{"id":1543,"date":"2004-02-26T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2004-02-26T18:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/000af36.netsolhost.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/26\/virginia_news_b-3\/"},"modified":"2004-02-26T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2004-02-26T18:03:54","slug":"virginia_news_b-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/26\/virginia_news_b-3\/","title":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA NEWS: Budget Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are three budget plans going through the Virginia General Assembly:  the Governor\u2019s, the House\u2019s and the Senate\u2019s.  Two key issues are whether the House plan actually increases education funding as much as it claims and whether a change in funding teacher retirements may impose harsh financial burdens on localities.  <\/p>\n<p>Ready for upload are several documents the may be of interest:<\/p>\n<p>*A brief <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vml.org\/UP\/UPFeb2704.html#coverst\">summary<\/a> of the bills and retirement funding issue<br \/>\n*A more detailed <a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/vrspaper_.doc\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>summary<\/a> of retirement funding issue<br \/>\n*<a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/briefing_re_sb_30.pdf\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>Briefing<\/a> of Finance Committee to its members this morning<br \/>\n*<a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/compare_gov_hse_budgets.doc\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>Comparison<\/a> of House and Governor\u2019s plan.  (From an anonymous but reliable source).<br \/>\n*<a href=\"<a href=\"http:\/\/commonwealthcommonsense.typepad.com\/commonwealthcommonsense\/why_yes_to_sb_301.doc\">Download file<\/a>&#8220;>Why Vote Yes to the Senate Plan<\/a>.  (From an anonymous but reliable source).<\/p>\n<p>I am awaiting a comparison of House and Senate Plans by the Committee. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three budget plans going through the Virginia General Assembly: the Governor\u2019s, the House\u2019s and the Senate\u2019s. Two key issues are whether the House plan actually increases education funding as much as it claims and whether a change in funding teacher retirements may impose harsh financial burdens on localities. Ready for upload are several&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/2004\/02\/26\/virginia_news_b-3\/\">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\/1543"}],"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=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/griendling.com\/wordpress1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}