Cuts include:

• 567 layoffs
• Delayed raises for state workers
• Close Pulaski Correctional Center
• Close Chatham Diversion Center

The cuts will come from layoffs, no bottled water, and fewer dry cleanings for drapes, all to help close the projected $2 billion gap in the state budget

Click here to watch our special “Debate Watch” coverage of Thursday night’s Vice Presidential Debate. 

Celebrity backers of Barack Obama will make
a final push to register new voters this weekend in Virginia, where
polls show the Democrat and Republican John McCain locked in a
tight race for president.

Warner’s lead narrowed by 5% going into Friday’s televised debate

“We feel great and I hope he wins and I can help him in a volunteer way, or give advice or something,” Kaine said. “But no. I’m gonna stay as governor all the way through January 2010.”

While House Republican leaders said publicly they were allowing members to vote their conscience, Rep. Tom Davis III, R-11th, said that behind closed doors leaders were much more aggressive in pushing members to support the bill. 

Armstrong says the Virginia Post-Disaster Anti-Price Gouging Act needs to include language that allows the investigation of oil companies “suspected of selling goods at unconscionable price in Virginia during a state of emergency.”

Election officials stock up on registration forms before the October 6 deadline.

Michelle Obama will host a women’s economic roundtable Wednesday in Richmond.

Del. Terrie L. Suit, R-Virginia Beach, plans to resign from the General Assembly next month to join the government relations team of Richmond-based law firm Williams Mullen.

Gilmore begins TV ad, Warner garners two endorsements

Former state Sen. William E. Fears died this week on the Eastern Shore, which he represented for 24 years in the General Assembly.

“The issue of energy and how we will we provide power for homes, businesses, transportation has gone from a back-burner issue to a front-burner issue—thank goodness,” Kaine told a meeting of the Southern Governors’ Association

Some in the GOP say Wagner “has consistently provided inaccurate and politically motivated revenue estimates that have put Virginia in the budget crisis we currently face.”

After a warning to keep its identity clear, group aims to register thousands of voters

Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling would take over as Governor.  “People would feel comfortable with a Republican in the top spot,” said House Majority Leader H. Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, whose caucus will defend its slender, three-seat advantage next year .

Ninth District Delegate Charles Poindexter says transportation continues to be a top priority

Gilmore rallies Republican leaders

The criticism came for GIlmore vetoing a bill that would have improved benefits for thousands of workers who lost their jobs when a major textile plant closed in Henry County

Republican Senate candidate Jim Gilmore didn’t act like he was 20 points behind in the polls when he campaigned Tuesday in Danville

Author John Grisham, best known for writing numerous legal dramas, will be campaigning with fifth district democratic Congressional Candidate Tom Perriello today in Martinsville.

Warner doesn’t excel on a debate stage or with a teleprompter, but he shines in settings like this. He laughed with the group when someone’s cell phone kept ringing. He listened intently to everything they had to say. And, he frequently leaned in to offer a solution or aside.

The first debate of the 2008 Senate campaign was feisty and at times mean spirited. But throughout it a note agreement kept popping up: the need for a comprehensive energy plan. 

The VBA debate at the Homestead Saturday was the first face to face debate ever between former Governors Warner and Gilmore and it was their first chance set the record straight. 

Former Govs. Warner and Gilmore exchanged attack after attack at the hour long debate at the Homestead Resort in Warm Springs, VA.

Gartlan served in the Virginia Senate from 1972 until 2000.

Anticipated revenue shortfall could prompt government layoffs

Policy expanded to include governor’s and Cabinet offices

Warner’s campaign reported raising nearly $3 million in the second quarter