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Northern Virginia has a large immigrant population, many of whom help fill the severe labor shortage in blue collar jobs like construction and landscaping. Do you support using public money to build a day laborer site like Herndon did?

The national economy is strong right now, and the Virginia economy is strong. We're better than pretty much any other state.

A few years ago both dams were declared to be out of compliance with Virginia dam safety regulations by the Office of Dam Safety and Department of Conservation and Recreation.

After Florida, Virginia is the fastest growth market on the East Coast.

The most important thing that the city can do is encourage growth that provides good wages for folks. I very much would like to see a living wage for people at Western State. This was addressed at the University of Virginia recently. They did it for the same reasons - to allow people to have a stake in their community.

Some places in the highest elevations, from western Virginia to portions of interior New England, could end up with a foot of snow,

Do you really think a group of kids from rural Virginia decided to do this on their own? Decided that the best way to embarrass Arabs and make them talk was to have them walk around nude?

During my two terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, I saw first-hand how government has grown out of control, ... Just over the past 10 years, the budget in Virginia has increased by 81 percent, coupled with unnecessary tax increases. This is why we need Americans for Prosperity in Virginia. Together we will form the first true grassroots organization dedicated to ensuring that the leaders of our state are held responsible for the lack of fiscal discipline in Richmond. We'll establish at least six local chapters across the state by November 1, and 10 by the time the General Assembly convenes in January.

Coach Carey really has the program going in the right direction and has done well in the past few seasons. I'm looking forward to being apart of that success. I'm also very excited to be from West Virginia and play for the state's flagship institution. It should be a great experience for me.

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here,

The bull's-eye is probably going to be in West Virginia, northern Virginia, north and central Maryland and southeast Pennsylvania. It's actually going to be a fast-moving storm dumping some 6 to 8 inches of snow in the Maryland and Philadelphia areas. There could be a couple of places in West Virginia that get 10 inches.

As long as our players focus, I feel that we ought to be competitive come tournament time. In addition, I feel that our record could very well merit us a berth in the Virginia State Independent Schools Playoffs. If so, it would be the first time that we qualified for the VIS.

You've just got to give Virginia Tech credit. They were more energized or something.

You're already seeing signs that Virginia Tech is catching Texas.

You might as well get used to this. There's some new people in town and y'all got to hopefully welcome us with open arms. I'm not talking about just BC, but you've got Miami and Virginia Tech. So this league has evolved and hopefully we bring some credibility to it, and people would appreciate the quality of basketball that we're playing and those other new schools are playing.

You name the state or the drug company, and they will all have representatives there. We're the only group from West Virginia that is going. We might be small potatoes compared to others, but we think our presence will be felt.

This is exactly why West Virginia has one of the most stringent testing requirements in the nation. The process worked. The county clerks were doing their job. This is exactly why we test the machines.

This is going to be a very difficult race just to get the nomination, not to mention winning the general election. The alternative is that he could practically ask for the Virginia governorship in 2009 and have it; his for the asking if he doesn't have a loss on his record in 2008.

This is the first time that any big travel conference, not just Travel South, has been to Virginia in 20 years. There are hundreds and hundreds of places that are vying for these conferences and it is very tough to land them. This is a real feather to get Travel South here.

This is not a union or non-union issue. This is a West Virginia bill for West Virginians.

This game was similar to the Virginia game in that we jumped up, everything we worked on was working and then we stopped playing.

This could be the last game I ever play, you know. Certainly, it's the last game I'll ever suit up for Virginia Tech, so it's extra motivation to leave it all out there.

This campaign has been the longest job interview of my life, ... But now the people of Virginia have spoken. They have said they want a new approach for our commonwealth, and tonight I'm here to tell you I'm ready for the challenge.

This agreement serves the important goal of hiring qualified police officers in full compliance with the law. We applaud the City of Virginia Beach for working cooperatively with us to make certain that qualified applicants who can well perform the job's important public safety mission will not be unfairly screened out because of unnecessary job requirements.

This acquisition was particularly attractive because it will allow us to expand our western North Carolina and Virginia franchises as well as our existing presence in northwest Georgia into East Tennessee,

This is again a very challenging schedule. We will face seven teams that won at least seven games last year, including two of the top teams in the ACC, within our first three games both on the road. Plus, we have to go to Virginia Tech.

This is a big game. West Virginia is probably the best team in the Big East right now. We need to go into their house and pull out a victory.

