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By SEAN ADAMS Arundel Newapapen, Richmond Bureau
RICHMOND — The 1984-86 state budget, uranium mining, a coal slurry pipeline, teachers’ salaries and highway funding were among the most important issues facing the 1984 General Assembly when it opened Wednesday afternoon.
As they began their scheduled 60-day session, the 140 legislators were also waiting to hear Gov. Charles S. Robb outline his priorities in his State of the Commonwealth address Wednesday night.
In that speech the governor was to propose his “principal initiatives and talk about issues that are, as he has called them, the ‘hot potatoes’,” said Robb spokesman George M. Stoddart.
Among those “hot potatoes" are the budget — aid for education and whether tax increases will be needed — as well as the pipeline and uranium issues, Stoddart said.
The spokesman refused to give details Monday, saying the speech “is in its seventh draft at this hour.”
Gov. Robb’s budget prio
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