Virginia legislators:
Don't send in the clones
Virginia has no laws restricting
human therapeutic cloning. Scientists and doctors are free to use
cloning to grow organs needed for transplants.
But this could change soon.
>>> Read the full
story by Corinne Eidson.
Legislators' spouses take
aim and open fire at range
While House members were
at work yesterday reviewing many new bills from the Senate, 15 of
their spouses were at play at a local firing range, the Richmond
Times Dispatch reported.
Booms from .357s and .45s
blended with the bangs from .22s. Some of the spouses even fired off
a few rounds of an Uzi machine gun as the House Spouses took shots
at bull's-eyes at the D&P Shooting Range on the Midlothian Turnpike.
'In
God we Trust' bill advances to the Senate
A bill to place the U.S.
motto "In God We Trust" in courthouses was reported to the
Senate by the Senate Courts of Justice Committee yesterday 10-3, according
to the Richmond Times Dispatch.
Delegate Robert G. Marshall,
R-Prince William, a sponsor of the bill, said the motto provides hope
and builds patriotism.
But opponents said posting
the motto would bring litigation. "I believe in God," said
Senate Minority Leader Richard Saslaw, D-Fairfax, "but a lot
of people don't."
He was one of three votes
against reporting the bill.
Millions slashed from
road budget in Northern Virginia
Northern Virginia will
receive less than half of the money it was promised for road repairs
this year. Hundreds of projects are at risk, The
Washington Post reported.
Many feel that this is
due to the economy. Others feel that the Gilmore administration is
to blame for promising too much.
"It's very clear that
the previous administration has over-promised at every turn, trying
to convince people they could have more for less," Transportation
Secretary Whittington W. Clement said. "And they damn near broke
the bank."