This has been a very difficult last 10?12 days. I have been involved in wrestling a long time. I had a short list of coaches. There were a lot of people with Iowa backgrounds and some who didn't have any ties to Iowa. It all came down to one candidate and that candidate is Tom Brands. He did a terrific job at Virginia Tech. He has a fierce, competitive spirit and that's what we are looking for.

This has been a magical year to be coach at West Virginia University. But you get so focused on what you're doing, and sometimes bad things happen.

They're the best team in the Big East right now. They know how to win. It's a huge game. In the Big East, you can't afford too many losses. There are so many tough teams. West Virginia is at the top. That's our goal, so we're going to have to beat them. It's a big game. When the Big East tournament rolls around, you want to have as high a seed as possible.

A lot of credit to those Virginia guys, though. We got a bit of a lead on them early, and they hung tough all the way down the race course.

A lot of people here are saying we're doing to this to send a message to Washington. That's not the right way to handle it. You don't pass legislation and put stuff in the Virginia Code to send a message to Washington.

You don't want to recruit a guy who has to change two, three planes to get here. You can get on a plane in Chicago and get here (directly). You can be in Dallas or Houston and fly right here. That's a different recruiting than asking a player from Pennsylvania. He has to stop in Chicago and change planes. You don't recruit Pennsylvania. You don't recruit to Tidewater Beach because the kid from Virginia has to fly to Atlanta first. But the kid from Atlanta can fly non-stop. I look for cities where it's a non-stop flight.

You can't let Pittsburgh come at you, ... You can't let Connecticut come at you. You can't let West Virginia come at you. You're not playing against bad teams.

There was no way I could win this game for us. They played a 2-3 zone and I can't do it by myself. It's a team game and West Virginia played as a team. We did not play as a team offensively or defensively. There was no way I could have won this game for us.

There will be a lot of pressure on us to get it right in training camp. We don't have any exhibition games, any 'give-me' games coming out of the blocks. Virginia is a very tough game, especially for an opener. We have young players, but they have talent and we'll work hard to get them ready. These guys will respond to the challenge and we'll be a lot better prepared for the beginning of the season this time through it.

There probably haven't been too many games played by a Virginia quarterback like that one, ... It says a lot about him. This kid has a lot of attributes, but guts is high on his list. He's got a lot of heart and he cares deeply about this team.

There's a little more to this rivalry now. They're a better team and they're coming ready to play. This isn't West Virginia from four or five years ago that got walked all over. We'll come out to play. They'll come out to play. We're going to try and make this a great game.

This is what we look for when we come here, Virginia v. Syracuse. We've been here before.

They're showing improvement. They got better. You can see the difference between the Virginia State game and the (North Carolina) A&T game. And they've had two weeks to get ready for this game.

Absolutely. The Republican campaign in Virginia will tell you that, at least privately. The president chose to nationalize that election by showing up on election eve. You don't want to do that unless you want to be associated with the results. I think they thought genuinely Bush could pull him across the race. It wasn't close. The result: Bush has to take the spanking.

Absolutely, ... The Republican campaign in Virginia will tell you that, at least privately. The president chose to nationalize that election by showing up on election eve. You don't want to do that unless you want to be associated with the results. I think they thought genuinely Bush could pull him across the race. It wasn't close. The result: Bush has to take the spanking.

accepted his idea that the audience for a quality novel might not be large enough to support the author by means of commerce; this idea is a truism today, but it was new, even revolutionary, for Virginia Woolf, James Joyce and many of their contemporaries.

It's just fun to go back and see my friends, neighbors ... I get to see my whole family there, ... My brother plays at Virginia Tech and they don't play this weekend so he's actually coming up to the game. It'll be cool. I like going home, you feel comfortable. You just try to play as good as you can because you know everyone will be watching.

It?s escalated into something more than a little Virginia company and a Canadian-based company, Research in Motion. It turned into an international squabble about patent rights.

It's a big game for the school. It'll get a lot of recruits in. It kind of lets people know that we're trying to be one of the elite teams in the country, just like Virginia Tech is. I think this program can go all the way to the top. We're getting a lot of good players in and great coaches. I don't think we're too far off.

It was certainly not an atypical Virginia game coming down to the end like that. It kinda reflected the last game that we played. I guess that is fitting.

