Virginia's Best of the Blogosphere: Vol. 08-02
The big story over the past week has definitely been the Supreme Court of Virginia’s ruling in Marshall v. Northern Virginia Transportation Authority. While Jon Sorensen of Virginia Intelligent Transportation Systems was the first to note that the Commonwealth’s highest court would be making its decision in the case last Friday, it was Raising Kaine’s founder Lowell who broke the story of the decision: BREAKING: VA Supreme Court Throws Out Key Part of 2007 Transportation Bill on Friday February 29, 2008 at 10:26:54 AM EST. Within minutes to a few hours over 30 more blogs “broke” the news and began the analysis that would consume the Commonwealth’s blogosphere over the past week.The race for 2009 heated up this week spurned by the Supreme Court’s decision last week. It was The Shad Plank, one of the MSM’s forays into the blogosphere, that first posited the idea that the Court’s ruling would be trouble for Attorney General Bob McDonnell. Four days later Ben Tribbett the founder of Not Larry Sabato asked Is Bob McDonnell Finished? This began of string of assaults on McDonnell from the Left: A Tale of Two Bob M’s by Eileen of VB Dems, and even more from Bill Bolling’s Right: Bob McDonnell, What Happened??? from Red Virginia, Looking Towards 2009 by Soph of NOVA TownHall. Publius right here on The Virginian Federalist was the first to note that every candidate for Governor in 2009 on both sides of the aisle supported the Transportation Authority. Chris Beer founder of the Mason Conservative had two informative posts this week regarding Bolling’s Big Week. This morning Jim Hoeft, founder of Bearing Drift, asked Did Bolling Play it Safe?, questioning Lieutenant Governor Bolling’s advocacy of the conservative cause.
Conservativa broke a story claiming that a planted campaign blog has emerged in the Virginia blogosphere, but no one will say which blog it is.
With Tycoon Tuesday this past week, Vivian Paige has a very interesting post on the comparison of Superdelegates and Caucuses, and Publius discussed Tycoon Tuesday by the Numbers looking at how big Hillary’s victory really was.
Also this week, Waldo Jaquith added to his feats in blogging by adding full, archived video of both General Assembly chambers to Richmond Sunlight.
The Virginian Federalist continued its series on General Assembly bills that the MSM is not discussing, this week tackling HB 908, HB 1185, SB 636, SB 609, SB 476, SB7, and SB 436.
While we will probably not usually talk about what didn’t get good coverage in the past week, it is important to note that NO ONE did a comprehensive post on the constitutionality of the VA Senate’s budget. There were many posts about the topic, but none reached the level necessary to land in the Best of the Blogosphere.
That concludes this week’s Best of the Blogosphere exclusively here on The Virginian Federalist. As always if you see any notable blog posts each week please email them to bestblogs@virginianfederalist.com. Read More. . . .
