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A dozen states join Cuccinelli to fight EPA

By Seth McLaughlin RICHMOND—A dozen Republican and Democrat attorneys-general have joined Ken Cuccinelli in his fight against the Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of greenhouse gases. “Attorney General Bruning of Nebraska is circulating a motion to intervene on our side of the case,” the Virginia Attorney General Cuccinelli told The Old Dominion Watchdog during an interview in his office on Friday. ...
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Reopened rest areas attract travelers—and expenses

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 17, 2010
By Paige Winfield Cunningham Lloyd Gordon got busier at work last week. As of March 8, he’s back to overseeing four northern Virginia rest stops. He’d only been looking after two truck stops since last July, after former Gov. Tim Kaine ordered 19 rest stops closed around the state—two of which were areas under his supervision. But now, [...]Read More>>

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Donations to Virginia government remain low

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 15, 2010
Virginia coffers hold $1,500 of taxpayer generosity this year. As disputes rage in Richmond over proposed fees to balance the troubled state budget, some citizens want to send even more than they have to into a fund that collects voluntary giving to the state. But not many. Contributions to the “Tax Me More Fund” have hovered between $1,000 [...]Read More>>

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HOV privileges for hybrids in jeopardy

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 11, 2010
RICHMOND–Privileges for Virginia hybrid drivers will likely be renewed, but officials say the special treatment won’t last forever. The general assembly re-authorized legislation allowing drivers of specified hybrid vehicles to use the high occupancy vehicles lanes in the northern Virginia and Hampton Roads areas, as it’s done every year since the program began. The HOV lanes [...]Read More>>

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Gun-a-Month Law Could Fall Into Supreme Court’s Crosshairs

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 11, 2010
By Seth McLaughlin RICHMOND–This year’s push to lift Virginia’s gun-a-month law appeared to be dead in the water this week after lawmakers shot down a proposed repeal. But that might not be the case. Gun-rights activists and some lawmakers, lawyers and legal scholars say Virginia’s handgun-a-month statue could come under additional fire this year should the U.S. Supreme [...]Read More>>

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Virginia lawmakers banking on federal funds

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 11, 2010
By Seth McLaughin RICHMOND– A sizable slice of Virginia’s new two-year budget could depend more on lawmakers inside Congress than their counterparts inside Virginia’s Capitol. That’s because the enhanced Medicaid match provided to the states through the federal stimulus program is scheduled to  expire on Dec. 31, 2010 – the middle of Virginia’s fiscal year. Congress raised the federal matching [...]Read More>>

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Blog & Analysis

Happy Sunshine Week

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 16, 2010
As I read my IRE newsletter this morning over breakfast, it reminded me that this week is Sunshine Week–when we celebrate or bemoan government transparency and accountability, or the lack thereof. In honor of the week, the nonprofit wiki Sunshine Review has ranked state, county, city and school district Web sites on how much information they [...]Read More>>

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Tax Me More Test

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010
Cutting a little here, raising fees a little there, it will all add up to a balanced budget, officials hope. Except this bill would raise fees by a lot…to the highest in the nation, in fact. The highest lawsuit filing fee would raise from $160 to $1,000. Read More>>

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Tax Me More Test

Posted by admin on March 15, 2010
Cutting a little here, raising fees a little there, it will all add up to a balanced budget, officials hope. Except this bill would raise fees by a lot…to the highest in the nation, in fact. The highest lawsuit filing fee would raise from $160 to $1,000. Read More>>

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Cut a little money here, spend a little there

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on March 1, 2010
Cutting a little here, raising fees a little there, it will all add up to a balanced budget, officials hope. Except this bill would raise fees by a lot…to the highest in the nation, in fact. The highest lawsuit filing fee would raise from $160 to $1,000. If Republicans want to save some money, they could [...]Read More>>

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Transportation projects drag

Posted by Paige Winfield Cunningham on February 23, 2010
From the beginning, Virginia has been one of the slowest states to put stimulus money to work. One year into the stimulus, Virginia has used about $300 million to create 454 jobs related to transportation projects. That counts for about half of the state’s total allotment. Since 81,000 Virginians are on unemployment, that doesn’t seem to [...]Read More>>

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