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Does Spending $62 Billion on Utility Batteries Lower Your Cost of Electricity? Of Course Not

The 2026 General Assembly is likely to amend the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) to greatly expand the construction of utility-scale batteries for our electric grid. Based on the current...

SERWAN ZANGANA: Political Failures Led To Recent Murder of Corrections Officer In Grayson County

Correctional Officer Jeremy Hall was killed on November 17, 2025, by an inmate at River...

Sen. Suetterlein Files 2026 Legislation Expanding Tax Relief & Education

Virginia legislators started filing bills for the 2026 General Assembly this week, and Senator David...

Progressives Urge Assembly to Soak the Rich, But Likely Tax Increases Will Reach Everyone

As a new Democratic Party trifecta looms in Virginia, a progressive policy group has floated...

Dissecting the Blue Wave: Turnout

Gov. Glenn Youngkin yesterday blamed Tuesday’s shellacking of the Republican Party in Virginia on the...

The Detrimental Effect of Cell Phones in Many of Virginia’s Public Schools

I read a rather sad commentary three days ago entitled “At This School, the Cellphones Rule” written by James A. Bacon of Bacon’s Rebellion...

Justice, Often Applied Differently

As humans across the world are seeking justice, they must realize there is a price for it, which means justice could be bought or...

Biden Administration Can’t Get Its Story Straight on COVID

President Biden has repeatedly said that on COVID-19 he’d “follow the science.” His Administration’s shifting and contradictory positions on pandemic precautions suggest otherwise. Let’s look...

Play Stupid Games, Win Stupid Prizes

By Kerry Dougherty and originally published at Kerry: Unemployed & Unedited. Shared here by agreement with Bacon's Rebellion.  Look who’s crying now. Virginia Democrats, who launched...

Key Victories for Virginians in 2022 Legislative Session, But Work Remains

By JC Hernandez and originally published in Bacon's Rebellion and shared here by agreement. Hernandez is state director of Americans for Prosperity-Virginia.  This past legislative...

It’s The People’s Money and The People Need Tax Breaks

By Secretary of the Commonwealth Kay Coles James  This year the average American family is forced to spend an extra $5,200 for the products they need and...