Republicans, here’s your chance.
Joe Murray’s making one hell of a run for Tuesday’s special election in the VA-46. You know, Brian Moran’s old seat. The one Moran bailed on when he realized he needed to spend more time focusing on his race for Governor as opposed to his constituents.
Joe Murray is the Republican candidate and [...]
Tim Kaine’s transportation plan is out and it’s not pretty no matter how you look at it. He proposes imposing an increase in the sales tax in NOVA and Hampton Roads (the same type of increased that was killed by referendum by NOVA voters in 2002), a bump in the tax on car titling and [...]
For those of you keeping track at home, here are the first quarter filings for candidates running for Tom Davis’s open seat in Virginia’s 11th:
Leslie Byrne (D) raised $231k and has $237k on hand
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00440909/332352/#SUMMARY
Gerry Connolly (D) raised $501k and has $422k on hand
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00445452/333752/#SUMMARY
Doug Denneny (D) raised $34k and has $14k on hand
http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00437145/332033/#SUMMARY
Keith [...]
The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority is asking Average Joe’s to do some lobbying work for them:
The cash strapped Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) — especially after the Virginia Supreme Court stripped it of the taxing authority the governor and legislature gave it — is asking residents of the Washington, DC area to make videos of [...]
Snipers force I64 shut down after shooting four cars and injuring two people.
A freight train derailed in Henrico this morning, forcing cancellations affecting more than 600 passengers.
Maybe it’s not NOVA/ROVA but EAVA/WEVA.
Waldo Jaquith has recently started adding Senate video archives to Richmond Sunlight.
The House of Delegates effectively killed Smoking Ban legislation yesterday.
The Virginia GOP Caucus has had a blog pop up recently that attempts to promote the Virginia House Republican Caucus and hold Democrats accountable in ways that Dems have been targeting the VA GOP for a while now: video, insider thoughts and the like. Waldo Jaquith has taken them to task for it, branding it [...]
Hope everyone’s doing alright dealing with these brushfires.