It was a roller-coaster ride in terms of starting out 5-0 and then struggling at the end, but then regaining focus and composure in the last two games. It's a shame this one goes down in the loss column. But if you look at the effort and the focus in the Virginia Tech game and last night, certainly it was dramatically different than what we saw during the three-game losing streak.

It's a combination of homeland security, defense, high tech, top-flight colleges and universities. Virginia pretty much didn't slow down in the 2001 recession, and has had the lowest unemployment rate on the East Coast for six or seven years now.

It's a great opportunity for the program. The great thing about it is to be able to go up against a great program like Virginia Tech. When it comes to football, they are one of the schools I looked at in trying to model our program.

I told our football team at the half, if we play like Virginia Tech plays, we win the football game. That?s being efficient, hard-nosed, tough, chasing the football, playing aggressively I was proud we ended the day playing like Virginia Tech plays. I thought our kids gave great effort. They hung in there and kept battling and kept coming back.

It's a paper-thin margin. It's irrelevant, because Virginia Tech is not going to catch Southern Cal and they have a faint hope of catching Texas. Virginia Tech isn't going to catch Southern Cal before they (the Trojans) catch Texas.

It's all about us. It's not about staying above Virginia Tech. We just have to play every game. We're not the ones who judge, so we can't worry what they think. We can just play.

I told them that Virginia is going to press us, they play a lot of man-to-man, and if they shut you down, they'll shut everything else down. They accepted the challenge.

It's troubling for McCain because he's lost in South Carolina, Virginia and now Georgia leading up to next week.

It's not my Virginia or your Virginia. It's our Virginia , and Virginians deserve an opportunity to hear all the candidates about where they stand.

It's kind of like going from Virginia Beach to L.A. in a 24-hour period.

It just proves that we're still Florida State. Before the game, everybody was counting us out. Virginia Tech was a two-touchdown favorite and nobody gave us a chance. Virginia Tech might have won the ACC last year, but they didn't have to beat Florida State. This is still our conference.

It is Virginia law that you have to move out of the way of the overtaking vehicle, even if they are speeding. I don't think a lot of people know that.

It is time for Virginia to step up to the plate and protect private property rights from government abuse.

It's a lot like the old Virginia Tech teams we played. They're physical and they play pretty intelligently and they go after the offensive boards pretty hard. It'll probably be like the games we played against them a few years ago.

It's funny, I can sit here and tell you the handful of games he didn't play well, and that tells you he's been consistent because we count on him playing well all the time. He's played bad against Air Force, Virginia and North Carolina. When you can put together a list off the top of your head, you know a kid has been steady.

It's been our experience in Texas and Virginia that competition results in lower prices. It's certainly a restraint on increases.

Dawn is the epitome of what the Distinguished Alumni Award represents. Since graduating in 1992 she has brought notoriety, prestige, and honor to the University through her personal and professional endeavors. Dawn's experiences at Virginia have helped her to impact the world in a meaningful way. She is most deserving of this recognition.

Don't be surprised if Virginia Tech is not only behind Texas but Georgia as well when the first release comes out.

That's the great part about Virginia Tech being part of the ACC. Forget about only playing (the Cavaliers) once a year - how about playing them three times in a year? I think that's good for basketball in the state of Virginia.

That road actually falls under the care and feeding of the FHWA, and FEMA can't duplicate those funds. It's their bailiwick, I understand, because other than the state highway, it's the only road to Virginia City.

The Big East is one of our partners and I've made a commitment to go to each one of the new schools. I thought it would be a good game when I circled it and West Virginia is leading the conference and South Florida is trying to be the spoiler and get back in the race.

The biggest concern is they apply so much pressure, in all phases, that if you make a mistake they're going to punish you. Against Virginia Tech, that always concerns you, and it's quadrupled in the first game of the year, because someone is going to make a mistake in the first game. That's just the way it is.

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky.

Talk about changing the rules. This is an innovative attempt by West Virginia to gain its previous important role in presidential selection.

It's definitely not good for us. All we can do is go out and get a win against West Virginia and hope for a break. It's even bigger now. If we don't win that game, I don't know what's going to happen. We win that game, we give ourselves a chance.

It was a heck of a ball game. Unfortunately we dug ourselves a big hole. West Virginia did a phenomenal job of jumping on us early, running the ball extremely well and took advantage of our turnovers. When we were down 28 I didn't know if anything good was going to happen.

It was a great basketball game and it brought back memories of when we were shooting so well from the outside, a great moment in West Virginia history. I just wish it could have ended up with a win.

