My latest op-ed appeared in Wednesday's Virginian-Pilot. The original story about Steve and Patricia Orr, which partially prompted the piece, can be found here. Should you ever find the need to submit a FOIA request to your local government, try visiting the city or county website. When I searched, all of the Hampton Roads cities … Continue reading FOIA: Ensuring that government sees sunshine
A couple of quick notes on some Hampton Roads races, courtesy of PilotOnline tweets. First up, the 6th Senate District: http://twitter.com/#!/PilotOnPolitics/status/75993140317786112 This confirms what I've been hearing. Former Congressional candidate Ben Loyola, who lost to Scott Rigell for the Republican nomination last year, is poised to obtain the nod. Word is that he has to … Continue reading Loyola, Northam, Blevins, Cosgrove
Delegate Robin Abbott, the current representative of the 93rd district, announced Thursday evening that she will be running in the newly drawn 93rd district. Redistricting drew the first-term Democrat into the 94th, currently represented by Republican Glenn Oder. >" /> The press release: Delegate Robin Abbott Will Run in New 93rd House of Delegates District … Continue reading Del. Abbott to run in new 93rd
My latest op-ed appeared in The Virginian-Pilot Wednesday. (Once again, I have to say the newspaper presentation was much better than the website.) Richmond Sunlight is not new to those of us who follow the General Assembly closely. Although I did not have my own portfolio this year, there were several public portfolios that I … Continue reading ICYMI: Tracking your legislators with ease
A few things you may have missed: OMG Norfolk - seems the Community Services Board hired a new CFO without doing a background check. (And it seems the headhunters they hired didn't do one, either.) The man had a felony conviction in 1982. Have to say that is not what bothers me - after all, … Continue reading Quick links 05/21/11
Speaker of the House William Howell announced Wednesday that Delegate Watkins Abbitt would not seek re-election for a 14th term.
No, it's not Friday afternoon. But it is Take Out the Trash Day, at least according to LloydTheIdiot at Too Conservative. He has an interesting post about ten things we should throw out. His list is good - and already contains some of the items I would have listed, although in a slightly different order. … Continue reading Taking out the trash
I am sure that the practice of only taking parts of someone's article that you like and publicizing it to your advantage is not new. In fact, everyone does it at some point or another. This time, it is an example of our new Congressman, Robert Hurt (R-05) doing this, and leaving out his own … Continue reading Selective Bragging
Christina Nuckols is leaving The Virginian-Pilot to become editorial page editor at The Roanoke Times. In her latest column, printed in Sunday's paper, she muses about her 14 years covering Virginia politics in Richmond. And slips in this gem: Too many of my 14 legislative sessions have ended without anyone stopping to ask, "What did … Continue reading ICYMI: Nuckols nails the GA
Have we become a one-party country? One of the advantages - or disadvantages - of being a student of history is that I get a sense of the way things were and how things could be different today. Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the modern day Democratic Party and how, despite efforts to … Continue reading What happened to the Democratic Party?
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