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By JOHN GOOLRICK
It seems light years since I last, as a working journalist, stuck around for the final seemingly endless day of the Virginia General Assembly that sometimes stretched on into the wee hours of the next morning.
I thought of that when bold headlines in various places proclaimed that various inter-party and intra-party bickering might force the legislature not to adjourn until after its scheduled completion on or before midqight Saturday, March 9.
Or heaven forbid, reporters wrote as if the skies might fall, the legislators might even be forced to stick around until Monday to get their work done.
Too bad, but outside of a radius of 100 yards from the State Capitol hardly anybody really cared.
Now don’t misunderstand. During those years when I spent my days and nights in Richmond covering the Assembly 1 felt 1 was a the center of
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