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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
As the old joke goes there is good news and bad news.
What’s the bad news?
There’s nothing to eat but buffalo chips.
What’s the good news.
We’ve got lots of buffalo chips.
So it is in Virginia politics these days. We’ve got lots of news, both good and bad. In fact, there has been literally a news explosion in the past decade and a half or so.
When I first started covering state politics in the 1960s, the governor was Albertis S. Harrison, an intelligent man whose career was long and distinguished.
Yet Harrison was anything but flamboyant and his news conferences were generally routine as was state government in general in those days when the legislature met only every other year.
There were just a handful of reporters around the Capitol in a state dominated by rural and agricultural interests. By then, Virginia had gone through its massive resistance stage and had settled down again to become its old sedate self.
When Mills Godwin became governor (as a Democrat) there was a surge of excitement as he took action to sharply upgrade the state’s educational system - action that proved vastly successful. Yet Godwin, one
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