It was a gut-wrenching game. The way West Virginia fought to the end, I'd like to congratulate them on the way they run their program.

It's very likely that Virginia will eventually adopt the two-term governorship. But it won't be in the next few years, as far as I can tell.

It's time for the state of Virginia to grow up and say you can't have concealed weapons in the legislature and offices. You don't have a right to put other people's safety at risk in the state legislature.

It's tough because we dropped a gut-wrenching game against Virginia Teach the other night, and any time you lose some tight games, or three or four in a row, confidence becomes an issue. But the players came back to practice Thursday with some determined energy. Our message is that you can't fold up, and I hope they're internalizing it. It's an important mindset that if we work at it we can get over the hump here.

I want to remember the second half. I don't particularly want to remember the first half. ... We got back to Virginia Tech football. Personal fouls, penalties and sloppy play. That's not us. We haven't won all these games by being like that.

I want to give helpful advice as far as a career in the industry. I'm looking forward to being back in Woodbridge. Virginia can be described as 'the heartland,' and there's a lot of talk in the industry whether people in 'America proper' are being served by or talked down to by Hollywood.

I want to congratulate Louisville on playing a great game. We were lucky to win. I also want to congratulate my guys on hanging in there and battling and coming back in the second half. We got back to playing Virginia Tech football in the second half.

It used to always be West Virginia football around here, ... Now it's West Virginia basketball. It's neat to be a part of it, but I know we'll have a lot of pressure on us. None of what we did means anything.

They believe there's at any one time roughly five, 50-thousand undocumented workers in West Virginia and the cost to the state can be as much as 17-million to the state in lost revenue,

The V-Tech guys are going to be walking around here in Virginia Tech head to toe. Shirts, shorts, flip flops, underwear, we're V-Teching these boys to death.

The VPTC has put together a world-class event, featuring 31 presentations and over 20 company exhibits geared at enlightening business and technical leaders from Virginia and neighboring states,

The voters of southwest Virginia, when they compare the records of both, will see that he (Kilgore) is not only from southwest Virginia but also is more philosophically aligned with them.

They brought to our attention problems where out-of-state companies -- mostly construction companies that build big-box retailers -- were coming into West Virginia, under-bidding West Virginia contractors and using illegal aliens.

Not one piece of testimony on behalf of this measure has been able to demonstrate how amending the Virginia Constitution to prohibit marriage equality for same-sex couples, civil unions and other marriage look-alikes would somehow strengthen or protect heterosexual marriage.

Not too far from Washington, D.C., or Monticello, the manicured, Thomas Jefferson-designed University of Virginia is located on one of the most gorgeous campuses and towns around,

The N.C. State game gives our fan base a marquee home game in September against a team from the ACC. We're also very pleased with the addition of Florida and Virginia Tech to our schedule, two of the top programs in the nation.

It's not a surprise. We've done it often. It's a good look for us. West Virginia is smaller and perimeter-oriented. We've played with it a lot. It worked well tonight.

It's really an attack on all Virginia families. Even the proponents of the bill recognized there were all these exceptions and generalities.

At this time, we are asking companies to rededicate themselves and their miners and their operations to signify the enduring commitment to protecting miners in West Virginia by participating in the stand-down for safety. We will take an active approach to accident reduction.

Around here you never underestimate a match with a Virginia Tech team in anything. There's a very positive and strong rivalry there. We know they're going to bring their very best. We're not looking beyond them at all and we know that we'll have to play very well to win.

The kids go out to Virginia Tech and they're not used to the springiness of the (high banked turns).

The issue before the West Virginia Legislature is an issue of county option elections -- should voters of particular counties decide?

I'm dissatisfied, and I believe the people of Virginia are dissatisfied, with the direction this country is going. Unless we begin to focus on the real problems in Washington, the way Governor Warner has here in Virginia, we're never going to meet the challenges we face.

I'm finding consistently in all parts of Virginia that people are sick and tired of the mess in Washington. As a businessman and technology executive, I have the background and experience for real solutions to real problems.

I left Virginia and for the first hour or so, I kept thinking, 'What are you doing?' but as I continued on, I realized just how many Americans are impacted by cancer and my resolve kept growing,

I made this statement many times. If we can just get the best players from the state of Virginia and keep them here at Virginia Tech, then I really believe we'll play for a national championship, and we've been able to do that once and hopefully we can get back to that game.