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Showing posts with label Budget Cuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Budget Cuts. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Weekly Column: Good News & Bad News in Governor's Amendments

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The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, Springfield Connection, The Prince William Times, The Fort Hunt Hera...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Weekly Column: State Legislature Must Make Tough Decisions

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The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, Springfield Connection, The Prince William Times, The Fort Hunt Hera...
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Monday, February 18, 2019

Weekly Column: Budget Compromise, Child Support Deadbeats & Session End Approaches

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The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, Springfield Connection, The Prince William Times, The Fort Hunt Hera...
Wednesday, September 7, 2016

Weekly Column: Virginia Faces Another Shortfall

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The following is my column that will appear in the Mt. Vernon Gazette, The Mt. Vernon Voice and The Potomac-Stafford Local in the week of...
Thursday, June 12, 2014

Finalizing a State Budget - Not Pretty

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The new proposed amendments to the state budget are now up online.  You can see them here: Proposed Senate Amendments to House Budget ...
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Thursday, March 1, 2012

Richmond Stuck On a Bad Budget

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The press has started to heat up over the budget situation.  I was one of twenty-one delegates to vote "no" on the House Budget ...
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Sunday, February 19, 2012

The Counterintuitive Politics of Poverty in Virginia

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The New York Times ran a story about the geography of the receipt of government payments in the country.  It includes Social Security, Med...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Medicaid on the Chopping Block in 2012?

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The Governor is set to announce his budget sometime in the next ten days.  The word from Richmond is that we have an approximate $1 billion...
Friday, February 25, 2011

Bipartisan Group Legislators Demand Restoration of Metro Funding

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Earlier this week, a bipartisan group of 24 Northern Virginia legislators sent a letter to Virginia's Congressional Delegation demanding...
Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Politifact Agrees House Budget Cuts Education

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Over the last couple days, I've been getting a bunch of emails regarding the House Budget and Fairfax County education funding and there...
Friday, February 11, 2011

$93 Million of K-12 Cuts

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Yesterday, the House of Delegates voted to pass budget amendments proposing to cut over $92 million from the Governor's proposed budget....
Sunday, January 16, 2011

Pitting Higher Education v. Transportation

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When I was a student at JMU from 1989-1993 the country was in the grips of a horrible recession. Governor Wilder was running for President a...
Sunday, December 5, 2010

2011 Budget Preview: Rising Debt & Budget Cuts

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The Senate Finance Committee held a retreat a few weeks ago regarding the current budget situation. You can read the briefings here. 2011 Se...
Saturday, November 6, 2010

VRS Sounds the Alarm

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Last session, the State Budget was balanced in-part by the State deferring about $690 million of retirement contributions and promising to p...
Friday, June 11, 2010

Improving Medicaid Coverage Would Mean More Insured Virginians

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Virginia's Medicaid system covers certain low-income, disabled, elderly, and young people. Medicaid in Virginia system is one of the sti...
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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Medicaid's Chickens Come Home to Roost

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When the General Assembly passed a budget this past session, I voted "No" for a variety of reasons. One of them was because I thou...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Visiting The Northern Virginia Training Center

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Last month, I visited the Northern Virginia Training Center to learn about the Commonwealth's role in caring for our community's d...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Too Many Trailers

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This week, the Washington Post reported that 70% of Fairfax County Public Schools have trailers - 135 schools - and that 14 schools have a ...
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Friday, March 19, 2010

A Balanced Budget Through Salary Cuts & Lower Standards

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Today, the Virginian Pilot reports that Virginia school spending will really be $700 million less rather than the $250 million reduction in...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

Voting No on the State Budget

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Today, the State adopted a Budget that undercuts many of its core responsibilities. I voted No. Here is why. The State has already reduced i...
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