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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...

Consumer Cost Estimates Rise for Green Economy

--By Steve Haner and originally published as a commentary from the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. Customer cost projections for compliance with the Virginia...

Ticket to Ride: An Unlikely Valley Metro Bus Advocate

-By Maynard Keller Be honest. How many of you have ridden a public bus to work, to the grocery store, or to a doctor's appointment?...

A Definitive “No” To The WOTUS Rule

In January, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (the Army Corps)’s published a final Waters of the United States,...

Taxpayers Fund Biden’s Disruptive Campaign Stop in Va Beach

By Kerry Dougherty and first published on her blog and shared with permission from Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited and on Bacon's Rebellion.  As usual, some local...

Washington Post Columnist Continues Quest for Pulitzer at VMI’s Expense

With an emailed request for statement verification to SOVP Chairman Matt Daniel this week, Washington Post Columnist Ian Shapira signaled his intention to publish...

Woke Army Puts American Hindu Mom in its Crosshairs

By Asra Q. Normani, this first appeared on Bacon's Rebellion and Normani's substack Asra Investigates and is shared here by previous agreement. The "Bacon's...