Virginia Democrat Mark Warner continues to far outpace his Republican rivals in raising campaign cash for his U.S. Senate bid.
RICHMOND (AP) — Opponents of the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority yesterday asked the Virginia Supreme Court to bar the panel from levying taxes and issuing bonds for regional road projects because voters haven't directly elected its governing board.
The multibillion-dollar transportation plan Virginia lawmakers approved earlier this year is a constitutional train wreck that sells out the party's basic tenets of low taxation and less government, a group of Republicans says.
RICHMOND (AP) — Anti-tax conservatives yesterday filed the broadest legal challenge yet to Virginia's new transportation funding law, targeting the fiscal underpinning of the $1 billion-a-year initiative.
The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority last night passed a package of local taxes and fees that could generate $300 million a year for road and rail projects, despite public challenges on whether the board has the legal power to do so.
The Northern Virginia Transportation Authority last night passed a package of local taxes and fees that could generate $300 million a year for road and rail projects, despite public challenges on whether the board has the legal power to do so.
Virginia lawmakers are establishing a commission to investigate the effects of illegal aliens on the state, as a result of their frustration with Congress' inability to agree on a comprehensive federal policy.
