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of age. It was to many in the capital city a sign that there is room for negotiation.
Until that report, McCarthy and others thought it unusual that Richmond leaders had not left doors open for themselves to be able to compromise and save face, a long standing last minute budget practice.
Under Virginia’s system, the state pays a range of county costs from shares of education to salaries for sheriffs and certain other employees. If Richmond can’t agree on a budget, no county or city in the state can really move forward.
Chichester, the governor and a whole raft of public interest groups have detailed the critical needs for increased funding. Testimony before the legislature last week said that Northern Virginia is in near traffic gridlock because road construction is so far behind.
The prisons are so crowded that 2,000 sentenced prisoners are being held in county jails. And the state’s first responders, the ones who would have to react to a terrorist attack in this rich target state, can’t talk to each other by radio because of an archaic radio system.
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