Governor McDonnell has announced a 585-million-dollar surplus for the state fiscal year that ended in June. The General Assembly’s money committees greeted him with warm applause before he outlined the condition of the Commonwealth’s budget outlook. But as Virginia Public Radio’s Anne Marie Morgan reports, the good fiscal news couldn’t quite obscure the other news that’s haunting him.
Commonwealth Ends Fiscal Year with Budget Surplus
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