a***n
发帖数: 404 | 1 http://news.aol.com/story/_a/virginians-face-3000-traffic-ticket/20070701103
509990001?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Virginians Face $3,000 Traffic Ticket
(July 1) - Virginia is for lovers, or so the state slogan has declared since
1969. Starting today, Virginia also will be the home of the $3,000 traffic
ticket. In an effort to raise money for road projects, the state will start
hitting residents who commit serious traffic offenses with huge civil penalt
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The new civil charges range from $750 to $3 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 2 Print Article Send a Tip
by AWR Hawkins 23 Sep 2013
Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe's (D) website was updated
Monday to show his commitment to bring Colorado-like gun control to the
commonwealth.
In the section titled "Investing in Virginia's Urban Centers,"
TerryMcAuliffe.com now contains the heading, "Support Common Sense Gun
Control Measures."
Under that heading, it says McAuliffe "will support mainstream and majority
supported gun control measures like universal background ... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 3 过去重罪前科者被剥夺投票权，再工作住房个方面受歧视。人权人士对此十分不满。杀
人犯只要改过自新还是有权利和正常人一样生活的嘛！现在开始要恢复他们的投票权。
雇主和房东也要被禁止对申请者做背景调查！
POLITICS JAN 28 2018, 4:34 PM ET
Millions of ex-cons lost their right to vote. Now they might get it back.
by JANE C. TIMM
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RICHMOND, Va. — Dean Turner never voted before he went to prison. But his
right to cast a ballot was the last barrier to rebuilding his life once he
got out.
Released in February 2016, after more than a decade behind bars for selling
drugs, the 50-year-old Virginian work... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 4 WV Dems Not Thrilled About Anti-US Energy Obama, Voted for Felon Instead
May 9, 2012 by Warner Todd Huston
President Obama had an opponent in the West Virginia Democrat Primary and
the fella did pretty well, too. Democrat Keith Judd was Obama’s primary
opponent for the Democrat nomination for President on Tuesday and he
garnered 40% of the cote, too. I’d say that’s pretty good for a convicted
felon that is still serving time in a Texas jail, wouldn’t you?
Oh, I am not pulling your leg, dear re... 阅读全帖 |
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W*****B
发帖数: 4796 | 5 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: WCNMLGB (CCC), 信区: Military
标 题: 有重罪前科的人现在有希望重新获得投票权了！
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Jan 28 17:11:25 2018, 美东)
过去重罪前科者被剥夺投票权，再工作住房个方面受歧视。人权人士对此十分不满。杀
人犯只要改过自新还是有权利和正常人一样生活的嘛！现在开始要恢复他们的投票权。
雇主和房东也要被禁止对申请者做背景调查！
POLITICS JAN 28 2018, 4:34 PM ET
Millions of ex-cons lost their right to vote. Now they might get it back.
by JANE C. TIMM
SHARE
RICHMOND, Va. — Dean Turner never voted before he went to prison. But his
right to cast a ballot was the last barrier to rebuilding his lif... 阅读全帖 |
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h******t
发帖数: 99 | 7 多谢！
又是两个Virginian。
记得从CW导游听过一个说法，All American's Virginian.
不过此二位是19世纪的人物了，和17，18世纪来自弗吉尼亚大腕们没法比 |
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发帖数: 1540 | 9 1 man shot, one held by victims in home invasion
Tweet
By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot
© October 3, 2013
PORTSMOUTH
A suspect was shot during a home invasion Wednesday night and a second was
held by residents until police arrived in the 3900 block of Long Point Blvd.
One of several residents inside the home pulled out a gun and fired after
four armed, masked people entered shortly before 11 p.m., according to a
news release from police spokeswoman Misty Holley.
When officers arrived, t... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 279 | 10 Pre-Columbian Americans: (pdf) Spreading from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego,
America's first immigrants cultivated maize, developed sophisticated
calendars and used zeros, built temples and pyramids without the use of
wheels, but were helpless against the disease and weapons of the Europeans.
Chart: 16th & 17th Century European Colonizing Efforts (pdf)-Five European
nations (Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, France, and England) played
major roles in opening up the New World to priests, treasure-... 阅读全帖 |
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v******0
发帖数: 883 | 11 说经济水平,至少有10个州比河马惨.
(中线收入和物价对比)
38 Florida
40 North Carolina
47 Kentucky
9 California
42 Louisiana
16 Rhode Island
24 Oregon
46 Alabama
41 New Mexico
39 South Carolina
20 Vermont
15 New York
District of Columbia
43 Montana
48 Arkansas
50 Mississippi
49 West Virginia
31 Maine
5 Hawaii
说人口结构,至少有10个州比河马烂.
