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<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Democrats' Surprising Plan: Call Bill Clinton ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101101913.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/11/AR2008101101913.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- A decade ago, Virginia Republicans would joke that their easiest path to victory on Election Day was getting the Democrats to have President Bill Clinton campaign for them. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democrats']]></category><category><![CDATA[Surprising]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Call]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Sabato]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Brodnitz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles J. Robb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Gitcho]]></category><category><![CDATA[John H. Hager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Griffis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis F. Payne]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver North]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Edward Houck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allegheny Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenandoah Valley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Republicans Chart a Return to Dominance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003048.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003048.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Oct. 10 -- After years of prominent defeats, Virginia Republicans say they are bracing for more losses in November but think they can reverse the trend as soon as next year by returning to their conservative roots and addressing the financial crisis and other issues. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republicans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chart]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Return]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominance]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bolling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[O'Brien Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Byler]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newt Gingrich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Farnsworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynchburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendell Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Budget Gap Forces Tough Choices ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003033.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101003033.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Arlington County employees will have to do more for less after the announcement of a hiring freeze in the face of a projected $10 million budget deficit, and schools might have to put off scheduled renovations, county officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Fredrick Kunkle</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gap]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ron Carlee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Tejada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isiah Leggett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack B. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Weast]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert G. Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Budget Shortfall Forces Va. to Cut Hundreds of Jobs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100901527.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100901527.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Oct. 9 -- Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine announced Thursday that he is laying off nearly 600 state workers, closing some prisons and cutting funding for higher education by about 6 percent as the state struggles with one of its worst financial crises in modern times.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232336522" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232336522" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shortfall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cut]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hundreds]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kitty J. Boitnott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leonard Sandridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colonial Heights]]></category><category><![CDATA[Majority M. Kirkland Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martinsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Southampton]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Education Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Museum of Natural History]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ward Armstrong]]></category><category><![CDATA[3M Post-it Notes]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Registered and Ready to Vote ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800034.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800034.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Loudoun County has at least 36,000 more registered voters than in the last presidential election, and about half of them registered in the past year. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kafia A. Hosh</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Registered]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ready]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Foreclosure Assistance Is on the Way ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703536.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703536.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Housing officials in Northern Virginia and Richmond are meeting this week to determine how to allocate $46 million in emergency federal aid set aside to stanch the region's foreclosure crisis. ]]></description><dc:creator>Nick Miroff</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Foreclosure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Assistance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Way]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elijah Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Shelton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detroit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Todd Christensen]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 10 Steps Through Virginia to the White House ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703179.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703179.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND With less than one month to go until the Nov. 4 elections, Virginia is shaping up to be a make-or-break state for John McCain 's hopes of winning the White House. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[10]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Through]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[White]]></category><category><![CDATA[House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brunswick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesterfield County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bank of America Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for Responsive Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond Times-Dispatch]]></category><category><![CDATA[SunTrust Banks Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[USA TODAY]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wachovia Corporation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Layoffs, Trims In Education, Services Coming ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801587.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801587.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The region's governors are preparing to propose hundreds of millions of dollars in budget cuts, including layoffs in Virginia and cuts to education and public safety in Maryland, in an early sign of the impact of the economic slowdown on government services.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232338441" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232338441" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>John Wagner and Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Layoffs,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trims]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Education,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Services]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coming]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[P.J. Hogan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delacey Skinner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isiah Leggett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[T. Eloise Foster]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thornton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ann E. Marimow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel de Vise]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[University System of Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ State Regulators Greenlight Power Line in Northern Va. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100701427.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100701427.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ State regulators approved Dominion Virginia Power's proposal yesterday to build a 65-mile transmission line through rural Northern Virginia, saying that the project is critical to delivering electricity to the power-hungry region and avoiding widespread blackouts. