Menhaden, the fish that has been the focus of years of political squabbling, got a starring role as the General Assembly took its last, largely technical steps to give Virginia a new, if much-delayed, state budget.
Gov. Abigail Spanberger’s 14 final amendments to the budget compromise, which were worked out 11 days ago, won approval in both the House of Delegates and the state Senate. With that, nothing else is needed to make the budget law.
Read the full story in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
