Rt. 262 (Staunton bypass) at Rt. 11 ... it looks as if a climbing lane is being added to the southbound side. Work has been underway for several weeks.
... the health of the nation goes on life support.The internet seems filled with stories about Virginia Congressman Gerald Connolly and his staff bullying some tea party woman. Much is being made of the woman being small and not likely to inflict harm.
A little background from the Washington Post:
Protesters targeted Rep. Gerald E. Connolly (D-Va.), a first-term [...]
Transurban Group (TCL.AU) said Thursday it rejected an unsolicited, incomplete and highly conditional takeover offer from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
In a lean season for in-depth transportation debate, the Virginia gubernatorial contest -- won this week by Republican Bob McDonnell -- became a proving ground for nationally relevant questions about how to manage the infrastructure of congestion-plagued but still-growing metro areas.
In a statement released Thursday evening, Leggett said engineers re-established a connection between the county's 800 traffic lights and the computer that controls them, so lights are now responding to commands from the computer.
Virginia Railway Express officials have denied Amtrak's challenge to a plan to have an international company operate the commuter rail service's trains.
This stark tree along the Staunton bypass represents many trees in the Shenandoah Valley and Blue Ridge Mountains in this first week of November ... leaves have turned colors and fallen to the ground. There are some including Bradford pears that are just beginning their [...] 
Chaz Haywood-Evans, George Allen, Suzanne ObenshainSo far it’s looking like this buffoon Dave Marsden, who barely escaped getting beaten by an under-funded, relative unknown in his House District race this week, is the most likely Democrat to run for the Senate seat now vacated by Ken Cuccinelli in the 37th Senate District. Marsden even has [...]
Oh this is beautiful.
Tagged: 2009 Virginia election, Bill Bolling, Bob McDonnell, Election night, Ken Cuccinelli [...] Unless I’m missing something—always a possibility, since I’m not a techhead—Motorola has positioned its Droid as the upstart challenger to the iPhone, which (by implication) casts Apple as the Establishment Product. Apple = the new IBM? Wow.
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It's a big weekend for rail enthusiasts in Western Virginia. Saturday, a train heads from Roanoke to Bluefield, and Sunday they head north from Roanoke past Waynesboro to Shenandoah.Some more postgame analysis (like you haven’t had enough!) from RCP.
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WaPo reports that both Janet Oleszek and Del. David Bulova are both out of the running for AG-elect Ken Cuccinelli’s Springfield-based Senate seat; Olesek because Democrats forced her aside in favor of someone able to speak in complete sentences and Bulova likely because his House [...]
The White European Caucasion Party... err... I mean the Democrat Congressional Hispanic Caucus has threatened the White House with voting AGAINST the ObamaCare bill if that bill REFUSES to give those awesomely-kewl illegal border runners free health care coverage.
I mean, more free than what they get now with the [...]
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Below The Beltway has been nominated in the ‘Best Political Blog’ category in the 2009 Weblog Awards. You can vote for the nomination here.
While you’re there, be sure to check out the other categories, there plenty of great blogs, [...]
Now this should be interesting. Gerry Connolly has handed Keith Fimian a wagonload of political ammunition for his challenge over the past several days, and I’m betting he’s going to start using it right away. Bully for him!
Keith Fimian will be holding a press conference on Saturday, [...]
The vote on the health care reform bill may slide to 
