• Roanoke—Wednesday, September 8, 7 pm, Natural Science Center, Virginia Western Community College, 3102 Colonial Avenue, Roanoke (Google Maps) (Campus Map, See Building N)
• Norfolk—Wednesday, September 22nd, 7 pm, Roper Performing Arts Center, Tidewater Community College, 340 Granby St (Google Maps) (Campus Map)
• Fairfax—Tuesday, October 5th, 7 pm, Mason Hall, 4400 University Dr, Fairfax (Google Maps) George Mason University (Campus Map)
• Danville—Monday, October 18th, 7 pm, Regional Center for Advanced Technology and Training, Danville Community College, 121 Slayton Ave, Danville (Google Maps) (Campus Map)
• Stafford—Monday, December 6th, 7 pm, University Hall, University of Mary Washington (Stafford Campus), 121 University Blvd, Fredericksburg (Google Maps)
• Richmond—Friday, December 17th, approximately 10 am, 9th Floor Appropriations Room, General Assembly
  Building (time approximate, after Governor’s remarks to the money committees), 910 Capitol Square, Richmond (Google Maps)

In addition to Chairman Cole, Delegates Rob Bell, Chris Jones, and Jackson Miller serve on the subcommittee.

For more on the redistricting process, visit Legislative Services’ Redistricting Page.

Bristol Motor Speedway is the most popular track on the Nationwide Stock Car Series circuit, often drawing over 100,000 fans. And it’s one of the fastest short track courses on the circuit.

Check out details of the race at Food City Racing and Bristol Motor Speedway. If you can’t make it the Speedway, ESPN will carry the Food City 250 live at 8 p.m. on Friday, August 20.

Coverage of Griffith’s selection appears at Roanoke’s NBC affiliate, WSLS 10 and TriCitySports.com.

In addition to serving in the House, Del. Villanueva is executive vice president at SEK Solutions, a growing small business headquartered in Virginia Beach. He brings private sector and government experience to the work of the advisory board’s work in support of expanding jobs and growing the economy.

Learn more from Virginia Business’s coverage and the Governor’s press release announcing the commission.

One of the Tobacco Commission’s main goals is to bring prosperity back to our region. This is why the commission invested $5 million into a tire research facility that will be located at VIR. The goal is to develop a new passenger tire that will increase car mileage by three to five miles per gallon.

The new center will be located adjacent to the Virginia International Raceway in Halifax County.

Check out the full story in The News Leader.

Marshall knows something about tires—a former professional race car driver, in both 1999 and 2000, he finished 3rd at the 24 Hours of Daytona Race, the pre-eminent sports car endurance race in the U.S.

Del. Terry Kilgore chairs TICR and several other Caucus Members serve as commissioners—Wat Abbitt, Kathy Byron, and Tommy Wright.

Filling in for Jimmy, guest host Congressman Randy Forbes and the Speaker discussed the lessons Washington can learn from Virginia:

• The no-tax-increase way from a $4.2 Billion deficit to a balanced budget
• How to foster a pro-business, pro-jobs economy

As well as the sure-fire method to stop job creation—create uncertainty for business with the Obama/Congressional Democrat unclear agenda of bloated government, new taxes, and increased regulation.

The State Board of Elections has the unofficial returns at its website:

• HD 26: Wilt Defeats Degner
• HD 27: Robinson Defeats Brown

Delegate-elect Wilt will represent the 26th District, which includes the City of Harrisonburg and part of Rockingham County. Wilt succeeds former delegate Matt Lohr, who resigned to become Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Delegate-elect Robinson will represent the 27th District, which covers a portion of Chesterfield County. Robinson succeeds former delegate Sam Nixon, who resigned to become Virginia’s Chief Information Officer and head of the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA).

Biographical information on the two delegates-elect is available on their respective websites:

• Tony Wilt’s Biography
• Roxann Robinson’s Biography

During his tenure as Speaker, Howell has led the way in reducing Virginia’s per capita expenditures in the legislature from 40th in the Nation to 46th. And, with Senate Democrats running up a tab on the other side of the Capital, you can’t expect much better than that.

See the full press release at the Speaker’s website.

Robinson, who will run in Chesterfield’s HD 27, joins Tony Wilt, nominee in HD 26, as the Republican ticket for June 15. The special elections were called to fill vacancies caused by the resignation of two valuable members of the Caucus to join the McDonnell Administration—Sam Nixon to become Virginia’s CIO and Matt Lohr to become commissioner of the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

Speaker Howell and Delegates G. Glenn Oder (Newport News) and Lee Ware (Powhatan) will serve on the Commission, chaired by Fred Malek, founder and chairman of Thayer Capital Partners in executing the charge the Governor has set for the Commission, “We must make government simpler and easier to use, more efficient and more effective. That is the work of this Commission. The Commission members will conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the state’s agencies, programs, and services to find out how we can make our state government work better for its owners, the people of Virginia. I look forward to working with these reform-minded leaders to examine how Virginia can better serve the taxpayers. Our state and local government employees have made Virginia one of the best managed states in the nation and just like them, I will always seek to make us even better.”

The Speaker has a long history of seeking these kinds of reform solutions, promoting new ideas and market-based reforms to improve the delivery of government services, maximize the return on investment of limited taxpayer dollars, and minimize the costs of government wherever possible.

The Speaker and Delegates Oder and Ware look forward to pursuing the many opportunities for reform in Virginia’s government with the Governor, Commission Chairman Malek, and the other member’s of the Commission.

Check out details in the Governor’s press release.