Del. Kris Amundson on Fairfax County’s appalling decision to bar giving the homeless home-cooked meals.
Category Archives: Virginia Politics
HB 1422: Mandating vocational classes.
Delegates Dave Nutter (R-Montgomery) and Bill Carrico (R-Grayson) are co-patroning HB 1422: Standard diploma; requirements to include one concentration in career and technical education. This is a bill that makes one tiny modification to §22.1-253.13:4D2: In establishing course and credit requirements for a high school diploma, the Board shall: […] Establish the requirements for a …
No charges in Allen assault.
Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Dave Chapman (a Democrat) issued a memo this afternoon recommending that no charges be brought in the Stark/Allen assault (PDF) that happened at The Omni last month. The nut graf: “While several individuals could be charged with one or more misdemeanor offenses such as assault and battery or disorderly conduct it is …
Terry simplifies the narrative of Sen. Allen’s loss.
F.T. Rea: Allen lost because he couldn’t stop saying stupid shit, plain and simple.
Progress on anti-phone-spam legislation.
Bob Gibson on Del. Bob Brink’s proposed anti-robo-call legislation.
Google district map.
Check out Del. Tom Rust’s Google map of his district. What a great little feature. Every representative should have this on their website.
House of Delegates district size deviations.
The 2000 deviation from the ideal, in size, of each House of Delegates district, ordered from most to least ideal. In 2000, 30% of House of Delegates districts were within 5% of their ideal size of 70,785. Forty five percent were 10% or more away from their ideal size. Fifty nine percent were too small, …
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Interview with Bob Gibson.
The Hook interviews Bob Gibson who, to my surprise, believes that I would be the person most fit portray to him in the movies. I’d be happy to take the part. Anyhow, it’s a good read for those who aren’t familiar with Bob.
Conaway gone away.
Conaway’s taking a little blogging break.
On the decline of Virginia political blogging.
I must call attention to Norm Leahy’s brief look at Jim Webb’s economic outlook and what to make of those thoughts. A year and a half ago this would have been standard fare for the Virginia political blogosphere — a brief, thoughtful attempt by a member of one party to persuade members of the other …
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