Pollard Says School Funding Formula Harms Northern Neck
Immigration Fades as Issue in General Assembly
Martin and Carrico Sponsor Bills to Allow Individuals Who Deliver Government Sponsored Prayers To Express Their Own Beliefs
Valentine Sponsors Legislation to Allow Lynchburg to Provide Tax Breaks to Arts-Based Groups
Base Closings Not Saving as Much as Expected
Perriello Says Schols Fare Well in [...]
Virginia Will Get $5.6 Billion from the Total Obama Stimulus Package
Virginia Senate Says No to Payday Lenders
Obenshain Bill to Privatize ABC Sales Dies in Senate Committee
May Bill Proposes Public-Private Partnerships to Turn Landfills Into Electricity Sources
Orrock Bill Would Create Toll Authority for the Fredericksburg Area
Hampton Roads Anti-Blight Bill Advocates Make Progress in Addressing Property Rights [...]
Lots of state budget talk has focused on the proposed cigarette tax to help fund Medicaid. Examples: “The tax will be paid by a population that increases health care costs for everybody.” Or: “Any tax at this time would be regressive and therefore untenable.”
But it isn’t just about imposing a new tax. It’s about providing [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1. Money, Money, Money…
That’s what the political insiders were talking about this week. Plenty of buzz about the $2 million Bob McDonnell has on hand. Terry McAuliffe raised more in six weeks than either of his Democratic opponents did in six months. And how about Steve Shannon? He is sitting on more than $700,000 in his bid [...]
Governor Kaine’s State of the Commonwealth Address
Kaine Lays Out Plans to Boost Economy in Sober Speech
Republicans’ Reaction to Kaine’s Speech
Supreme Court-General Assembly Feud Delays Reappointment Interviews of Judges
Herring Blocked from Taking Seat after 16 Vote Victory and Filing of Recount Request by Murray
Toscano Files Transit Bills for Charlottesville-Albemarle Area, Including a Tax Bill
Navy Okays Plan to [...]
Last week it was the $1.2 billion uncollected taxes owed to the state. Yesterday it was Senator Obenshain’s call for the privatization of ABC Stores.
Six years after it issued its final report , the Wilder Commission (officially the Commission on Efficiciency and Effectiveness in Virginia State Government ), is making a comeback as legislators look for efficiencies [...]
Want to experience the audio equivalent of deer-in-the-headlights? Call your senator, your congressman, your delegate, your state senator, your delegate, your commissioner, your member of city or town council and ask how the $1 trillion “stimulus” package coming out of Washington sometime around mid-February is going to work, what form it will take, who gets [...]
I watched President Bush’s final news conference this morning and he sent a message about the GOP rhetoric on immigration that was very perceptive and right on target.
In other words, he agreed with what I have been saying about how the issue is playing out politically.
Despite the distinction that many GOP leaders try to make about [...]