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漏 Gary L Hider 鈥?stock.adobe People I talk to around Waynesboro are excited that Northrop Grumman is bringing a few hundred $90,000-a-year jobs to the local economy.One thing we can hope the people who come to town for those jobs do is help us get rid of the mindset of the do-nothings on City Council who still want to do government-on-the-cheap. I believe the cost is too much, was the reasoning given by Vice Mayor Jim Wood last week to explain why he wasnt on board with the purchase of a building on Broad Street that city officials have targeted as the new home for the city Registrars Office.City Council went on to vote 3-2 to authorize City M
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anager Mike Hamp to execute a purchase agreement for the 501 W. Bro
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ad St. building.Wood and Ward C City Councilman Kenny Lee were the two in the 3-2 vote.To his credit, at least Wood put his backwards thinking on the record; Lee couldnt be bothered to offer his thoughts on
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why he opposed the purchase.Woods backwards thinking is that the purchase price is $232,300 over the assessed value for the property, which he said is a little bit on the too much side. This is from a supposedly free-market Republican who apparently doesnt understand the impact of, for example, location 鈥?the West Broad building is a block away from the city municipal building, and its not like there are other buildings in the vicinity that could accommodate the needs of the Registrars Office 鈥?on the value of that particular building.Its most recent use is by a cre Omhb PPP: Obama leads in Virginia, Ohio, even in N.C., Florida
Today the House Commerce and Labor Subcommittee 3 reported HB1558, sponsored by Del. Kilgore R-Gate City and Del. Bagby D-Richmond , by a vote of 7-2 to the full House Com
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merce and Labor Committee.This bill is purported to end the so-called rate freeze put in place in 2015 but instead radically overhauls the way that monopoly utilities are regulated in Virginia, reducing rather than increasing accountability.In response, Kate Addleson, Director of the Sierra Club Virginia chapter, released the following statement. This bill would allow monopoly utility Dominion Energy Virginia to effectively regulate itself, to the detriment of their customers and Virginias energy future. It would codify and encourage further abuse of corporate power over Virginia electric customers. Dominion is attempting to use its influence over the General Assembly to extend the refund freeze and make it legal to keep hundreds of millions in annual windfall profits the company has not earned. The SCCs an
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alysis agrees that if this bill were to become law it would mean just pennies on the dollar returned to customers after three years of overpaying for electricity. Passage of this bill means it would be nearly impossible for the SCC to lower base rates in future years. This adds up to billions of dollars in additional costs for Dominions customers. This refund freeze rip-off takes Virginia energy pol
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icy in the wrong direction and should be rejected. This plan does little more than pay lip service
