By Tom Graham
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Farmville, VA – The 2009 session of Virginia's General Assembly opens later today.
Issue number one is a budget deficit now pegged at almost 3 billion dollars, and growing.
WMRA's Tom Graham sat down recently with Frank Ruff, state senator who Chairs the "Center for Rural Virginia" to ask how he will be approaching the budget challenge.