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regulators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenlight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Power]]></category><category><![CDATA[Line]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Le-Ha Anderson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Piedmont Environmental Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominion Resources Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Corporation Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery County (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Duvall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Allegheny Energy Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[PJM Interconnection LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Jersey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Rosenberg Stepping Down as U.S. Attorney ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703023.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100703023.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Chuck Rosenberg has resigned as U.S. attorney in Alexandria, one of the most prominent federal prosecutor's jobs in the country, Justice Department officials said yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Rosenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stepping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attorney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chuck Rosenberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Vick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sami Al-Arian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zacarias Moussaoui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Atlanta Falcons]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football Conference]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Football League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[NFC South Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Attorney's Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Kaine's PAC Still Gets Big Donations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603160.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100603160.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Oct. 6 -- A significant portion of Gov. Timothy M. Kaine's political financing is coming from a small number of wealthy donors who continue to make contributions, even though he cannot seek a second consecutive term, according to a review of campaign finance reports. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Kaine's]]></category><category><![CDATA[PAC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Still]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randal J. Kirk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Kelly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Mark Little]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Holman]]></category><category><![CDATA[John O. Wynne]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nick Nyhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sheila Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzanne W. Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Black Entertainment Television Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forbes Media LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Landmark Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Conference of State Legislators]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Citizen Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Service Employees International Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[State Board of Elections and Virginia Public Access Project]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama, McCain Saturating Va. With TV Ads ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100402064.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100402064.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain are spending nearly $300,000 a day on local television advertising in Virginia, according to an independent analyst, with Obama far outspending McCain as they gear up for the final month of the presidential campaign.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232340287" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232340287" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saturating]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Evan Tracey]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. Frederick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike DuHaime]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trey Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henrico County]]></category><category><![CDATA[James E. Hyland]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mo Elleithee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[James River]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GOP's Warner Hesitant to Back Gilmore, Citing Bailout Stance ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100401831.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100401831.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Oct. 4 -- Retiring Sen. John W. Warner said Saturday that he has not decided whether to vote for the Republican seeking to replace him, citing James S. Gilmore III's opposition to the $700 billion federal bailout of the credit markets. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GOP's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hesitant]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Back]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilmore,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Citing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver L. North]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gilmore Attacks Warner on Bailout Plan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303364.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/03/AR2008100303364.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ROANOKE, Oct. 3 -- Republican James S. Gilmore III sought to revive his underdog bid for U.S. Senate on Friday night in the final scheduled debate of the campaign by repeatedly and adamantly touting his opposition to the $700 billion financial bailout package signed into law earlier in the day. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attacks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jay Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[OPEC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sprint Nextel Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taubman Museum of Art]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ More Road Projects on Chopping Block in Va. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203636.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/02/AR2008100203636.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Just months after slashing $1.1 billion in road and transit projects from the state's six-year transportation spending plan, Virginia officials say the state's fiscal situation is so bad that they will have to hold a special meeting to cut even more projects. ]]></description><dc:creator>Eric M. Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Road]]></category><category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chopping]]></category><category><![CDATA[Block]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Reese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Zimmerman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Transportation Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Transportation Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Benjamin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ As Deadline Nears, Registrations Soar and Voting Begins ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100836.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100836.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ As the 2008 presidential election enters its final lap, one crucial element remains almost lost amid all the campaigning, ads and back-and-forth: People actually need to vote.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232342535" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232342535" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Mark Berman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deadline]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nears,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Registrations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Soar]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Begins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Lindberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Parkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Census Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Local Voter Registration Jumps Ahead Of Deadline ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100083.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100083.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An unprecedented number of voter registration forms have been streaming into the Prince William County registrar's office, and election officials don't expect things to slow down as the Monday registration deadline approaches. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jennifer Buske</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Registration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jumps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ahead]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deadline]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Betty Weimer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia Brendel]]></category><category><![CDATA[EJ Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda Womack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lyle Beefelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William Judicial Center]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Up in Arms Over the Right to Shoot Varmints ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002734.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002734.