The state of Virginia is heading for a shortfall of between $200 million and $300 million in budgeted revenues this fiscal year. With only a month and a half in the year left to go, the Kaine administration will have to move quickly to decide where to pare spending. Del. Vincent F. Callahan Jr., R-Fairfax,…

Andrea Hopkins with the Bristol Herald-Courier profiles Del. Chris Saxman, R-Staunton, and his Quixotic crusade to promote school choice in Virginia’s public school system. He has submitted school-choice legislation every year for the past four years, and each time, he’s gone down to defeat. But this year, the Axman got closer than ever before. Writes…

OK, blog junkies, the big Virginia blogging event of the year is fast approaching: Blogs United in Hampton Roads is organizing a statewide bloggers conference, scheduled for July 13-15 at Christopher Newport University. Although the conference is organized by, and geared to the interests of, bloggers, it is open to the public. Sponsorship opportunities are…

Talk about embarrassing. The word “Capitol” was misspelled on four glass doors at the new underground entrance to the refurbished Virginia statehouse. The letters “i” and “t” had been transposed, spelling “Captiol.” The contractor will replace the signs at no cost to taxpayers. “It’s a warranty mistake; a tradesman’s error, “Rick Volz of Gable Signs…

The University of Richmond’s Thad Williamson and I have our first in a monthly series of Agree to Disagree columns now online at Richmond.com. The topic is the War and what the nation’s course should be.

In the long, hard slog in the march to freedom — Bacon’s Rebellion (the original one), the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the struggle against Jim Crow and massive resistance — there has never been a monument erected to honor Virginia’s leaders of the Civil Rights movement. That’s about to change. Renderings were unveiled Monday…

Today’s Daily Press reports (“Shutdown of Williams campaign requested”, May 15, 2007) that the 1st Senatorial Legislative District Committee de-certified Sen. Marty Williams as a candidate yesterday. They made one small error. The paper says I voted to de-certify Marty Williams. In fact, I didn’t have a vote – I was the secretary. Full Disclosure:…

The May 14, 2007, edition of the Bacon’s Rebellion e-zine has been published. Click here to view the e-zine. Don’t miss a single edition — get the e-zine mailed to you directly. Click here for a free subscription. New Kent FermentPete Johns has found a way to make growth to pay for itself: Pay $7,500…

Well, it had to happen sooner or later: State revenues are coming in behind budget. Reports the Associated Press: “With just two months left in the state fiscal year that ends June 30, overall growth came to 3.6 percent compared with the budgeted estimate of 6.5 percent growth.” Revenues have been trailing projections since the…

Newspaper circulations may be declining but viewership of newspaper websites are soaring — growing at nearly twice the rate of the general online audience, according to data released today by the Newspaper Association of America. Reports the association: An average of more than 59 million people (37.6 percent of all active Internet users) visited newspaper…

Do you regard Seung Hui Cho, the Virginia Tech killer, as an aberration? Think again, argues Jonathan Scott, a writer for Black Agenda Report in an essay reproduced in Oread Daily. The deranged loner Cho stands in a long tradition of mass murder and genocide that began with Jamestown. (To read Scott’s brief essay, scroll…

Don has a handy little quiz on the Richmond School Board v. Mayor Wilder follies. You know, before folks get too wonkily agitated about imposing a new tax on city residents to handle water run-off, crab grass, the heartbreak of psoriasis, or whatever fresh crisis confronts River City, they ought to consider what our betters…

It should come as not surprise to anyone that, as Jim Bacon’s 26 April post is titled: there is“Lots of Room for Growth Left in Fairfax County.” The surprise is that the Greater Merrifield re construction effort has stayed on track for so many years. It was decades ago that graduate planning students outlined parameters…

In his column “Missing the Point” (30 April 2007) and in his Blog post “Conservatives Should Embrace, Not Trample, Journey Through Hallowed Ground” (30 April 2007) Jim Bacon appropriately challenges the unfounded spins that has been placed on the Journey Through Hallowed Ground (JTHG) project. These attempts to discredit JTHG are driven by hyper-ideological fantasy…

Below, Jim discusses the possibility that congestion pricing will be introduced in DC. Well, that’s all fine and dandy. But for a real look at how to squeeze cars out of a city, we need look no further than our own River City. Don at Save Richmond collects some choice examples of how Richmond’s great…