IT partner to receive $9,000 per state laptop

Audits, like nights, are cold and lonely, but Leonard M. “Len” Pomata and his boss, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, are standing by Northrop Grumman even though the company’s missed deadlines and overbilling are hard to understand. This either demonstrates naiveté sufficient to draw cynical sniffs from Tammy Wynette or something else the country star never considered, that $205,250 buys more love than $545 million.

Distant are the days when Gov. Timothy M. Kaine whisked across the commonwealth in the empyreal embrace of Barack Obama’s presidential candidacy, or what may be called America’s Third Great Awakening, a time, like the second, when women swooned, spirits waxed euphoric and reason rested. His hopes of landing on the ticket with Obama cast into a state budget chasm, Kaine today plays out strings while muddy water seeps under the door. Now he hopes only to avoid getting wet.