soering be transferred to German custody, only to generate a firestorm of [...]
No Emergency Unemployment Benefits for Virginians
McDonnell’s Government Reform Commission Seeks Public Input
McDonnell’s Job Commission Spurs Complaints
NOVA Transportation Group Defers Decision on Giving State Representation on Metro Board
McEachin Forms New PAC to Help Statewide Candidates and Progressive Causes
Tom Davis Calls Cuccinelli Suit “Uphill Case”
Virginia Registered Interstate Trucks Get Break on Inspections
New State Employees Pay Price for Cost [...]
UVA Calls Cuccinelli Investigation Legally Flawed
UVA Says Cuccinelli Subpoena Will Imperil Academia
Urbanski Backed by Warner and Webb for Federal Judgship
Virginia FREE and League of Conservation Voters Grade Legislators
Gulf Spill Gives Lawmakers Second Thoughts on New Policy
Virginia Gun Rights Groups Cheer High Court Ruling
McDonnell Noncommittal About Demand to Investigate Vets Group
Returned Political Donations from US Navy [...]
1. Cantor the Big Winner?
That’s what people close to the House Minority Whip have been saying about Tuesday’s GOP primaries. This is one instance where the spinmeisters are right. Cantor endorsed Hurt, Fimian, Wittman and Rigell, winners all. He also, I might add, helped to recruit Morgan Griffith to taken on Rick Boucher. More than that, [...]
Officials Balk at Renaming Town After Pitcher
Cuccinelli Urges Judge to Let Health Care Suit Proceed
Fierce GOP Primary to Take on Connolly
2nd District GOP Primary Today
1st District GOP Primary Today
Sunny Skies Forecast in Hampton Roads for Election Day
Virginia Democratic Party Presses Malek Concerns
Saslaw Says Democratic Attacks Against Malek a Mistake
Several D.C. Area Hospitals Do Not Have [...]
UVA V. CUCCINELLI
UVA v. CUCCINELLI: The University’s Legal Response
Obama Cancels Virginia’s Drilling Plans
McDonnell Says Oil Lease Sales Shouldn’t be Cancelled
McDonnell, Cantor, Bolling Want to Continue to Drill
Drilling Halt Cuts Funds for Transportation
McDonnell Says NC Looking at Tolling I-95
Environmentalists Cheer Obama’s Offshore Driling Decision
Dems Continue to Criticize McDonnell’s Choice of Malek
Staffer Says Cuccinelli Made no Pledge [...]
Genetic Research Venture in Fairfax Falls Apart
Appeals Court Upholds Permit for Coal Fired Plant in Wise
In Allen’s Book, Sport is Allegory for Politics
McDonnell Says He Did Not Know about Malek’s Past
McDonnell Says He Didn’t Know of Malek’s Nixon Work, McEachin Calls It Beyond Belief
Rigell Surveys Says He’s Frontrunner in 2nd District Primary
Fimian Poll Says He’s [...]
MCDONNELL APOLOGIZES
The Apology
Sheilah Johnson Condemns McDonnell
Whipple Takes Criticism National
McDonnell Amends Confederate History Proclamation to Include Slavery
McDonnell’s Original Proclamation
Massey’s Blankenship
Bay Improves But Remains in Poor Health
VDOT Project CVost in Norfolk Nearly Doubles in 7 Seven Years
Henrico Considers Cuts in GRTC Bus Service
Norfolk City Manager Rules Out Increase in Real Estate Taxes
Albemarle Approves Slimmer Budget
C’Ville Unemployment Rate [...]