While President Obama looks to boost federal spending on education within Virginia and nationwide, Gov. McDonnell has decided to make catastrophic cuts to education funding within Virginia. President Obama has proposed the following key education investments for Virginia: $1 billion …
A couple of days ago, a particular story caught my eye. In the year 2010, gender discrimination is alive and well in the Olympics of all places. Women ski jumpers have once again been blocked from participating in the Olympics. …
The Commonwealth of Virginia is currently facing a $4.5 billion shortfall in the 2010-2012 biennial budget. All of this is on top of the $7 billion already cut under the prior biennial budget. Information continues to emerge in small doses …
In this economic climate you would think that Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg) has been busy working on bills to bring jobs or relieve traffic within the Fredericksburg region, but no he has chosen to focus his energy on the snowpocalypse …
In case you missed it (given all of our winter weather), the Republican majority on the Stafford County Board of Supervisors repealed the Business, Professional and Occupational License (BPOL) tax on February 2, 2010. I pretty much said that this …
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Unless you have been living under a political rock, everyone should be no doubt aware of a public hearing scheduled for tomorrow to reinstitute the merchants’ capital tax and nix the BPOL tax. Republicans made BPOL a key issue during …
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…or a certain former Stafford County Supervisor named George Schwartz (D-Falmouth) (see Spaceballs). In 2007, Stafford Democrats met with great success at the local level. Dr. Harry Crisp (D-George Washington) and Bob Woodson (D-Griffis-Widewater) defeated their Republican opponents and provided …