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reached an agreement to close the revenue gap in the two-year state budget that took effect July 1. It will mean less money than expected for almost everything except K-12 education. The deal, expected for action by the General Assembly during this week’s special session, reduces state spending by about 3.5 percent and relies mostly on cuts in new spending and money from the state’s Rainy Day Fund. It leaves a $272 million shortfall in the second year that the governor and legislators will need to work through in the session that
begins in January. “This is how we get things done,” said Del. Tag Greason (R-32), a House budget conferee who represents the Ashburn area. “It was a bipartisan approach with the governor, legislators, Republicans and Democrats just sitting down and saying ‘how are we going to solve the problem?” Talks of finding a compromise started among leaders of the two chambers and the governor a month ago, as soon as new state revenue numbers came out last month show-
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wo months after the fight over Medicaid almost threatened to leave Virginia without an approved budget in time for the start of the fiscal year, lawmakers crossed political lines this week to hammer out a deal to address the state’s $2.4 billion revenue shortfall. Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) and General Assembly leaders announced Monday that they
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books were given away. Two hundred visitors got haircuts and 400 got flu shots. Everyone left with a load of giveaways, including a bag of groceries—more than 17 tons of groceries in total. The Missouri-based Convoy of Hope was founded in 1994 and has provided services to more than 65 million people, while targeting assistance for to those who are impoverished, hungry and hurting. n
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at the Shenandoah Building on Heritage Way. The army of volunteers was hoping to serve 5,000 residents during this year’s event. Although the wet weather drenched those hopes, the event still served 3,025 guests—up from last year. Those who attended were treated to a free lunch, live music, a wide variety of employment and health services and children’s games. More than 1,400 pairs of shoes and 2,000 children’s
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lthough rain dampened some of the activities planned as part of Saturday’s Convoy of Hope event in Leesburg, a steady stream of residents moved through stations set up by community volunteers offering everything from dental exams to family portraits. It was the second year area businesses, churches, government agencies and nonprofit organizations teamed up to organize the event
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Mountains of groceries—more than 17 tons of groceries in all—were distributed to families as part of Saturday’s Convoy of Hope event in Leesburg.
eanette Irby is expected to be approved as Loudoun County Circuit Court’s newest judge during the General Assembly’s special session this week. Irby, who has served as Leesburg’s town attorney since 2007, was the only candidate on the docket to be interviewed for the position by the Senate Committee for Courts of Justice and the House Judicial Panel Wednesday. Both chambers of the assembly are slated to approve her appointment, along with more than 30 others, by Friday. There have been whispers in the law community that Irby was Loudoun Bar’s and Loudoun’s state delegation’s top pick for the bench seat, held by Judge Thomas D. Horne for 31 years before he retired last December. But it was only made public when her name was listed on the schedule for
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