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Steve Contorno

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Steve Contorno is the Virginia political correspondent for The Washington Examiner, covering state government and campaigns in a key battleground state. He joined the Examiner in 2011 after covering state politics and local government for the Green Bay Press-Gazette, winning statewide reporting awards. Prior to that, he interned for the Chicago Sun-Times in its statehouse bureau. Contorno holds a bachelor's degree in News-Editorial Journalism from the University of Illinois where he toiled at The Daily Illini for four years, and has a master's in Public Affairs Reporting from the University of Illinois-Springfield.

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  • McDonnell makes few changes to transportation, Medicaid deals

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Tue, Mar 26, 2013

    Gov. Bob McDonnell made few substantial changes to the massive tax hike legislation needed to pay for long-delayed roadwork across Virginia and largely went along with a bipartisan agreement to expand Medicaid to provide health care to 400,000 additional Virginians. The Republican leader had...

  • McDonnell wants exemptions for drone ban

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell moved Monday to exempt from a two-year drone moratorium college campuses and law enforcement agencies in emergency situations. The amendments to the bill were announced just hours before a Tuesday midnight filing deadline. Lawmakers return to Richmond next week to...

  • Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli compared abortion to slavery in 2008

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Mon, Mar 25, 2013

    Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli took heat last week for comparing the anti-abortion movement to the fight against slavery in a 2012 video that Democrats recently disseminated, but it's not the first time he's revealed similar thoughts publicly. The outspoken conservative and...

  • Southeast shooting leaves one D.C. man dead

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

    A D.C. man died at a local hospital Saturday night after being shot on the District's Southeast side. At 9:20 p.m. Saturday, police officers working in the area responded to sounds of gunshots on the 4300 block of Fourth Street SE. After arriving on the scene, officers saw a man get in a...

  • McDonnell facing deadline to act on road funding bill

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell must decide by midnight Monday whether to sign, veto or amend legislation that would raise roughly $1 billion a year in new taxes and fees to pay for long-delayed road work in the state. The transportation package is one of hundreds of bills on which McDonnell must...

  • Gaithersburg man killed after driving truck into tree

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

    A 49-year-old Gaithersburg man died early Sunday morning when he drove off the road and struck a tree in his hometown. Police have identified the deceased as Jose Antonio Ayala of Fullview Court in Gaithersburg. Around 1:02 a.m., an office-duty employee of the police department called...

  • Man complains woman hit him in the head with a shoe

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

    A man called police early Sunday morning complaining that a woman assaulted him with a shoe at a nightclub on the District's northeast side. The complainant reported a physical altercation with a woman around 2 a.m. at Ibiza DC Nightclub on the 1200 block of First Street NE near the Noma Metro...

  • McDonnell could undo deal on Medicaid expansion

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Sun, Mar 24, 2013

    Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell won't rule out altering a bipartisan agreement to expand Medicaid coverage in the state, despite Democrats' insistence that McDonnell had promised not to mess with the deal. Republicans and Democrats last month moved to set up a special panel of 10 lawmakers to...

  • Ken Cuccinelli says transportation, Medicaid deals unconstitutional

    Steve Contorno

    Updated: Fri, Mar 22, 2013

    Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli said Friday that critical provisions of a transportation-funding plan and a planned expansion of Medicaid are not legal, raising the possibility that two of the General Assembly's biggest achievements could be killed before they take effect. In a legal...

  • Virginia college sports teams in the red, students pay more to save them

    Steve Contorno

    Published: Wed, Mar 20, 2013

    Virginia Commonwealth University has punched its ticket to the NCAA collegiate basketball tournament. Two other state schools, Liberty and James Madison universities, also have a shot at joining the 64-team field. But the rest of Virginia's colleges didn't make the big dance, which opens...


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