Kaine Adds $500 Million for Transportation
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By Tom Holden, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Dec. 15--RICHMOND -- Gov. Timothy M.
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A bill that would give $1.5 million to the Utah Department of Transportation to study east-west transportation in Salt Lake County passed unanimously out of the Senate Transportation Committee on Thursday.  HB108 is sponsored by Rep. Ron Bigelow, R-West Valley City.
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RICHMOND, Jan. 4 -- As GOP legislators unveiled proposals Friday to overhaul Virginia's mental health system, advocates for the mentally ill urged Gov. Timothy M. Kaine and the General Assembly to pump tens of millions of additional dollars into underfunded programs.
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NJ Transit&#39;s executive director on Thursday said the agency&#39;s 400,000 daily riders should expect fare hikes of up to 15 percent starting in July to offset a projected $50 million
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By Ray Reed ray.reed@roanoke.com 981-3351  State officials will announce plans within the next month for improving Interstate 81, Gov. Tim Kaine said Tuesday during a visit to the Roanoke Valley.
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Hundreds of low-income families in Virginia stand to receive long-awaited subsidies to help pay for child care under a proposal included in Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's budget.
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By Ray McAllister, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Mar. 10--NEWPORT NEWS   On a day celebrating one of America's most famous gunships, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine himself hauled out the big gun yesterday:   Conciliation.
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By Chelyen Davis, The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.  Mar. 1--RICHMOND -- Republican legislative leaders yesterday defended  their transportation plan and lashed out at Gov. Tim Kaine, who has said he  will substantially amend it and may veto it.
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With the Iraq war and clashes in Afghanistan grinding on, the cost to the US budget is $500 billion and still mounting.
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Time Warner has agreed to pay more than $500 million to settle wide-ranging criminal and civil allegations that its America Online division improperly pumped up revenue and engaged
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New York state's new budget for fiscal 2009 would rise 5.1 percent to $124 billion under Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan unveiled on Tuesday, though he noted Wall Street's downturn caused "significant" revenue declines.
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A component of state transportation legislation that would shift responsibility for planning and building secondary roads to Northern Virginia localities is a nonstarter, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said yesterday.  Kaine made his comments after meeting with regional leaders.
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By Tom Holden, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 23--Hampton Roads Transit agreed Thursday to spend $4.9 million on a contract with the Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority to acquire property for the planned light rail project.
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Microsoft Chair Bill Gates has contributed $400,000 to the campaign to support a California initiative that would provide the state with nearly $3 billion in funding for human embryonic stem cell research, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports (Elias, AP
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By Ed Mendel, The San Diego Union-Tribune  Feb. 20--SACRAMENTO -- A surge of new highway money from a $19.9 billion  transportation bond has renewed political infighting over whether Caltrans  should use government or private engineers, bringing warnings of possible  project delays.
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RICHMOND, Feb. 19 -- A small group of Virginia lawmakers began a final round of negotiations Monday on a transportation deal that could fix the state's roads without taking money from other core services such as health care, public safety and education.
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Business software maker Hyperion Solutions Corp., of Sunnyvale, says it will give $5,000 to every employee who buys a car that gets at least 45 miles per gallon.