Dec 31, 2009
Fiscal accountability is critical to good government, yet Virginia’s budget cycle diminishes accountability and heightens the difficulty of making good budget decisions. Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell has proposed a good solution: Create a different budget cycle.
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell hopes to change the way Virginia develops its two-year budget.
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For charter schools to be successful in Virginia, there must be a bipartisan initiative. Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell toured Patrick Henry School during his campaign and has made improving our state’s charter school law and increasing charter schools in Virginia a top priority during his service as our commonwealth’s 71st governor.
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NBC12 sat down with the governor-elect today for a wide ranging interview on a number of topics.
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Governor-elect Robert F. McDonnell has named former Prince William County Chairman Sean T. Connaughton as the new state Secretary of Transportation.
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell today reportedly will name Sean T. Connaughton, a former chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, as secretary of transportation.
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell announced three new members of his cabinet Tuesday, including his pick to steer reforms in how the state manages and funds its roads, rails and ports.
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Governor-elect Bob McDonnell is holding a news conference today to announce additional appointments to his administration.
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Gov.-elect Bob McDonnell almost certainly devoted more of his campaign to promoting higher education than any governor since Mills Godwin, who created the community college system during his first term. The headline number in McDonnell’s plan is an additional 100,000 degrees (or more) from state colleges and universities over the next 15 years.
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Governor-elect Bob McDonnell has just released a statement in which he terms Gov. Timothy M. Kaine’s proposed tax increases “bad economic policy.”
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