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Columns

  • Reagan’s example lost in today’s GOP

        The recent death of Nancy Reagan brought with it a heavy media concentration on politics and history from the 1980s, reliving the time when her husband was unbeatable at the polls and the Republican Party was a very different institution.
        Nancy, herself, probably set the example for the modern first lady, before Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. She seldom got involved in policy, as Hillary did, but she was the most important person close to the president.

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  • They are going to have to say ‘no’

        I often call the seats the supervisors sit in the hot seats. That’s because they usually must make decisions that will make somebody mad, no matter what they do. This is especially true when the time comes to work out the county’s budget for the year.
        It’s that happy time of the year again and the supervisors are facing the agonizing problem of more requests than they have money to fund. They have $94 million in revenue for the General Fund, but they have $98 million in spending requests.

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  • We must help small companies and startups access capital

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

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  • Budget approval process has new step

    By Senator Steve Newman

        With just one week remaining before its scheduled March 12 adjournment, this week inside Virginia’s Capitol was characterized by a lot of activity and some long debates on the Senate floor.  In great contrast to the 2010 and 2012 budget sessions, both of which ended in budget standoffs that took weeks to resolve, this year’s session is likely to be remembered most for its efficiency in considering and processing legislation.

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  • Fund grants incentives to skills -based curricula

    By Delegate Kathy Byron

        With just one week left in the 2016 session of Virginia’s General Assembly, legislators are wrapping up work on legislation and preparing to approve the new 2016-2018 biennial budget.  The last two times the General Assembly considered a new biennial budget, in 2012 and 2014, impasses lasting weeks resulted in overtime sessions.  Things are moving briskly this year, however.

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  • Bills deal with public education

    By Delegate Terry Austin

        We are one week away from the scheduled end of our 60-day legislative session.  Our time now is devoted to completion of committee work, review of Senate bills sent to the House, follow-up action to gubernatorial vetoes, and the fashioning of amendments to pending legislation.

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  • Texas abortion law should be tossed

        At week’s end, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily blocked a Louisiana law that would basically shut down all abortion clinics in the state but one. This was after hearing arguments for and against a similar law in Texas.
        Some took it as a sign that a majority of the eight justices are poised to strike down the Texas law, one that requires doctors at a clinic to have admitting privileges at a hospital.

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  • A world plunging into chaos

        Whoever or whatever ends up being elected in November, the new president will face a world that’s increasingly plunging into chaos. Some of this chaos is Barack Obama’s fault, some isn’t.
        There are some things I can’t blame on President Obama, the Zika virus being on of them.

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  • Rebuilding from the storm’s destruction

    By Congressman Robert Hurt

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  • Preserving sportsmen’s heritage

    For many families in the Sixth Congressional District, sitting down at the dinner table is welcome ground for an old tale of a past hunting or fishing trip. Whether it’s a love of the sport, or simply spending time in the great outdoors, hunting, fishing, and recreational shooting are traditions shared by the young and old. Ensuring that these activities are available to share with future generations is an important part of our heritage as Americans.

     

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