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Commentary

Closing Virginia’s Education Gaps: Funding, Choice, and Accountability

It shouldn’t be hard for both political parties to agree that among those who suffered most from covid school shut-downs were low-income children. In the National Assessment of Educational Progress...

Last Week Proves Again Wind and Solar Cannot Take the Heat

Once again, a spell of hot weather has proven that our economy and comfort depend...

VA Elections Should Be About Virginia’s Future — Not a Referendum on President Trump

Senator Tim Kaine recently sent out a fundraising email where he quoted the Washington Post...

One is Enough: End the Front License Plate Requirement in Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia currently mandates that most passenger vehicles display two license plates—one on...

Primary Results Will Force Spanberger to Prove if She’s a Centrist

After this week’s primary results, Virginia’s more moderate center is all but dead. In two...

An Abuse of Power

I was shocked to hear of the pay increase proposed by Roanoke Mayor David Bowers and council members Bill Bestpitch, Sherman Lea and...

Griffith Will Not Support Any Attempt to Exempt Lawmakers From Obamacare

An article was published recently in Politico, a respected inside-the-beltway news journal, saying that some Democrats are trying to exempt Congressmen and Congressional...

The Ethanol Mandate: Hurting American’s Economy

Who’s paying the costs of the federal ethanol mandate?  Every family who shops in a grocery store or dines at a restaurant, every...

Genesis One to Genesis Two

In 1967, historian Lynn White, Jr. ignited a firestorm that burns still today. In a widely discussed article titled, “The Historical Roots of...

Medicare: Sticking With What Works – Lessons for Republicans and Democrats

The Democratic and Republican Congressional budget plans proffered by House and Senate budget committee chairs must be viewed more as acts of political...

Veterans Should Never Be Forgotten

To the City of Roanoke Ken Cronin and employees that spray cleaned the Veteran's War Memorial at Church Avenue and Second Street SW...