By Dan McDermott The Lynchburg Times and McDermottReport.com LYNCHBURG – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama is holding military families hostage in his budget battle with House Republicans and said that potential Republican rival Donald Trump’s newest show is ‘being Apprentice Candidate.’ Speaking at The Awakening 2011 conference at Liberty University on [...]
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By Dan McDermott LYNCHBURG — Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell spoke to reporters Wed. March 30 at a ribbon cutting in Lynchburg just one day after Senate Democrats and House Republicans released their respective plans for new legislative lines in the Commonwealth. The senate plan groups four Republicans into two senate districts. In one case, Sen. [...]
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[Note: This is part of the 'best of' series from my newspapers. This was a terrific piece by Rich Griset that we used to launch our third newspaper in 2010.] By Rich Griset Capital News Service State Delegate Lacey Putney is in no rush. It’s not that he isn’t busy, because as the chairman of the [...]
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Yep. He’s running. Tim Kaine for Senate. That’s the analysis from UVA political scientist Larry Sabato. Earlier today, a University of Richmond student called WINA radio and said that two of his friends were in a class Kaine teaches on Mondays and that Kaine said he would be seeking the Democratic nomination for Senate. Then [...]
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The Associated Press said they have filed lawsuits seeking unspecified damages against Nordstrom, Urban Outfitters and Zumiez for selling T-shirts with the famous Barack Obama HOPE image. AP says the image was taken from a 2006 photo of then-Senator Obama at the National Press Club. The HOPE design was created by artist Shepard Fairey who [...]
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By Paige Winfield Cunningham ALEXANDRIA — Over reliance on government contractors is wasting tens of billions of dollars spent on overseas wars, say members of a federal commission established at the prompting of Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va. The Commission on Wartime Contracting recently completed an investigation into waste, fraud and abuse of the $177 billion spent [...]
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BY MICHAEL NOYES HELENA – Currently motorists in Montana can take the written drivers license test in Russian, Chinese, Spanish or English. A new law before the legislature proposes the written test be given in English only. A hearing on House Bill 302 was held on Thursday afternoon in front of the Senate Highways and [...]
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By Tracy Kennedy Capital News Service RICHMOND – Three people huddled around a painted map of Virginia that hung on a wall in a meeting room in the Capitol. A young man gestured animatedly toward certain counties and legislative districts while his audience nodded in approval. “And what did you do with Roanoke?” Judy Ford [...]
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