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Virginia Foundation for Research and Economic Education (FREE), a business interest association in Richmond, recently released their report card for all legislators in the state. According to the “powerful business coalition,” Del. Matt Lohr scored a 63 in cumulative business rating, a 56 rating for this year’s session, and an 87% on the 2008 Voter [...]

Sen. Mark Obenshain’s SB542, which was drafted “to prohibit any group providing abortions from also providing information or course materials on human sexuality or sexually transmitted diseases” in schools, was mentioned in today’s DNR article about tolls on 81. SB542 was killed in the State Senate yesterday, along with two other abortion-related bills.

The Virginia Commission for the Arts is Virginia’s primary re-granting agent for the arts, and the GA’s support is directly related to funding we receive locally. As seen on page 33 in this PDF, within Delegate Matt Lohr’s District 26 in 2006-07, the following organizations received funding totaling over $53,000: the Arts Council of the [...]

When bills get introduced in General Assembly, they have to survive a subcommittee before being voted on by the Assembly. Currently, bills can be killed by two members of a subcommittee, without the public knowing which members of a subcommittee voted to kill it.
On Wednesday, the majority of Republican members of the house (including Harrisonburg’s [...]

Last year, Delegate Matt Lohr’s “gay-straight alliance bill” (HB 1727) was shot down, because it couldn’t get through the Republican controlled Senate. In today’s DNR, Lohr said he’s dropping the GSA bill because, “It’s not worth going through and making that a central piece of legislation knowing it’s not going to get out of the [...]

Although General Assembly is not yet in session, one of Delegate Matt Lohr’s bills has already being scrutinized by members of his own party.

Here’s a brief look at the five city precincts, and 29 in the county:

I’ve posted the ballots, as well as a “voter guide” for State Senate, so here’s another “voter guide” for House of Delegates.

I am a voter in Harrisonburg and I received your flyer about immigration in the mail today. Del. Lohr, I am deeply disappointed, not simply because of your stance on immigration, but because you seem to be ignoring some key facts and perpetrate some common fallacies.

During the last session, efforts in General Assembly to put a 36 percent interest rate cap on payday loans failed. This time, the push for an interest rate cap is coming from Virginia’s municipalities.
The Staunton City Council, at the behest of council member Bruce Elder, recently passed a resolution that will ask the General [...]

It was on the front page of The Washington Post yesterday, and in the DNR today: the state GOP is getting serious about illegal immigration. Harrisonburg’s Delegate, Matt Lohr — whose bills to impose interpreter fees for non-English speaking persons in court got squashed in committee during the last session — says, “They have had [...]

It’s only August, and we’ve had the second Matt Lohr teenager knocking on our front door. “Not interested,” Deb told him, firmly. It was only July when we had our first one. “Not if Lohr was the last man on Earth,” I told that one.
The questions: Why return, after the first rebuff? Don’t they have [...]

Not surprisingly, the tide of public opinion has undoubtedly turned against the new driver fees imposed on the voting public by the General Assembly earlier this month.

In case you didn’t catch the story in today’s DNR, starting July 1, drivers convicted of reckless or aggressive driving in Virginia will be fined three annual payments of $350, according to a new state law. That’s just one of many fines. I remember cook telling me about this several weeks ago, but I didn’t [...]