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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...

AEP Raised Rates for Customers Again. Why?

This winter, heating bills across the country are expected to increase by 17% – the highest cost in more than a decade. According to...

Lt. Gov. Sears Calls For School Choice–“Hope And Future For Every Child”

Lieutenant Governor Winsome Sears (R), the first Black woman to hold that office, recently issued this press release calling on the General Assembly to...

It’s About The Rules

If our first week back showed us anything, it’s that a republic based on democratic principles can be messy. While it may not always...

If This Doesn’t Get You Admitted to UVa, What Will?

By James Bacon and originally published on Bacon's Rebellion and shared here by prior agreement.  The producer of The School of Limmy, a Korean-American neuroscience major...

Moses Ezekiel, Jackson’s Statue, and Institutional Anti-Semitism?

Recently, David Bernstein, the author of Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews, remarked: “When you have an ideology that pretends to know...

You Support Free Speech? Show It

By James A. Bacon and first shared on Bacon's Rebellion and shared her by permission. The leaders of Virginia's colleges and universities are increasingly sensitive...