Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
Some tax breaks are likely to be shaved along with state spending for services and programs in an austere budget to be presented to legislators later this month, Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Tuesday.
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
The restaurant smoking ban that took effect Tuesday across Virginia is a healthy development - literally - in a state that has revered tobacco since Jamestown's settlers began raising it 400 years ago, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said.
Discriminations (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
According to latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2008 Asians were 4.9% of Virginia’s population, slightly higher than the 4.5% for the nation as a whole. But to Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine and a Washington Post staff writer, they apparently don’t exist. In an article yesterday Michael Allison Chandler reported: Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Tuesday that the Virginia Education...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Tuesday that the Virginia Education Department has launched a study of minority students' low participation in gifted education programs statewide.
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said Tuesday that the Virginia Education Department has launched a study of minority students' low participation in gifted education programs throughout the state.
JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
[JURIST] Convicted DC-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed by lethal injection Tuesday night after Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine rejected Muhammad's request for clemency and refused to suspend the execution. The US Supreme Court on Monday had denied Muhammad's application for a stay of execution and his petition for certiorari, which he filed last week. In denying Muhammad clemency, Kaine...
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Attorneys for John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 sniper attacks in the Washington area that left 10 dead, asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop his execution on Nov. 10. His attorneys say the execution should be put off while the court considers whether his trial lawyer was ineffective. They also have asked Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine for clemency, saying Muhammad is mentally ill...
Oliver Willis (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
Ah, those black Republicans strike again. The billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television apologized Monday for pretending to stutter at a campaign event as she mimicked the Democratic candidate for governor. BET co-founder Sheila Johnson, for years a major donor to President Barack Obama, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and other Democrats, stunned Virginia political observers in July [...]
JURIST (Free subscription) | 09/17/2009
[JURIST] A Virginia court on Wednesday set a November 10 execution date for John Allen Muhammad, who was convicted of murder in 2005 for his role in a series of DC-area sniper shootings. Prosecutors had sought to schedule the execution for Monday, November 9, but Judge Mary Grace O'Brien of the Prince William County Circuit Court moved the date back one day to allow for last minute appeals. Muhammad's...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 09/01/2009
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Bob McDonnell knows his nuts are caught in one tight publicity vise with the emergence of Cro-magnon views in his graduate thesis while he attended Regent University. His campaign is in full-out damage control mode as he held an 80-minute conference call with reporters to respond to the matter, saying some of his views have changed. I bet you can guess which ones haven't....
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 08/07/2009
Three members of the "Norfolk 4" -- sailors serving life in prison for a 1997 rape and murder -- should walk free by Friday after Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine granted them conditional pardons Thursday for crimes to which they all had confessed.
Examiner (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
The mother of a teenager killed in 1997 said Thursday that Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will grant conditional pardons to four former sailors who confessed and were convicted for the crime.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 08/06/2009
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- The mother of a teenager killed in 1997 said Thursday that Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will grant conditional pardons to four former sailors who confessed and were convicted for the crime....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 07/29/2009
BLACKSBURG, Va., July 28 (UPI) -- Family members of those killed or injured in the Virginia Tech massacre urged Gov. Timothy Kaine Tuesday to reinstate a panel that investigated the shootings. A statement signed by 65 victims' families said a report by the investigatory panel appointed by Kaine contains grave errors, misinformation and glaring omissions, The Washington Post reported. We respectfully...
How Appealing (Free subscription) | 07/22/2009
"Va. Special Session Called to Address Testimony Ruling": The Washington Post has a news update that begins, "Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine (D) announced Wednesday morning that he is convening a special session of the General Assembly to respond a...
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