Douglas Wilder

Named 271 times. These are the 271 blocks the name was read from, in the order the paper printed them.

Mar 15, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...exquisite timing and luck that has marked his political career, Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is now ready to preach fiscal conservatism to Democrats across the nation. Flooded with invitations to address groups from coast to coast, Gov. Wilder can...
Mar 29, 1990 trict expect and deserve that kind of leadership.” Asked ...which has been offered to a number of Democratic hopefuls, including Gov. L. Douglas Wilder. “The first thing that you’ve got to do is go to three friends and raise $1,000 each.” That support, he added, has mushroomed to “something...
Apr 12, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK By JOHN GOOLRICK Rappahannock News Special Writer Many insiders believe Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has made one brilliant appointment that has already paid dividends and another appointment that may come back to haunt him. All that is speculative, of course,...
May 24, 1990 about whipping an incumbent congressman ...that political pundits said couldn’t happen, citing Democratic winners from Chuck Robb to Douglas Wilder and Don Beyer. Lt. Gov. Beyer, whose out-of-nowhere catapult to the Commonwealth’s second highest office may have inspired some of the hope in the room,...
Jun 7, 1990 Piedmont, which includes Rappahannock, Fauquier, Loudoun, Clarke, Culpeper, Madison, ...chairman of the state Commission on Population Growth and Development, and Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s administration.
Jun 7, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...day both sent strong messages about fiscal responsibility recently. In Richmond, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder dispatched Paul Timmereck, his Secretary of Finance, to tell the House of Delegates Appropriations Committee that the state’s financial house is in order despite an...
Jul 19, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK By JOHN GOOLRICK Rappahannock News Special Write Perhaps after six months of Wildermania the state’s political press corps may soon start finding other things to write about. Not that the constant stream of stories about Gov. L. Douglas Wilder haven’t...
Aug 9, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...the time a few months ago when he was announced as Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s hand-picked choice to lead the party. There was coi. ,em expressed then that with Goldman at the helm, public perception of the Virginia party might...
Aug 16, 1990 By MARY K. BLEWITT ...two years as tax revenue collections continue to fall below expectations, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder announced last week. The news leaves a cloud of apprehension among state agencies and localities that await the impact of the latest fiscal report. Amidst...
Aug 16, 1990 THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,1990 THURSDAY, AUGUST 16,1990 Hard choices Gov. L. Douglas Wilder will address the Commonwealth on Thursday, Aug. 16, with, we hope, solutions to the state’s current budget shortfall of $1.4 billion. On Friday, he will take his plan to the General...
Aug 23, 1990 By LOU HATTER By LOU HATTER Rappahannock News Staff Writer A week after Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s address to Virginia, local officials are still waiting for answers about how the belt tightening in Richmond will affect Rappahannock County. See related story, page 3...
Aug 23, 1990 By MARY BLEWITT By MARY BLEWITT Anindel Newspapers Staff Writer Gov. L. Douglas Wilder deferred cuts to localities and eliminated recordation tax revenues slated to be returned to Northern Virginia as he laid out his plan Friday to carve out a balanced budget...
Aug 30, 1990 U.S. 211 project ...the already postponed four-laning of U.S. 211 between Washington and Sperryville. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, in a state-wide television address Aug. 16, told the Commonwealth that Virginia faces a $1.4 billion deficit, and he called for drastic measures to reduce...
Sep 6, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...is becoming painfully obvious as the realization sinks in that Virginia Gov. L. Douglas Wilder is as serious as a heart attack about balancing the state’s biennial budget now out of whack an estimated $1.4 billion. When Gov. Wilder released...
Sep 20, 1990 EMS Week ...Sept. 16-22, is Emergency Medical Services Week in Virginia. We join Gov. L. Douglas Wilder in saluting the dedicated men and women — both paid and volunteer — who provide emergency medical services across the Commonwealth. Though they are most...
Nov 22, 1990 provisions of the revised Voting Rights Act, which Congress ...plan (without the other house’s consent needed) and Send it to Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and the U.S. Justice Department for approval. If, as Mr. Cooper believes, a suit-free 1991 plan can be devised, it will be the first time...
Nov 22, 1990 By JOHN GOOLRICK By JOHN GOOLRICK Rappahannock News Special Writer If Douglas Wilder should get on a national Democratic ticket there is just no way Republicans will be able to successfully slap the “Liberal” label on him as they have done with so...
Dec 13, 1990 Welfare Dept, ...recommendation but might choose still to recommend the consolidation. He said Gov. L. Douglas Wilder had signed off on the plan as a way to meet the department’s budgetary shortfall without sacrificing client services. See WELFARE, p.A-6
Dec 20, 1990 By JEFF NELSON ...JEFF NELSON and TOM RUWITCH Arundel Newspapers Staff Writers LEESBURG — Gov. L. Douglas Wilder reiterated his stand against raising taxes in the face of an expected $2 billion budget shortfall during a Dec. 14 interview with the Editorial Board...
Dec 20, 1990 Inaugural year ...PATRICK GRAHAM and WILLIAM HANLON Arundel Newspapers Staff Writers LEESBURG — Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s first year in office has been dominated by an inherited budget crisis that has prevented him from promoting his own agenda but has allowed him...
