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An "official" fish for Virginia
Dealing as they do with weighty matters, the Virginia House of Delegates on Tuesday conferred the honor of "official saltwater fish" to the striped bass, otherwise known to Southerners as the "rockfish." In many ways, this is cause for...
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Peter Galuszka
| February 23, 2011; 11:10 AM ET |
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Toll mania in Hampton Roads?
Virginia's skin-flint nature has always called for tolls on roads. Now proposals to solve Hampton Roads' special transportation problems could mean more tolls than residents ever imagined possible. Virginia's road and bridge needs total some $100 billion, and the...
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Peter Galuszka
| December 8, 2010; 9:49 AM ET |
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Sink riverboat gambling in Virginia
There's a movement afoot in the Old Dominion to bring in riverboat gambling to help rescue transportation finances. Let's hope it springs a leak. Norfolk City Councilman Paul Riddick thinks that bringing in water-borne gambling palaces would be a...
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Peter Galuszka
| November 19, 2010; 1:10 PM ET |
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Is financing delaying a Va. coal-fired power plant?
The decision by a Henrico County-based electric cooperative to delay a controversial $6 billion coal-fired generating station in Surry County raises questions about whether such monsters can be financed. Old Dominion Electric Cooperative had been on a roll, snagging...
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Peter Galuszka
| September 9, 2010; 4:12 PM ET |
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McDonnell's U.S. 460 dilemma: public money needed
You can slice it. You can dice it. But it all comes back to the same problem -- Virginia's dearth of public money for needed highways. Gov. Robert F. McDonnell has been trying for years to push a replacement...
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Peter Galuszka
| July 26, 2010; 12:30 PM ET |
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Why Stalin mattered to D-Day's success
By Mike Lofgren, Alexandria The June 26 editorial “Stalin, hero of D-Day?,” about the new Stalin bust at the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va., betrayed either historical ignorance or ideological blindness. Joseph Stalin was an unsavory character. But unlike...
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| June 30, 2010; 7:07 PM ET |
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