Adam Rhew of NBC29 in Richmond sat down with five Virginia governors: Current governor Tim Kaine, and former governors Linwood Holton, Doug Wilder, George Allen and Jim Gilmore. The men talk about a number of issues, including use of the new media and a two-term governor.
It is not often that Virginians get the opportunity to [...]

The saga of Newport News Delegate Phil Hamilton has the blogosphere scratching its collective heads on what should be done with the General Assembly. The body, considered “the oldest continuous law-making body in the New World,” is a part-time affair, meeting in the winter months.
I have long advocated for a full-time legislature, most recently in [...]

I ran across an interesting article entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online.” As it turns out, the title is that of a book written by danah boyd, a social media researcher and this article was posted by boyd herself based on a talk she gave at the Personal Democracy Forum on June 30.
The overall [...]

TPM Reports on Spakovsky’s Return by Zachary Roth
Hans von Spakovsky is likely to be confirmed to a volunteer post on a commission that advises the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), along with a attorney who is a member of the Republican National Lawyer’s Association, to serve on the State Advisory Committee for Virginia.
Spakovsky has [...]

Two quotes.  From this article.  Which you absolutely should read.
Fourteen million dollars.
That is what [Goldman Sachs] paid in taxes in 2008, an effective tax rate of exactly one, read it, one percent. The bank paid out $10 billion in compensation and benefits that same year and made a profit of more than $2 billion – [...]

Nice:
For $25,000 to $250,000, The Washington Post is offering lobbyists and association executives off-the-record, nonconfrontational access to “those powerful few” — Obama administration officials, members of Congress, and the paper’s own reporters and editors.
The astonishing offer is detailed in a flier circulated Wednesday to a health care lobbyist, who provided it to a reporter because [...]

Senator Mark Warner joined Creigh Deeds today to announce the formation of “Business Leaders for Deeds,” a bipartisan group which will be lead by Ted Leonsis of McLean. Leonsis is the owner of the Washington Capitals.
The press release (below the fold) includes the names of members – so far – of this steering committee. The [...]

From a news release distributed by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, noting that the post-election protests in Iran had dominated the news early last week before the Mark Sanford story and the death of Michael Jackson began to fill the headlines and airwaves:
From the time it was announced Jackson had died through the end [...]

James Ridgeway of unsilentgeneration has a very good article out tonight about the state of the health care reform we were promised. It is an eye-opening look at how centrist Democrats are undermining the public option and other good parts of the original plan. The latest? Health Co-ops.
True to this spirit of bipartisanship, the co-op [...]