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ CULPEPER, Va. -- When Mayor Pranas Rimeikis walked into the council chamber and saw it filled with armed men -- guns tucked inside jackets, guns on hips, some people packing their heat so openly they "looked like Pancho Villa" -- he knew his town had inadvertently touched the third rail of... ]]></description><dc:creator>David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Up]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shoot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Varmints]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pranas Rimeikis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Van Cleave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scott Barlow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher H. Snider]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Special Operations Command]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Citizens Defense League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Local Voting Rules ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002619.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002619.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia require an excuse for absentee voting, which can be done by mail or in person at local election boards or designated centers. ]]></description><dc:creator>Post</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Local]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voting]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va., U.S. To Spend $13 Million On Upgrade ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002021.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/30/AR2008093002021.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 30 -- The state and federal governments will spend $13 million to improve passenger rail service south of Fredericksburg as part of a multiyear project to make trains faster and ease traffic in Northern Virginia.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343026" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343026" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spend]]></category><category><![CDATA[$13]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Upgrade]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary E. Peters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amtrak]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotsylvania County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leesburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Springfield]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quantico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Union Station]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Most From Area Vote Yes; Newcomers Balk ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092902947.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092902947.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ By the time the fierce and dramatic wrangling over the financial bailout reached a vote yesterday, most members of Congress who represent the Washington suburbs ended up heeding the pleas of party leaders to support the $700 billion bailout. ]]></description><dc:creator>Steve Hendrix and Michael Laris</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Most]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[Area]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yes;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newcomers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Balk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna F. Edwards]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Edwards (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Collins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Van Hollen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elijah Cummings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roscoe Bartlett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Moran]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Montgomery]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rob Wittman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert C. Scott]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steny Hoyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama, Biden Turn Attention To Outer Suburbs in Virginia ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702690.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092702690.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama and his running mate, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Del.), took their campaign to fast-growing outer suburbs in Virginia yesterday as they appealed for support from the young families and long-distance commuters who they believe could be key to winning the... ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Attention]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Outer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suburbs]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quentin Kidd]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corey Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Gitcho]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Henry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotsylvania County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stafford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Newport University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nissan Pavilion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William Board of County Supervisors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rappahannock River]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Mary Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Student Privacy Spotlighted in Va. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603641.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/26/AR2008092603641.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ School officials in the City of Manassas admitted this week that they skirted federal privacy laws when they divulged personal information about a number of Hispanic students to city inspectors investigating anonymous complaints about overcrowded housing. ]]></description><dc:creator>Brigid Schulte</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Student]]></category><category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spotlighted]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ana Taylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fauquier County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ramon Rodriguez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Odems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barmak Nassirian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Pope]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Hughes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Laura Varela]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers]]></category><category><![CDATA[El Salvador]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Buske]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Lawyers Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debra Odems]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Last N.Y. Suits Against Va. Dealers Settled ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502756.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502756.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ New York City sees the settlement of the last of its lawsuits against 27 gun dealers in five states, including Virginia, as a victory for gun control.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343328" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343328" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Fredrick Kunkle</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Last]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.Y.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Against]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dealers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Settled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Moates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Van Cleave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Moates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Boston (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shop Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Citizens Defense League]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Stores Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ O'Malley Warns Of Budget Cuts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502443.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502443.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley announced yesterday that he has asked state agencies to identify hundreds of millions of dollars in spending cuts, as much as 5 percent of state government expenditures, to balance the budget as major revenue sources decline in the sour economy. ]]></description><dc:creator>Lisa Rein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Warns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cuts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Abbruzzese]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony O'Donnell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul G. Pinsky]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert L. Ehrlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[University System of Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ State Board Revises Rules, Eases Some Controversies ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503876.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092503876.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Virginia State Board of Education approved revisions to special education rules yesterday that omitted two proposals that parents of disabled students had said would severely restrict their rights. But some parents said they are still worried about the state's procedures for evaluating children... ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael Birnbaum</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[State]]></category><category><![CDATA[Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Revises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eases]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Controversies]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas H. Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Education]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Pyle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Fagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Office for Protection and Advocacy]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Under Ban, 6 Troopers Resign as Chaplains ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403471.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403471.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 24 -- Six Virginia State Police troopers have resigned their voluntary positions as chaplains following the implementation of a policy that bans them from referring to Jesus Christ in public prayers. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Under]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban,]]></category><category><![CDATA[6]]></category><category><![CDATA[Troopers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Resign]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaplains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles W. Carrico]]></category><category><![CDATA[Morgan Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Flaherty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Amundson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rex Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Six Virginia State Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg City Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ VDOT Gets $32 Million For Roads As Bonus ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403470.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/24/AR2008092403470.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Virginia will receive an additional $32 million in transportation funds from the federal government, a bonus as the state struggles with how to pay for repairs to its crumbling roads and decaying infrastructure.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343601" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232343601" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Eric M. Weiss</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[VDOT]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[$32]]></category><category><![CDATA[Million]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roads]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bonus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Highway Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Transportation Authority]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pierce Homer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilmerton Bridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Biden Talks to Working Families ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092303527.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092303527.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. told supporters in Northern Virginia yesterday that he and Sen. Barack Obama will do more to turn the economy around than their Republican rival, saying that Sen. John McCain was "profoundly out of touch" with the worries of working... ]]></description><dc:creator>Kristen Mack</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talks]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Working]]></category><category><![CDATA[Families]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kimberly Harris]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judy Mastrangeli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Cohenour]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warner Leads Gilmore By 30 Points, Poll Finds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302292.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/23/AR2008092302292.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III (R) has not gained any traction for his U.S. Senate campaign against Democrat Mark R. Warner during the past year, adding to Democratic hopes that the party will have two Virginia senators next year for the first time since 1970, according to a new Wa... ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Jennifer Agiesta</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[By]]></category><category><![CDATA[30]]></category><category><![CDATA[Points,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Compounding Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan Bailey]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Martin]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frederick County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert G. Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[W. R. Barney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Activists Want Answers on Panel Choice ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202815.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092202815.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Prince William activists are demanding that the Board of County Supervisors explain during today's board meeting their appointment of a provocative critic of illegal immigration to a panel that will craft the county's human services policy. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kristen Mack</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Want]]></category><category><![CDATA[Answers]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Panel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert L. Duecaster]]></category><category><![CDATA[John T. Stirrup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Nohe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corey Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank J. Principi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gainesville]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama, McCain In Tight Race in Va., Poll Shows ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092201895.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092201895.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in an extremely competitive race for Virginia's 13 electoral votes amid widespread public anxiety over the economy and the direction the country is heading, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232344212" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232344212" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Jon Cohen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antha Lyons]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Agiesta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Blanchard]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama, McCain In Tight Race in Va., Poll Shows ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092201964.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/22/AR2008092201964.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are locked in an extremely competitive race for Virginia's 13 electoral votes amid widespread public anxiety over the economy and the direction the country is heading, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Jon Cohen</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Poll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shows]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antha Lyons]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[ABC Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Barr]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Walker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jennifer Agiesta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jimmy Carter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ralph Nader]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Blanchard]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Virginians Giving At Record Pace to Obama, McCain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102528.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/21/AR2008092102528.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- Virginia's status as a battleground state in the presidential election for the first time in more than four decades has led to a dramatic increase in donations from state residents, especially among Democrats in Northern Virginia. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Virginians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Giving]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Record]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pace]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Angel Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Beyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donald Clark]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Kilberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public Citizen Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bryan Cave]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight C. Schar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Thompson (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jenner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orson Swindle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Gramm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Gephardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Cohen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas A. Daschle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Perrelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[William R. Harvey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Woodbridge (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bobbie Kilberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hampton University]]></category><category><![CDATA[M.C. Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Megan Beyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Community College]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia Technology Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wall Street Journal]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illinois]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tennessee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pr. William Prepares for Civil War Anniversary ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/AR2008092000106.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/20/AR2008092000106.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With the 150th anniversary of the Civil War approaching in 2011, Prince William County officials and historians have begun meeting to determine how the war should be commemorated. ]]></description><dc:creator>Nick Miroff</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[William]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prepares]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category><category><![CDATA[War]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anniversary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brendon Hanafin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patricia Jones]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bull Run Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas National Battlefield Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abraham Lincoln]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brentsville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Colgan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dangerfield Newby]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Brown]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Verrill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert E. Lee]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Taft]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil War Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas Museum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old Dominion University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sesquicentennial Commission]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After Va.'s Losses In Court, a Flurry Of Finger-Pointing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Supreme Court's rejection of an anti-spam law is the state's latest high-profile legal defeat, a string of losses that some lawyers see as coincidental but others say reflects the General Assembly's willingness to pass aggressive measures that are more likely to face a constitutional...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232345492" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232345492" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Losses]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flurry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finger-Pointing]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Albo]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Jaynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert O'Neil]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Broaddus]]></category><category><![CDATA[William C. Mims]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warner, Gilmore Spar On Taxes And Partisanship ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091802239.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/18/AR2008091802239.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Republican James S. Gilmore III staked out strong conservative positions and Democrat Mark R. Warner sought to embrace the center, including supporting gun rights in the District, in a debate by Virginia's U.S. Senate candidates yesterday in McLean. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warner,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spar]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taxes]]></category><category><![CDATA[And]]></category><category><![CDATA[Partisanship]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Wallace]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[FOX News Network LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wall Street]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Big Name Jumps Into Va. Politics and Makes Waves ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603546.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603546.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ One month before Sen. Barack Obama selected Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. as his running mate, former Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe was speaking before the Fairfax County Democratic Committee. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Big]]></category><category><![CDATA[Name]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jumps]]></category><category><![CDATA[Into]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[Makes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Waves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Terry McAuliffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian J. Moran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Creigh Deeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Matthews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesterfield County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Democratic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Falls Church News-Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[State Central Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 283,000 Voters Added to Rolls In Va. This Year ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603152.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603152.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 16 -- More than a quarter-million Virginians have registered to vote since the beginning of the year, and jurisdictions that have traditionally voted Democratic are registering voters at the fastest pace, according to statistics released Tuesday by the State Board of Elections. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[283,000]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Added]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rolls]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Gitcho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanover County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Griffis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Petersburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Holsworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenandoah Valley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ GOP Rally Reaches Out To Minorities ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603151.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091603151.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Northern Virginia Republicans, realizing they need to improve their appeal among the region's large ethnic population, will stage a "unity" rally Saturday that they say will draw 1,000 people.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232345998" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232345998" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Amy Gardner</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rally]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reaches]]></category><category><![CDATA[Out]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minorities]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annandale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Hyland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Baileys Crossroads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edison High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County Republican Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Virginians Who Lack Insurance On Rise ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091503021.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/15/AR2008091503021.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The percentage of Virginians going without health insurance is on the rise, and many of those who have coverage through their jobs are paying higher premiums than other U.S. employees, according to a report being released today. ]]></description><dc:creator>Chris L. Jenkins</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Virginians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lack]]></category><category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rise]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Cassidy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Medicaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Oswalt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sean Dobson]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Budget and Tax Policy Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Health Care Foundation]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Falwell Announces Drive To Register Students to Vote ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402316.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402316.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 14 -- Jerry Falwell Jr., chancellor of socially conservative Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., is launching an ambitious drive to get the school's 10,500 students registered to vote, and he's promising to make buses available to shuttle them to the polls on Election Day. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Announces]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drive]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Register]]></category><category><![CDATA[Students]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Falwell Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lynchburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clark Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberty University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marlon Wayans]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tatyana Ali]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Orders 200,000 Additional Voter Registration Forms ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402085.