(非拉丁裔白人人口的比例)
Alabama
North Carolina
South Carolina
Virginia
Illinois
Louisiana
New Jersey
Mississippi
New York
Arizona
Florida
Georgia
Maryland
Nevada
Texas
New Mexico
California
Washington, D.C.
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x*****8
发帖数: 10683 | 12 Never.
She went to New York soon after she graduated with an MBA.
Her male Facebook friend who studied in the same Mongolian university
commented earlier this year: I want to have a baby with you. From that
comment I knew: xiaoyun has never been married. She has never had a baby.
She has hundreds of Facebook followers from the same Mongolian university
and the same Virginian university. There're more female followers than male
followers. From there I deduced her beauty is universally appreciated... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 13 Democrats in Virginia appear to have ended the Republican majority in the
House of Delegates after a recount found that one Democratic candidate
defeated a GOP incumbent by a single vote.
The recount, held in Virginia’s 94th District, found that Democratic
candidate Shelly Simonds won the Nov. 7 election by just one vote after the
original results showed Republican incumbent David Yancey winning by 10
votes, according to The Virginian Pilot. |
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p*******r
发帖数: 2204 | 14 http://news.yahoo.com/mlk-memorial-china-love-121700223.html;_y
MLK Memorial: From China, with love?
MLK Memorial: From China, with love?
MLK Memorial plans have been dogged by controversy over links to China. The
MLK Memorial was built by a Chinese sculptor from Chinese granite. But
backers are pleased with the result.
Christian Science MonitorBy Patrik Jonsson | Christian Science Monitor – 2
hrs 36 mins ago
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发帖数: 19713 | 15 Va. House of Delegates Kills Worker Protections
By Julie Bolcer
Virginia State Housex390 (Photos.com) | Advocate.com
A bill that would have protected state workers from discrimination based on
sexual orientation died in a Virginia house of delegates subcommittee
Tuesday, one day after such protections passed the senate for the first time.
According to the Virginian-Pilot, opponents in the Republican-controlled
senate did not see the need for the bill.
“But the definition of sexual orientation, w |
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g********d
发帖数: 4174 | 16 Posted on Advocate.com January 26, 2011
Va. Lawmakers Push for Employment Protections
By Julie Bolcer
Adam Ebbin Democratic lawmakers in Virginia announced support Tuesday for a
bill that would make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of sexual
orientation and gender identity in the state work force and in the Virginia
National Guard.
According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, “Similar legislation has failed
in past General Assembly sessions, but lawmakers said there is growing
bipartisan sup... 阅读全帖 |
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D**S
发帖数: 24887 | 17 http://nyti.ms/LKYVce
Mark R. Herring, the Virginia attorney general, center, said that Virginia
had been on the wrong side of other civil rights fights, including
segregation. Bob Brown/Richmond Times-Dispatch, via Associated Press
Asserting that Virginia had too often been on the “wrong side” of justice
on civil rights matters, the state attorney general asked a federal court on
Thursday to invalidate the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, calling the
law unconstitutional and oppressive.
The mo... 阅读全帖 |
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J*V
发帖数: 3150 | 18 1 man shot, one held by victims in home invasion
Tweet
By Cindy Clayton
The Virginian-Pilot |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 20 Tuesday, 02 Aug 2011 02:40 PM
By Samuel Doniger
The battle over adding a balanced-budget amendment may have made headlines
in recent weeks, but the debate over the issue is nearly as old as the
United States, according to The Christian Science Monitor.
Thomas Jefferson proposed such an amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1798
to rein in spending of the nation’s second president, John Adams, and
prohibit the federal government from spending beyond its means.
“I wish it were possible to obtain a... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 21 Cuisines from My Stepfather
By Mark Steyn
April 28, 2012 4:00 A.M.
A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the
towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what
the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s
Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will
ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in
the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, t... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 22 Wednesday, 04 Jul 2012 12:11 PM
By Salena Zito, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
To the 13 families living in the Western Pennsylvania village of Venice, Gen
. George Washington was an arrogant, elite Virginian who dared to claim
ownership of the land where they had built log cabins, grown crops and
conducted their lives for nearly 15 years.
To them, he was “the first true 1-percenter,” local historian Clayton
Kilgore said, recalling Occupy protesters’ description of wealthy Americans.
