{"id":1399,"date":"2004-04-13T11:18:46","date_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/04\/13\/virginia_news_8-2\/"},"modified":"2004-04-13T11:18:46","modified_gmt":"2004-04-13T15:18:46","slug":"virginia_news_8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/04\/13\/virginia_news_8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Shear and Chris Jenkins\u2019 lead in The Washington Post<\/a> sums it up: \u201cVirginia’s lawmakers have not figured out how to spend the state’s money, but they know they can still collect it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joe May begins his candidacy with a credibility problem. I attended a meeting of a Loudoun County school group a few months ago where he let school advocates know that he would favor a \u00bd-cent increase in the sales tax. Now, he opposes it<\/a>. Do we really want for Lt. Gov. a man who can\u2019t keep his word?<\/p>\n

The Hampton Roads Daily Press has a great editorial<\/a> today pointing out that even the anti-tax zealots are conceding that the growth in the state budget over the last several years was in the non-general fund, which is for the most part mandated, and now point to the growth during the \u201cdot-com bubble.\u201d Guess who was governor then? <\/p>\n

The Virginian Pilot says<\/a> the House bill shouldn\u2019t be \u201cthe final word.\u201d Amen.<\/p>\n

Bob Gibson at the Charlottesville Daily Progress points out<\/a> the disingenuous poll by Del. Rob Bell (R-Albemarle County).<\/p>\n

Even the New York Times editorial page<\/a> is weighing in on the Commonwealth’s budget impasse.<\/p>\n

Charlottesville police are asked<\/a> to “cease your practice of detaining African-American men practically at random” for DNA testing. One woman asked police<\/a> if they \u201cwould undergo widespread testing of white men if the rapist were white.\u201d<\/p>\n

Christian college acting like anything but<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The Inspector General position that Warner plans to sign on<\/a> to will cost taxpayers $500,000 a year. (See previous post<\/a>.) The devil will be in the details as to whether it becomes a political football. <\/p>\n

Maybe Attorney General Jerry Kilgore was part of the eavesdropping scandal<\/a> after all. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mike Shear and Chris Jenkins\u2019 lead in The Washington Post sums it up: \u201cVirginia’s lawmakers have not figured out how to spend the state’s money, but they know they can still collect it.\u201d Joe May begins his candidacy with a credibility problem. I attended a meeting of a Loudoun County school group a few months… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}