Peninsula Women’s Bar to host charity gala March 24 
Published: March 15, 2010
The Greater Peninsula Women’s Bar Association will host its annual Charity Gala on March 24 at the Point Plaza Conference Center in Newport News.
The gala, which will benefit a number of local charities for women and children, will be held from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Del. Glenn Oder and Del. Mamie Locke will [...]
McDonnell issues executive directive on discrimination
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Employment Discrimination, Gov. Bob McDonnell
Gov. Bob McDonnell directed state agencies not to discriminate against gay people in employment practices Wednesday, essentially overriding the Virginia attorney general’s advice to public colleges.
The governor issued the written directive as about 200 gay-rights activists swarmed the Capitol to protest Attorney General Kenneth Cuccinelli’s letter last week telling public colleges they cannot prohibit discrimination [...]
VSB Disciplinary Actions
Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: VSB Disciplinary Actions
On Jan. 13, a three-judge panel in Norfolk Circuit Court issued a public reprimand with terms to Joseph A. Pennington for violating the disciplinary rule that governs diligence. Pennington twice failed to timely file a motion for reduction of a client’s spousal support and failed to attend court hearings in the matter.
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House, Senate budget negotiators start talks
Published: March 8, 2010
Now that the House and Senate have officially deemed each other’s budgets unacceptable, a dozen negotiators start closed-door talks on something both sides can abide.
Without debate, the Democratic Senate voted 30-10 on Wednesday to substitute its budget for the House’s. The House did likewise in an early evening vote.
That sets up a nine-day slog toward [...]
Democrat, victor by 37 votes, takes seat in House
Published: March 8, 2010
Democrat Eileen Filler-Corn has been seated in the House of Delegates hours after winning a Fairfax County special election.
That gives the House its full complement of 100 members for the first time in the 2010 General Assembly.
The Northern Virginia lobbyist fills the 41st District House seat that Democrat Dave Marsden vacated when he won a [...]
McEachin’s gay rights bill killed in House
Published: March 8, 2010
A Republican-controlled House subcommittee has killed legislation that would have banned job discrimination against gay state employees.
The bill died on an unrecorded show-of-hands vote Tuesday evening.
Democratic Sen. Donald McEachin of Richmond sponsored the bill after new Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell’s executive order against job discrimination omitted protections for people based on sexual orientation.
Orders by two [...]
Company wants wind farm in Roanoke County
Published: March 8, 2010
ROANOKE—A Chicago-based company is pursuing a wind farm of 15 turbines atop Poor Mountain in Roanoke County.
Invenergy says the power-generating windmills would stand 443 feet from base to the highest tip of a blade. The turbines would occupy one of Virginia’s windiest land-based sites.
The project is in its preliminary stages, and it is estimated that [...]
Wilder stops fundraising for F’burg slavery museum
Published: March 8, 2010
Former Gov. L. Douglas Wilder has notified the state that he is no longer raising money for his planned slavery museum in Fredericksburg.
Wilder told the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services in a letter dated Feb. 26 that the U.S. National Slavery Museum had closed its offices and “is not soliciting contributions at this time” [...]
Foundation targets childhood obesity
Published: March 8, 2010
The group that helped cut Virginia’s youth smoking rate almost in half hopes to reduce childhood obesity.
The Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation has been renamed the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth to reflect its added mission, to help Virginia’s young people lose weight. Estimates show that about 31 percent of Virginians age 10 to 17 are [...]
VSB Disciplinary Actions
Published: March 8, 2010
Tags: VSB Disciplinary Actions
On Dec. 16, a three-judge panel suspended Alexandria attorney Dale E. Duncan’s license to practice law for two years, effective Dec. 23. The court found that Duncan engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation that reflects adversely on his fitness to practice law.
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On Feb. 26, the Virginia State Bar Disciplinary Board [...]
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