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'Throttle the poor'? I'm just hoping for a readable budget
If I named a task that can consume my workday, I'd probably say it's scrolling through budgets, agendas, audits, meeting minutes and other materials so dry I sometimes wish they'd spontaneously combust. Those precious pre-deadline minutes can zoom by...
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Paige Winfield Cunningham
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September 9, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Virginia's unemployment overpayments
Maybe Virginia's unemployment funds would have lasted longer if the state hadn't given 15 percent of its payments to unqualified claimants last year. In October 2009, the state's unemployment money ran out and it had to borrow $347 million...
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Paige Winfield Cunningham
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September 2, 2010; 7:00 AM ET |
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Why I put a hold on the Metro oversight bill
Borrowing money we don’t have to spend on regulations we don’t need will not make Metro riders any safer.
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August 16, 2010; 7:45 PM ET |
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When it rains, storm stories flow
By Christine C. Lawrence, Bethesda Regarding the Aug. 13 Metro article “Back-to-back blows smack region around”: At 7:15 a.m. Thursday, I was standing in line with my family and friends visiting from Seattle, waiting to be checked in for a...
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August 13, 2010; 8:27 PM ET |
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Virginia officials weren't whining
Gov. Bob McDonnell, Sens. Mark Warner and Jim Webb and Reps. Randy Forbes and Glenn Nye all seem a bit like whiny children in my Local Blog Network colleague Peter Galuszka's take on their protest of military cuts yesterday....
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Paige Winfield Cunningham
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August 10, 2010; 6:00 PM ET |
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Why is Virginia 'business friendly'?
Virginia scored well in another survey of the best states for business, but it's not all good news.
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July 14, 2010; 11:16 AM ET |
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