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402085.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 14 -- Virginia elections officials have ordered an additional 200,000 voter registration forms because of shortages in some parts of the state and an expected crush of new registrants over the next three weeks. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orders]]></category><category><![CDATA[200,000]]></category><category><![CDATA[Additional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Registration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forms]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debbie Shrager]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rokey W. Suleman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nancy Rodrigues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Donna Patterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Department of Motor Vehicles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[J. Kirk Showalter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County Office of Voter Registration]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Underage Smoking in Va. Drops ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001001.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001001.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND -- The number of children in Virginia who smoke cigarettes has plummeted in this decade, according to a statewide survey released last week.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232346483" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232346483" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Underage]]></category><category><![CDATA[Smoking]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drops]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tobacco Settlement Foundation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[David M. DeBiasi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fatiah Hosein]]></category><category><![CDATA[William V. Corr]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Lung Association of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids]]></category><category><![CDATA[Community Health Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warner Signs On To Televised Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203029.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203029.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democratic Senate candidate Mark R. Warner has agreed to participate in a televised debate with his GOP opponent, James S. Gilmore III, that may be aired statewide. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Signs]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Televised]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[League of Women Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[NBC Universal Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Jurisdictions Share Data on Ex-Offenders ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203411.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203411.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington area leaders announced yesterday that they have begun sharing information on arrests of offenders on probation and parole in Maryland, Virginia and the District to create a system of borderless supervision of those most likely to commit new crimes. ]]></description><dc:creator>Lisa Rein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Jurisdictions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Share]]></category><category><![CDATA[Data]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ex-Offenders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silver Spring]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Discovery Communications Inc.]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Throngs Greet GOP Ticket in N.Va. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091000978.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091000978.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, took their bid for the White House to Northern Virginia yesterday, rallying thousands of supporters by vowing to shake up Washington and saying they will fight for votes in the increasingly Democratic region. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Peter Slevin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Throngs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greet]]></category><category><![CDATA[GOP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ticket]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[N.Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Camille Farow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Burke]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Markon]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Democratic Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Virginians Fasten Seat Belts as Obama, McCain Dig In ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903084.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903084.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND Afew months ago, many Republicans were predicting that Virginia's status as a battleground state in the presidential election would be a summer sensation that would quickly fade after Labor Day.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232348971" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232348971" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Virginians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fasten]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belts]]></category><category><![CDATA[as]]></category><category><![CDATA[Obama,]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dig]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bolling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Saxman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy Klobuchar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Robb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claire McCaskill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Allen]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oliver North]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ 2 Non-Candidates Prepare for Race That Doesn't Exist ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001219.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/10/AR2008091001219.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ All eyes might be focused on the fall elections, but another looming contest is already taking shape in Fairfax County: the battle to replace Gerald E. Connolly, chairman of the Board of Supervisors, if he is elected to Congress. ]]></description><dc:creator>Amy Gardner</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[2]]></category><category><![CDATA[Non-Candidates]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prepare]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[That]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doesn't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bulova Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith S. Fimian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat S. Herrity]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sharon Bulova]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Film Crew Not a Hit With Supervisor ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903061.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903061.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The debate over illegal immigration in Prince William County flared anew this week after Supervisor John T. Stirrup Jr. (R-Gainesville) called for disciplinary action against the county's communications department. ]]></description><dc:creator>Nick Miroff</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Film]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crew]]></category><category><![CDATA[Not]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hit]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supervisor]]></category><category><![CDATA[John T. Stirrup]]></category><category><![CDATA[Craig Gerhart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Byler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gainesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[YouTube LLC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Mailings Target Fimian's Affiliations ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903396.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903396.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Democrats seeking to take over a Republican-held congressional seat in Northern Virginia are hammering GOP candidate Keith S. Fimian for his ties to a conservative Catholic organization, but Fimian and some Catholic leaders say the attacks are nothing more than religious bigotry. ]]></description><dc:creator>Amy Gardner</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Mailings]]></category><category><![CDATA[Target]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fimian's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Affiliations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith S. Fimian]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Connolly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Donohue]]></category><category><![CDATA[Domino's Pizza Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Habihson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Monaghan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain Rally Moves to Park As School Debate Continues ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090901663.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090901663.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Controversy over whether Fairfax High School should host a presidential campaign rally during school hours today eased somewhat after Republicans moved Sen. John McCain's event to a local park.