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...most part, elementary and high school programs won't be touched, but state universities will see funding cuts, driving up tuition. Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond just raised tuition for the spring semester by several hundred dollars, a rare midyear hike...
...plan: no new prosecutions of misdemeanor domestic-violence cases. "I deeply regret that the victims of domestic violence will not have a prosecutor on their side, while the defendants will be able to retain their own attorneys or have attorneys appointed for them if they are considered indigent," said commonwealth attorney Harvey Bryant, a Republican. "I can't afford to do everything." A spokesman for Governor Warner called the move by Bryant, an elected official, unfortunate, adding that "to throw out the whole category of domestic-violence cases is irresponsible...
...carried our message across the Commonwealth. You told the voters that the mess on Beacon Hill had to be cleaned up. You said that Kerry and I were the team to do it,” said Romney, former chair of the Salt Lake City Olympic Organizing Committee...
Their efforts might not have been effective, but O’Brien and running mate Christopher F. Gabrieli said the campaign had left its mark on the Commonwealth...
...focusing on those businesses that are here right now, working with them to find out what we can do as a Commonwealth to cut their costs of doing business, to keep those jobs here,” she argued at the debate...