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| A View from the Cheap Seats is a blog written Northern Virginia Daily staff writer Garren Shipley. Shipley has been covering Virginia politics since 2005. A native of East Tennessee, he got his first political bylines covering the statehouse in Nashville. He is a 2000 graduate of East Tennessee State University with a degree in mass communications and political science. He lives in Strasburg with his wife and two children.
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Valley farmers stand to benefit from having one of their own looking out for their interests in Richmond.
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Area sheriffs are encouraged by the General Assembly's weekend passage of a two-year budget that spares their departments most of the cuts that had been in former Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's proposed spending plan.
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Putting their rally caps on turned out well for supporters of the arts. When hundreds of people descended on Richmond late last month to persuade the House of Delegates' appropriations subcommittee against its own plan to eliminate the Virginia Commission for the Arts in 2011-12, they did so in the name of fairness.
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A valley lawmaker has been tapped to serve as the next commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
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FRONT ROYAL -- A Northern Shenandoah Valley delegate's bill banning "free spin" gambling machines in Virginia has passed both chambers of the General Assembly unanimously and now awaits the governor's signature.
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FRONT ROYAL -- In announcing passage of his bill to fill local government vacancies by special election, Del. Clifford L. "Clay" Athey Jr. appears to be critical of Councilman N. Shae Parker's recent abstention regarding a vote to raise town taxes.
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FRONT ROYAL -- Del. Clifford L. "Clay" Athey Jr.'s uniform general studies bill for community colleges has passed the Senate unanimously.
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FRONT ROYAL -- Members of Front Royal Tea Party Central were greatly outnumbered and outflanked prior to Monday night's Town Council meeting.
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