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232349530" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232349530" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael Alison Chandler and Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rally]]></category><category><![CDATA[Moves]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[As]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Continues]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stuart D. Gibson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack D. Dale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dan G. Storck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Diane Mortiere]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Bellavia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Spencer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Vernon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax High School Parent Teacher Student Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Granby High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robinson Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington-Lee High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Few Arrestees Are Found To Be Illegal Immigrants ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903387.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/09/AR2008090903387.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Fewer than 2 percent of people charged with crimes in Prince William County since the well-publicized crackdown on illegal immigration began in March have turned out to be undocumented, Police Chief Charlie T. Deane told county supervisors yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>Kristen Mack</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Few]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arrestees]]></category><category><![CDATA[Are]]></category><category><![CDATA[Found]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Be]]></category><category><![CDATA[Illegal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Immigrants]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlie Deane]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas M. Guterbock]]></category><category><![CDATA[Corey Stewart]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ School Use For McCain, Palin Rally Bucks Rule ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803163.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090803163.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, are holding a campaign rally at Fairfax High School tomorrow morning in violation of a school system policy, prompting some teachers and community leaders to question district officials. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig and Michael Alison Chandler</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Use]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rally]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rule]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack D. Dale]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Lederer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County School Board]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Amundson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Regnier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pearl Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael D. Shear]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robinson Secondary School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Homeless Shelter On the Hot Seat Again ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802590.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802590.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The on-again, off-again dispute over a Fairfax City homeless center is back on. ]]></description><dc:creator>Chris L. Jenkins</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Homeless]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shelter]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category><category><![CDATA[Again]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lamb Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Wyatt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Lederer]]></category><category><![CDATA[7-Eleven Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gilmore Seeks Some McCain Momentum ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802836.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802836.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 8 -- Republican U.S. Senate candidate James S. Gilmore III's new TV ad tries to latch on to the momentum of the GOP presidential ticket by aligning the former Virginia governor with the policies of Sen. John McCain.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232350046" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232350046" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Momentum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. Frederick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Quentin Kidd]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert G. Marshall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesterfield County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Newport University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas E. Stiles]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia State Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ For the Republican Base, Palin Pick Is Energizing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702747.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702747.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ NORFOLK -- Bill and Sandra Goode were so worried that John McCain might pick a running mate who favored abortion rights that Bill called McCain's presidential campaign headquarters to warn against it. They prayed. And when the Republican senator picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whom they had barely... ]]></description><dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category><category><![CDATA[Base,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Energizing]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earl Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Isle of Wight]]></category><category><![CDATA[Portsmouth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Goode]]></category><category><![CDATA[Regent University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles W. Dunn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cristina Morris]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Willis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gail Gitcho]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Brannis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newport News]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peyton White]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steve Trent]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Goode]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suffolk]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gilmore Campaign Takes Its Fight to TV ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702238.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/07/AR2008090702238.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND, Sept. 7 -- Republican Senate candidate James S. Gilmore III is hitting the airwaves with his first televised campaign commercial as he tries to gain traction against Democratic opponent Mark R. Warner. ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Its]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fight]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[TV]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Hall]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Republican Stands Alone in Congressional Race ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090602707.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090602707.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nov. 4 will be a lonely day for Rep. Frank R. Wolf. With the retirements of Rep. Tom Davis and Sen. John W. Warner, Wolf, who is vying for his 15th term this fall, will be the only Republican incumbent on the ticket in Northern Virginia. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Republican]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stands]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alone]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Frank Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judy M. Feder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[McLean (Virginia)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Beijing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[James E. Rich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Manassas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Begala]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas McGorry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tysons Corner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Winchester]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ambien]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[Congressional District Republican Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dominion Resources Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq Study Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red Bull GmbH]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sudan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shenandoah Valley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Tropical Storm Hanna Drenches Washington Region ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090600481.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090600481.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 19:19:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Tropical Storm Hanna eased its way out of the Washington region early this evening, leaving behind closed roads, spot flooding and at least one fatality, but, despite rains that measured more than six and seven inches in spots, far less destruction than had been feared.