For a guy who has many reasons to smile—the presidency of utility giant Dominion, a fat paycheck, such plush perquisites as the rectorship of U.Va.,...

Regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s gubernatorial election—OK, so a lot of people have a pretty good idea who’s going to win—one...

Chris Jankowski has a hobby that helps his day job. The long-limbed, bespectacled lobbyist, in effect, runs campaigns for Republicans, supplying them with...

Forget about the governor’s election and down-ticket races. The battle for the House? Practically a nonevent. The real action may be in the Virginia...

What if Virginia goes Republican? Political columnist Jeff Schapiro speculates on the fallout from a possible GOP sweep of statewide offices.

As if the state’s snakebit computer contractor, Northrop Grumman, hasn’t enough to answer for. Add to complaints about rotten service, rising...

In the 1970s, a common sight across the state was a bumper sticker that read, “Welcome to Virginia: Owned and Operated by Vepco.“ Thirty years...

Jeff E. Schapiro is out of the office. His column will resume next weekend.

With four months left in his term, Gov. Tim Kaine is not quite toast. His legacy will include big bursts of partisanship; bigger holes in the budget. Another...

It’s popping up in Northern Virginia. In suburban Richmond, too, it’s become a talking point. Bob McDonnell’s moldy graduate-school thesis...

Columnist Jeff Schapiro says Gov. Tim Kaine’s plans for painful spending cuts will echo in the campaign to choose his succesor.

Though school bells are no longer ringing for Republican Del. Phil Hamilton of Newport News, they are for other legislators who have a big say in spending...

Tim Kaine is losing the mojo he may have never had. His four-year term as governor is winding down. So, too, are the chances of the fellow Democrat who...

Creigh Deeds makes George W. Bush sound like Barack Obama. In a speech Friday streamed on his Web site, Deeds, the Democratic nominee for governor, sought...

Referendum on Warner. Columnist Jeff Schapiro says Mark Warner isn’t running for anything, but his legacy on VITA may swing votes in the gubernatorial...

Absent from the Bob McDonnell-for-governor narrative: Republicans can do a better job than Democrats—on the budget, revenue, government nuts and...

The Democratic candidate for governor is pummeled by Republicans for playing coy on new taxes for roads. The Democrat squirms; somehow, still manages to...

As Virginia deals with the headaches—financial, political and administrative—of turning over its info-tech system to deep-pocketed defense...

Political columnist Jeff Schapiro says the Republican running for governor of Virginia is once again running against the Democrats in Washington.

Jeff E. Schapiro’s column on Virginia government and politics will resume next week.

Mike Moore, former head computer guy for San Diego County, knows that doing business with Northrop Grumman requires giving the giant company the business....

Virginia Republicans are bashing Tim Kaine as an occasional governor more interested in his other gig, the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee....

For Virginia Republicans, being out of power quite literally has a cost—about $150,000. That, insiders say, is the deficit the GOP faces after a...

As head of the Virginia Association of Counties, a group that lobbies at the state Capitol for local government, Jim Campbell meets a lot of people. One...

Virginia’s $2.3 billion smooch with Northrop Grumman for computer services is behind schedule and another $6 million in the red. More than a year...

Giant tax increase for cops, kids and welfare notwithstanding, could Mark Warner’s legacy as governor be summed up with a four-letter word: VITA?...

In his “Brady Bunch” ad, Bob McDonnell, sitting on the front stoop of his house in the Henrico suburbs, is typecast. The message—as the...

And then there were two? Three names for governor appear on the Democratic primary ballot: Creigh Deeds, Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. Beyond the curiosity...

Times-Dispatch staff writer Jeff Schapiro recalls being pulled off a political convention to cover the manhunt for the Briley brothers. Word was, they...

It’s an oldie but maybe no longer a goodie. Virginia’s 62-year-old prohibition against union membership as a condition for a job—the...