By Amanda Iacone | Virginia Statehouse News
RICHMOND — Former state employee Betty Banks earned more than 2,000 hours of sick time and 400 hours of vacation time during her 30-year career.
Tag Archive | "reform"
Governor wants more streamlining in government
April 14, 2011
Abby Rogers
Virginia Statehouse News
The 49 boards and commissions that have been eliminated under Bob McDonnell are only the beginning of his reform plans.
Government Reform Commission calls for cut to “low-hanging” fruit
November 23, 2010
By Stephen Groves
RICHMOND- The Governor’s Commission on Government Reform met on Thursday afternoon in Richmond to approve another round of changes — from the way the Commonwealth cuts its grass to how it behaves on twitter.
Federal judge to rule on health insurance mandate by year’s end
October 25, 2010
By Stephen Groves
The new federal health care reform law faced a major test on Monday in U.S. District Court in Richmond, as lawyers for Virginia argued against its constitutionality.
Judge Henry E. Hudson said he would have a decision by the end of the year, but acknowledged, “As you well know, this is only one brief stop on the way to the United States Supreme Court.”
Virginia employers look to hazy future in health care
October 08, 2010
By Stephen Groves
ALEXANDRIA, Va.- When the federal Affordable Care Act was passed in March, it included 2,400 pages of legislative language that will change the way Americans get their health care. But many Virginia businesses are still trying to figure out exactly what it means.
“There’s mostly confusion,” said Tina Leone, president of the Alexandria Chamber of Commerce.
Governor’s tweaked ABC plan less lucrative, more “business-friendly”
October 04, 2010
By Stephen Groves
RICHMOND, Va.- Gov. Bob McDonnell’s plan to sell off Virginia’s monopoly of the hard liquor business cleared its first hurdle Thursday, though with several changes, and less revenue, than the plan that was first presented on Sept. 8.
The subcommittee tasked with readying a liquor privatization plan recommended the plan go to the full committee meeting of the Government Reform Commission that will meet next week.
Lawmakers, state employees’ union consider 4 day workweek
September 16, 2010
By Stephen Groves
Alexandria, Va.- State employees may soon be working four days a week to save money.
Gov. Bob McDonnell’s Government Reform and Restructuring Commission on Monday unanimously recommended that certain state agency employees switch to a four day workweek, where they work 10 hours a day. The three-day weekend could save money on energy costs and improve employee morale. Not all agencies are recommended for the change, particularly those involved with law-enforcement and education.
Expanding DMV services among suggestions to reform government
September 01, 2010
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Imagine if state employees worked four 10-hour days each week. Or if you could renew your driver’s license and pay a parking ticket at the state Department of Motor Vehicles at the same time. Or if it was easy to read the state budget.
Future Virginia health care will have McDonnell’s brand
August 19, 2010
By Stephen Groves Virginia Statehouse News
While the effects of “Obamacare” will soon be changing the health insurance industry, Gov. Robert F. McDonnell is fighting to put his own brand on Virginia health care that could become “McDonnellcare.”
The issue of health care has the governor juggling his fight against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, the federal mandates that will be implemented in the coming months and years, and his agenda to put a personal stamp on the Commonwealth’s health care system.
Digging into Virginia’s potato boards
August 17, 2010
By Ann Kaiser Virginia Statehouse News
Virginia has been on board with potatoes since 1982, literally.
But even though Virginia’s two boards on potatoes have operated the same way for the past three decades, potato farms cover only one-sixth of the land they once did.
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- VA home-schoolers seek to even playing field
- VA gov’s pension payout includes $600M deferred
- VA gay adoption: Discrimination or religious freedom?
- Voter ID law could freeze youth vote in VA
- VA GOP campaigned on jobs, pushes social issues, Dems say
- Annual reviews a sour apple for teachers in VA
- HPV vaccine: Dems worry about funds; GOP fears health effects
- VA teachers rally for state pension funding, localities struggle with gaps
- ‘Personhood’ bill ranks high on Marshall’s priorities
- Lawmakers set out to reform quick foreclosures
- Griffith Attacks Boucher's Support of "Cap and Trade"
- No plans for a Northern Va. I-95 toll
- Retired Virginia Police Superintendent Col. Gerald Massengill "candy bar at a candy store"
- Gov. McDonnell's office lays out plan to sell liquor stores
- Average pay for state employee slightly trumps private-sector pay
- Critics Question McDonnell's "Surplus"
- Speed and safety a balancing act with new laws
- Virginia Indian tribes fight for federal recognition
- Governor's tweaked ABC plan less lucrative, more "business-friendly"
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