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232350517" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232350517" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Matt Zapotosky, Jonathan F. Mummolo and Brigid schulte</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Tropical]]></category><category><![CDATA[Storm]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Drenches]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Region Girds for Hanna's Heavy Rain ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090502047.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/05/AR2008090502047.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Washington region yesterday braced for Tropical Storm Hanna, which was forecast to bring between three and seven inches of rain and winds of more than 30 mph, causing officials to open emergency shelters and unload hundreds of sandbags in areas likely to be hit hardest. ]]></description><dc:creator>Michael Laris and David A. Fahrenthold</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Region]]></category><category><![CDATA[Girds]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanna's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Heavy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roland Bradshaw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Hanna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Annapolis (Maryland)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Armond Mascelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edward Hopkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[James City County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ken Turner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lena H. Sun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin O'Malley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Weil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikita Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Norfolk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Rucker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince George's County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ray Weaver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rosslyn]]></category><category><![CDATA[AWS WeatherBug]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurricane Gustav]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hurricane Isabel]]></category><category><![CDATA[Largo Town Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Emergency Management Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland Natural Resources Police]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Smith]]></category><category><![CDATA[NASCAR]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Weather Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Air Force]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Coast Guard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Transportation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wallops Island]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ In Va., Biden Praises Rival's Speech, Says Key Issues Weren't Addressed ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403267.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403267.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr., the Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate, grudgingly offered good marks yesterday to his Republican counterpart for her first major campaign speech, saying on a swing through Northern Virginia that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin had given a "heck of a political speech." ]]></description><dc:creator>Fredrick Kunkle</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Praises]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rival's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Speech,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Says]]></category><category><![CDATA[Key]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[Weren't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Addressed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[Suzanna Foster]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cindy Lyon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah McAbee]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain Campaign Gets Aggressive in Virginia ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403358.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403358.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- Republican Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign says it has launched an aggressive campaign in Virginia, recruiting volunteers, knocking on doors and calling voters to try to win one of the nation's newest battleground states. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[Aggressive]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michelle Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Bolling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher Saxman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roanoke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Arundel County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlington County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carly Fiorina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Murphy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Cantor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fredericksburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitch Stewart]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert L. Ehrlich]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wagner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Political Roadshow Plays Well In Denver ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203796.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090203796.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ RICHMOND With last week's Democratic National Convention over, it's time to assess how Virginia politicians fared in Denver. Here's a round-up.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232351070" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/metro/special/7;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=421232351070" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Political]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roadshow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plays]]></category><category><![CDATA[Well]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Denver]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian J. Moran]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Creigh Deeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anne Holton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Maher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Halperin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Jackson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cable News Network LP LLLP]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coors Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Home Box Office Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Invesco Field]]></category><category><![CDATA[MSNBC Interactive News LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Cable Satellite Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Daily Show]]></category><category><![CDATA[Time Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rocky Mountains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Former Va. Governor Finds a Forum ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202570.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202570.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 2 -- Former Virginia governor James S. Gilmore III flew 1,000 miles to the Republican National Convention this week to get something he is not getting much of at home: attention. ]]></description><dc:creator>Anita Kumar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Former]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Governor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finds]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gary Byler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hanif Akhtar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Avella]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeb Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert D. Holsworth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vienna]]></category><category><![CDATA[Broadcasting Board of Governors]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sirius XM Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sprint Nextel Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Commonwealth University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Xcel Energy Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Governors Association]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Loudoun Election Fraud Case Ends With Guilty Plea to Lesser Counts ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090201101.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090201101.html?nav=rss_metro/special/7</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A Loudoun County judge yesterday dismissed most of the election fraud case against Republican Mark D. Tate after the former state Senate candidate agreed to plead guilty to two lesser violations for failing to file campaign finance statements. ]]></description><dc:creator>Sandhya Somashekhar</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Loudoun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Election]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fraud]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ends]]></category><category><![CDATA[With]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guilty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plea]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lesser]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cou