Washington repre... 阅读全帖 |
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l****z
发帖数: 29846 | 23 ‘Affordable’ ObamaCare: Woman With Chest Pains Skips X-Ray After Realizing
She Has a $5,500 Deductible
by Jammie
There’s going to be a lot of this going on. These suckers have no clue that
if they have a $5,500 deductible on top of their $450 per month “
Affordable” health care they’re on the hook for all of that $5,500 before
the wonderful benefits of their insurance kick in.
Another ObamaCare success story:
Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a
frigid Thursd... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2503 | 24 根本没退出VA
Trump’s campaign, however, released this statement today:
“We remain absolutely committed to winning in Virginia. While we’re
reallocating some of our staff strategically to accommodate early voting in
nearby priority states such as North Carolina, our campaign leadership and
staffing remains strong in Virginia. Together with the RNC and the state
Party, we will have all the resources we need to re-take the Commonwealth at
the Presidential level in November, as historically early voting ... 阅读全帖 |
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j*******r
发帖数: 412 | 25 赞楼主实干精神。
歪楼问题答案：
"We remain absolutely committed to winning in Virginia. While we're
reallocating some of our staff strategically to accommodate early voting in
nearby priority states such as North Carolina, our campaign leadership and
staffing remains strong in Virginia.
Together with the RNC and the state Party, we will have all the resources we
need to re-take the Commonwealth at the Presidential level in November, as
historically early voting in Virginia is much less of a focus for both
part... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1 | 26 Virginians! 希望他们能有勇气恢复祖先的荣光，弗吉尼亚军团抗击了现在东部所有蓝
州的总兵力，而且还不断进攻进攻 |
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发帖数: 12114 | 28 Anita Kumar writes at McClatchy DC that the moderate/globalist faction of
the White House is pushing President Donald Trump toward an immigration “
deal” that would reduce the president’s campaign promise of a border wall
to a “bargaining chip” for more amnesty.
Anita Kumar covers Virginia politics and government in the Richmond bureau
of The Washington Post. Her primary responsibility is writing about Gov.
Robert F. McDonnell (R) and the General Assembly. Prior to that, she spent a
decade at th... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 29 【 以下文字转载自 Military 讨论区 】
发信人: brihand (brihand), 信区: Military
标 题: 牛：1票胜出
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Tue Dec 19 16:03:29 2017, 美东)
Democrats in Virginia appear to have ended the Republican majority in the
House of Delegates after a recount found that one Democratic candidate
defeated a GOP incumbent by a single vote.
The recount, held in Virginia’s 94th District, found that Democratic
candidate Shelly Simonds won the Nov. 7 election by just one vote after the
original results showed Republican incumbent D... 阅读全帖 |
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b*****d
发帖数: 61690 | 30 According to the Daily Press, the recount will now go to the State Board of
Elections to be certified.
Virginia state law says in the event of a tie in a state House race, the
winner is chosen “by lot,” which could include a coin toss, according to
The Washington Post.
The race carries enormous consequences for the Virginia House of Delegates.
Republicans held a 51-49 margin in the House before the recount, and a
victory by Simonds would have given Democrats 50 seats in the lower chamber
for the... 阅读全帖 |
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j*********r
发帖数: 24733 | 31 FBI lovers' latest text messages: Obama 'wants to know everything'
Newly revealed text messages between FBI paramours Peter Strzok and Lisa
Page include an exchange about preparing talking points for then-FBI
Director James Comey to give to President Obama, who wanted “to know
everything we’re doing."
The message, from Page to Strzok, was among thousands of texts between the
lovers reviewed by Fox News. The pair both worked at one point for Special
Counsel Robert Mueller's probe of alleged collu... 阅读全帖 |
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j*********r
发帖数: 24733 | 32 Companies behind Florida bridge collapse have history of fines, failures,
lawsuits
The two firms responsible for building Florida International University’s "
instant bridge," which suddenly collapsed Thursday and left six people dead,
are coming under increased scrutiny as details emerge of past engineering
failures and inspection fines -- including a recent accusation that one
hired “unskilled” and “careless” workers.