Jan 3, 1991 By LOU HATTER ...Staff Writcr In the wake of drastic budget cuts demanded by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder, consolidation and reduction of state government may be the best way to resolve the state’s fiscal crisis. ° At least that’s the hope of Del....
Jan 10, 1991 way out of the impasse. "He made a ...McCarthy noted that besides the cut in aid to. the schools, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s administration’ will probably recommend that the state force the counties to pick up some of the cost of paying the constitutional officers and their staffs....
Jan 10, 1991 Part of the process ...in modern times. The deficit reduction decisions already made by Gov. L. . Douglas Wilder and his administration, some of which must be approved by the legislature, and additional measures the lawmakers will probably be asked to consider during the...
Jan 17, 1991 Editorial ...local options are severely limited. Considering that budget-cut proposals made by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder include a $200 million reduction in state SOQ payments, the state shouldn’t force counties to uphold obligations that it’s reneging on itself. The SOQs were...
Feb 7, 1991 Gallery seeks ...Commission for theArts for new and emerging arts organizations. This year, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has proposed that the VCA’s budget be cut from $5 million to $1 million. Though there is, as yet, no firm indication that his suggestion...
Feb 7, 1991 deal with the fiscal crunch, a suggestion rejected both deal with the fiscal crunch, a suggestion rejected both by Gov. L. Douglas Wilder and the Democratic leadership. The rush of events coupled wiftr the financial blues has apparently given this year’s session a sharply more partisan bite than in...
Feb 14, 1991 By JEFF NELSON ...JEFF NELSON Arundel Newspapers State Writer RICHMOND — Senate amendments to Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s budget proposal would restore many of the cuts aimed at Northern Virginia but will face challenges from House lawmakers and a veto threat from Wilder....
Feb 21, 1991 Beyer ...for us to come out of it.” Beyer said he supports Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s approach to the budget crisis. “If you look at what Virginia’s doing. The first thing is to do what Gov. Wilder has done: balance the
Feb 28, 1991 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...little that will be long remembered except to ratify most of Gov. L. Douglas Wilder’s deep spending cuts to meet the state’s worst fiscal crisis of the century. Veterans of past sessions were almost unanimous in declaring this one a...
Mar 7, 1991 be nominated a third time even though he seems ...recycling State Sen. John Chichester of Stafford for lieutenant-governor. Though Chichester lost to Douglas Wilder in ( 1985, there were some extenuating x circumstances in that he got no help at all from the top of the ticket and that...
Mar 28, 1991 'Poor ...He and his family went to Richmond and received the award from Gov. Douglas Wilder. I was, and am, very proud of Sam, so I took this information directly to Lou Hatter. Although he now lives in neighboring Culpeper, Sam...
Mar 28, 1991 Vietnam War, that was long ago and far away ...time he would demonstrate that the man who has become his arch-enemy, Gov. Douglas Wilder of Virginia, is also bound for failure in his own quest to take the conservatism he has demonstrated as a Virginia Democrat to the national...
Apr 4, 1991 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...Writer A year and a couple of months after taking office, Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has pretty much had his own way in Virginia as well as commanding lots of attention on the national stage. Despite President Bush’s stunning popularity...
Apr 25, 1991 By JEFF NELSON By JEFF NELSON Arundel Newspaper! Staff Writer Gov. L. Douglas Wilder vetoed the Virginia Senate redistricting plan because of its small number of new black-nuyority districts but signed the House plan April 19. The action requires that the Senate reconvene...
Apr 25, 1991 Jerry M. Wood ...better. “It’s nothing like having your own delegate,” Mr. Wood said. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder gave his stamp of approval to the House district plan on Friday, April 19, which must now meet the approval of the U.S. Department of...
May 9, 1991 Sen. Miller’s district was made up only of counties ...is to protect the citizens from the excesses of local government.” However, Gov. Douglas Wilder vetoed that redistricting plan and then supported one which met his goal of providing for five black majority districts. It also cut the number of...
May 16, 1991 County split apart County split apart under senate plan Wilder adds No. Va. seat By JEFF NELSON Arundel Newapapen Staff Writer RICHMOND — Gov. L. Douglas Wilder announced last week that he will give Northern Virginia its due in the Senate redistricting plan....
May 16, 1991 Cut and dried ...office since it did not create enough majority black districts. Sure enough, Gov. Douglas Wilder vetoed the proposal. The next plan barely squeaked through the senate. It put Rappahannock back into Republican Sen. Kevin Miller’s 26th Senatorial District. It also...
May 16, 1991 By JOHN GOOLRICK ...said, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” but Gov. L. Douglas Wilder may be taking his agreement a bit too far. Speaking as one who, for various reasons, has to write columns a week in advance of...
May 23, 1991 Area students ...physical education; Bonnie Ann Grimsley, of Huntly, bachelor’s degree in Administration. Gov. L. Douglas Wilder gave the commencement address. He told the graduates that success and lasting happiness come to those who live by a set of values - “the...