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va. lawmakers are coming back. but where's the punch line?(Local)

Byline: KERRY DOUGHERTY

Six days into 2008 and already I've got the glums.

Not because the Hoos and the Hokies blew their bowl games. And not because the family-owned newspaper I've worked for since 1984 is on the auction block. (No point in getting exercised about cold corporate decisions. That's capitalism . If you like when you score a merit raise, you can't complain when you're put up for sale.)

My disappointment is with those slackers in the General Assembly. By my count, they'd filed only about 600 bills as of Friday morning. That won't do. Thousands more are needed so legislators can do what they do every year - breathlessly vote on measures they've barely ...

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