The $14.2-million pedestrian bridge was supposed to open next year to help
s... 阅读全帖 |
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t*****w
发帖数: 254 | 35 I bought Honda CR-V at Tyson corner, DC area for 23k (OTD). There is 3.2 %
Tax for Virginian. I am happy about this deal. I have not tried other brand
cars as my family has addicted to Honda brand. |
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d********f
发帖数: 43471 | 36 很多左gun的特征就是认识几个字看几篇文章就以为自己掌握了真理，wv属于南方是典型
左gun想法，因为左gun看到virginia就以为这是南方联盟的一部分，只可惜west
virginia
恰恰是独立出来支持北方还被联邦承认的一个边境州。
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia
The state's Northern Panhandle, and North-Central region feel an affinity
for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Also, those in the Eastern Panhandle feel a
connection with the Washington, D.C. suburbs in Maryland and Virginia, and
southern West Virginians often consider themselves Southerners. Finally, the
towns and farms along the mid-Ohio R... 阅读全帖 |
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H******i
发帖数: 4704 | 37 他败给谁的？茶党！茶党反对CIR比他坚决多了，所以两害相权取其重，龛秃只是小害
，小害去了大害来，这才是为什么说CIR不行了。
(BN) Cantor Loss Upends Republican Ranks, Dims Immigration Bill
2014-06-11 11:46:05.930 GMT
By Derek Wallbank and Jonathan Allen
June 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. House Majority Leader Eric
Cantor’s historic loss in yesterday’s Virginia primary sent
shock waves through the Republican Party, creating an opening
for a Tea Party-backed candidate to vie for a leadership post
and likely cementing Washington gridlock for years.
Cantor... 阅读全帖 |
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s*******n
发帖数: 12995 | 38 这种政府刮钱的口子一开，就收不了了。SR520和Tacoma Narrows Bridge收toll还情有
可原，但这种 “When faced with tolling an existing facility to fund
construction of a separate, new facility, Virginians sued.”
Tolls on SR 520 during peak-hour one way travel started at $3.50 in 2012,
have risen to $3.59 for 2013, and will increase each year to $4.33 by 2016.
Tolls on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge have gone from $1.75 in 2007 to $2.75 in
2009 to $4.00 in 2013, and are scheduled to increase to $6.00 in 2016. |
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L******y
发帖数: 275 | 39 Happy New Year to all Virginian!:) |
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s****r
发帖数: 736 | 40 给个总结（from Collegiate Times)
Speed Limit
Offenses Total New Fines
Felony Offenses #3,000
e.g. DUI 3rd or subsequent offenses, involuntary manslaughter
DUI,1st or 2nd offense $2,250
e.g. Driving white intoxicated >= .08 or driving under the influence of
drugs
Reckless or Aggressive Driving $1,050
Racing, misdemeanor $1,050
Refusing breathalizer, 2nd or 3rd offense $900
Consuming alcohol while driving $900
Driving on a suspended license $750
since
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q******1
发帖数: 19 | 41 By Tom Shean
The Virginian-Pilot
© March 11, 2008
Jobless rates climbed throughout Hampton Roads in January, driven by
cutbacks in retailing, business services and construction, according to data
released Tuesday by the Virginia Employment Commission and federal Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
Many of the reductions, including those in the leisure and hospitality
sector, were due to seasonal factors, said William Mezger, chief economist
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d***y
发帖数: 26 | 44 非常感谢 chancekiller 大虾的侠义相助。
由于一直没有机会check邮箱，所以直到今天才发现，原来chancekiller一个月前已经
帮我发了。
再次感谢。 |
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H********o
发帖数: 316 | 45 never been there. I'm not virginian yah. hehe.
address? |
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x**n
发帖数: 12542 | 47 ☆─────────────────────────────────────☆
cwh (妇女主任) 于 (Tue Apr 24 10:29:41 2012, 美东) 提到:
因为GREAT FALLS只这周免费。
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WangFatcat (猫大爷) 于 (Tue Apr 24 10:30:28 2012, 美东) 提到:
要改就赶紧着，不然来不及了。。。
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zhiwei (咱爷们儿) 于 (Tue Apr 24 10:31:06 2012, 美东) 提到:
你说了算!
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cwh (妇女主任) 于 (Tue Apr 24 10:33:19 2012, 美东) 提到:
先听听大伙意见，还有版大，版二，三哥的意见。
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发帖数: 7151 | 48 WV cops are notorious ticketing non-wv registered vehicles. I kid you not.
One of reasons was that people always make fine of West Virginian. So their
cops then reward out of state driver the expensive if not ridiculous tickets
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E********t
发帖数: 2447 | 49 Proud to be Virginian
★ 发自iPhone App: ChineseWeb 7.8 |
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P**C
发帖数: 4333 | 50 TUSCALOOSA | Virginia Tech has agreed to be Alabama's opponent in the 2013
Chik-Fil-A Kickoff Game at the Georgia Dome, Virginia Tech Athletic Director
Jim Weaver confirmed to the Hampton Roads Daily Press.
Alabama has been a fixture as the Southeastern Conference's representative
in the game for months, but its Atlantic Coast Conference opponent remained
undetermined until now.
Weaver first told the Virginian-Pilot last week that the matchup was in the
works. The Hokies will postpone a two-game... 阅读全帖 |
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