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VIRGINIA’S LOCAL GOVERNMENTS LOOK TO STATE FOR HELP
By MICHAEL MARTZRichmond Times-Dispatch 12/03/2012For Virginia’s beleaguered local governments, the upcoming session of the General Assembly comes down to one thing: money. With no sign of relief for local real estate revenues, localities say they need help from their other major funding source, the state government, to weather a slow economic recovery from the recession.