By Carten Cordell | Virginia Statehouse News
ALEXANDRIA — With their newfound majority, Virginia Republicans want to resurrect a proposal that would tighten voter-identification requirements. The measure failed to clear the state Senate last year.

By Frank Keegan — Virginia’s top legislative fiscal adviser recommends a traditional solution to the $50 billion state pension catastrophe: Lie, cheat and continue to deceive public workers and taxpayers. Politicians have been betraying them for decades anyway.

By Peter J. Smith & Bill McMorris
Old Dominion Watchdog
ALEXANDRIA — Gov. Bob McDonnell‘s proposal to cut or merge several minor departments and boards has drawn criticism from a major labor group for its small scope and cautious optimism from the governor’s conservative base.

“There is not a lot of dollar savings. Most of these reforms are just [...]

By Bill McMorris
Old Dominion Watchdog
President Barack Obama returned to Richmond on Friday to pitch his new $447 billion economic stimulus plan, the American Jobs Act, to the American people.
“I’m an eternal optimist. I’m an optimistic person. I believe in America, I believe in our democracy,” Obama said to a friendly audience at the University of [...]