“The biggest skill I can bring to the table is a thorough understanding of the budgeting process and understanding the flows of money and an ability to work with the people to accomplish what our priorities and needs are,” said Joe McNamara, the Republican candidate in the 8th District House of Delegates race that will determine if the GOP holds on to their majority in the state legislature.
The problem for the polls highlighting the district is that it sees through a national looking glass, which has biases of its own – that is the true understated total error. Considering Tom Garrett won by a very hefty margin in the previous election cycle and Trump still has the good graces of many in VA-5, do not be surprised if Republican Denver Riggleman wins by a pretty sufficient margin.
Although the news is good on the job creation front, the bigger story is with wage growth, which has languished in the years since the Great Recession of 2008. Average hourly earnings increased by five cents an hour for the month and 83 cents year over year, representing a 3.1 percent gain.
The former Navy SEAL and Iraq combat veteran said his primary goals upon getting to Washington in January 2016 were to expand the military, help veterans through post-active duty care and other areas, and to help improve the Virginia Beach and Eastern Shore economy. Responding quite categorically to his mission, he said, “We’ve done just that.”
“The right to mold the political, moral, and religious opinions of…children is a right exclusively and jealously reserved by our laws to every parent; and for the government to attempt, directly or indirectly, as to these matters, to stand in the parent’s place, is an undertaking of very questionable policy. Such an attempt cannot fail to excite a feeling of jealousy, with respect to our public schools, the results of which could not but be disastrous.”
While a political meltdown should not be had now over the federal debt and deficit, if something is not done soon to curb the increasing numbers of debt and deficit, the melting will begin in just a few short decades.
For those fed up by the endorsement of members of the Front Royal Town Council, it’s beer time…no, seriously.
There is a new enemy waging war on Christmas. No, it has nothing to do with nuanced holiday greetings and decorations turning into divisive political statements.
Whether the manufacturing jobs boom seen under President Trump in his first 21 months in office will continue is now largely dependent on the administration’s handling of China, which currently has a quarter of a trillion dollars in duties levied on its products.
A 2,000-mile transcontinental trek has a lot of moving parts in it. So, here’s not what you need to know, but what you need to ask.
