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General Assembly OKs handgun permit secrecy bill
RICHMOND Legislation keeping the names of concealed handgun permit holders secret is headed to Gov. Bob McDonnell's desk. Sen. Mark Obenshain's bill originally just shielded the names of permit applicants protected by a protective order. The House of Delegates expanded the bill to cover all permit holders. Obenshain, a Republican from Harrisonburg, welcomed the change.
‘Tebow’ home school sports bill sacked in Va. Senate
RICHMOND Down goes Tebow. The bill, that is. Legislation to let home schooled students join public school sports teams was defeated today in the Senate Education and Health Committee, where similar bills have failed in previous years.
Va., N.C., S.C. govs: Reconsider offshore oil, gas
RICHMOND The Republican governors of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are appealing to the Obama administration's choice for interior secretary to open up waters off their states' coasts to gas and oil exploration.
Va., N.C., S.C. govs.: Reconsider offshore oil, gas
RICHMOND The Republican governors of Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina are appealing to the Obama administration's choice for interior secretary to open up waters off their states' coasts to gas and oil exploration.
Bill to widen eligibility for war memorial is nearly law
RICHMOND After five years of frustration as a citizen lobbyist, Rick Schumann sat in stunned wonder Thursday in the gallery of the Virginia House of Delegates.
Millionaires club includes three local politicians
RICHMOND Fifteen of the General Assembly's 140 members - three of them from Hampton Roads and the vicinity - are in the millionaires club, according to an analysis of legislators' investment portfolios. The local trio, all Republicans, are two senators - Jeff McWaters of Virginia Beach and Tommy Norment of James City County - and Virginia Beach Del. Bob Purkey.
Schools struggle to match Virginia for teacher raises
It looked pretty good, at first. The governor announced in December he would back a 2 percent raise for school employees - the first state funds for a teacher pay raise in five years. But now leaders of South Hampton Roads are eyeing that increase warily. They say the state would indeed fund a portion of it, but to get those funds, some cash-strapped localities would have to pay much more.
Currency study becomes something else in Va. Senate
RICHMOND Some of the more colorful legislation to emerge from the Virginia House of Delegates this year is getting watered down, if not outright thrown overboard, in the state Senate.
Committee approves creating Va. nuclear consortium
RICHMOND A House committee this afternoon approved creating a state nuclear energy group, opposed by uranium mining opponents as a back-door effort to further that cause.
Photo ID voting bill moves closer to passage in Va.
RICHMOND A requirement that all Virginia voters present photo identification at the polls moved a step closer to passage today. State Sen. Mark Obenshain’s bill (SB1256) was endorsed by a House subcommittee, 5-1, and now advances to the full Appropriations Committee.
Gov. McDonnell to speak at VMI commencement in May
LEXINGTON Gov. Bob McDonnell is set to give the graduation address at Virginia Military Institute's commencement this spring. The military college in Lexington said McDonnell will speak at the May 16 ceremony in Cameron Hall.
Gov. McDonnell to speak at VMI commencement
LEXINGTON Gov. Bob McDonnell is set to give the graduation address at Virginia Military Institute's commencement this spring. The military college in Lexington said McDonnell will speak at the May 16 ceremony in Cameron Hall.
