Author: Steve Haner
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Hospital Tax (No, Assessment!) Central to Budget Dispute At Special Session
I doubt many not directly involved in the ongoing struggle over Medicaid expansion in Virginia have actually read the budget language that is the heart of the argument. So I have set it out below in full. This is language included in the House version but previously rejected by the Senate, creating more than $300…
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Only A Brief Romance After All
The key to Dominion Energy’s successful efforts in the 2018 General Assembly was an alliance with the major environmental advocacy groups who saw several of their key goals achieved by the massive bill: promises of more wind and solar generation and massive spending of ratepayer funds on energy efficiency programs, coupled with weaker cost-benefit requirements…
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Development Grants Performance Data
About ten days ago during a discussion of Virginia economic development programs I posted a link to the annual report of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership, but I knew there was a something out there with even more detailed performance data. In response to a legislative mandate pushed by a former legislator, Jimmie Massie of…