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- UPDATED: No Progress - Creeks in the 44th District...
- Former Dixie Pig Owner Passes Away
- Litter In Upper Little Hunting Creek
- Walt Whitman Middle School's 50th Anniversary!
- VRS Changes Part III: Why I Voted No
- VRS Changes Part II: Explaining the Changes
- VRS Changes Part I: How Did We Get Here?
- Interview on The Inside Scoop - CTB, Retirement & ...
- Telegraph Road Interchange Construction Update
- Weekly Column: The Session Ends with Last Minute S...
- 2012 Session Legislative Wrap Up (Minus a Budget)
- Weekly Column: Two Surovell Bills Become Law & Sta...
- Trash Continues to Flow In Little Hunting Creek
- State Budget Misappropriates Money for Foreclosure...
- Richmond Stuck On a Bad Budget
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- Weekly Column: A National Spotlight Shines on Virg...
- General Assembly Honors Maj. Justin Constantine US...
- Weekly Column: National Controversy and the Budget...
- The Counterintuitive Politics of Poverty in Virgin...
- 2012 Session Interview with Cable Reports
- Car Title Lenders Explode on U.S. 1
- **UPDATED** - Black History Month & Mount Vernon's...
- Weekly Column: Bipartisan Transportation Progress ...
- **UPDATED** VDOT Suspends All Secondary Road Repav...
- Mulligan Road Construction Begins!
- Rewriting 400 Years of Virginia Common Law
- Weekly Column: Attacking Tax Evasion While Gun, Ab...
- MWMAA Silver Line Update
- Rising Hope Visits the Capitol
- Weekly Column: Progress on Transportation, Governm...
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January
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- Weekly Column: Legislation Starts to Move & Speaki...
- Demanding Action on Transportation
- The Age of The 44th District's Schools
- 2012 Town Hall Recap
- The Dillon Rule & The Height of Grass
- Weekly Column: New Committees, Redistricting Rocke...
- Weekly Column: My 2012 Agenda: Transportation, Ec...
- Announcing The Amundson Institute!
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