Virginia Politics Information Directory

News items include the Virginia House vote to block an employee antidiscrimination measure, the State Senate vote on charter schools, congressional pay.

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Brian Kirwin is a political consultant and public relations strategist in Virginia Beach with a lightning-rod flair. Brian also serves on the VB Arts & Humanities Commission and frequently appears on Hampton Roads theatrical stages, ...

Richmond: House kills nonpartisan redistricting - DC News: Webb, Warner applaud Keenan confirmation.

The nation's governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama's campaign to raise academic standards across ...

WASHINGTON – Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty fight over health care. But more than half still back President Barack Obama , a bright spot for a Democratic Party counting on its leader to help ...

The latest Associated Press-GfK poll found that fewer people approve of Congress than at any point ... They're always stalling, playing politics, trying to jockey for a better position for their own re-election." In recent weeks, Obama has ...

President Obama blamed Washington's obsession with keeping score in politics for the uphill battle his health care legislation has faced. Bill Plante reports. (AP) Americans have come to detest Congress ever more deeply as it nears the end of a nasty ...

She argues that individuals should be free to sell their organs, and that encouraging organ markets may be the best way to save the lives of the more than 100,000 Americans currently awaiting transplants. A 2009 article Postrel wrote for the Atlantic ...

Senators are retreating somewhat on fattened court fees to help balance Virginia's recession-wracked budget, but delegates aren't impressed. Ahead of the General Assembly's scheduled Saturday adjournment, the 13 budget negotiators missed their first ...

Before Rep. Nancy Pelosi became speaker of the House, she promised during the Bush administration that if voters allowed Democrats to regain a congressional majority Democrats would establish "the most ethical Congress in history." Pelosi pledged to ...

PAWTUCKET — With the fallout continuing from information that came out of a preliminary audit report, School Department officials are defending their fiscal and management practices as being sound. They go one step further and maintain that the ...

After all South Carolina is putting the “log” in Log Cabin Republican, isn’t it? “Deliverance-style,” in fact. But since this latest rumor is beginning to percolate on various small-time political blogs (as well as on our comment board here ...

And now the House Democrats line up at the instruction of their blind commanders for a final charge into glory as they battle to foist a health care system on a country that neither wants it nor can afford it. The charge may or may not reach its ...