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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...

For Now, General Assembly Makes Dreams of Commercialization of Marijuana Go Up In Smoke

By Victoria Cobb, this text was originally published by the Virginia Family Foundation. Last week, the House General Laws committee carried over until 2023 SB...

Delegate Chris Head Rebukes House Democrats as “Out-of-Touch” Over Rising Gas Prices

Richmond, VA — On Wednesday, March 9, 2022, Delegate Chris Head (R-Botetourt), offered a pointed reply to Democratic members of the House of Delegates...

Thoughts on The Virginia Tech / Amazon Collaboration

I am writing in response to the article title Virginia Tech/ Amazon Establish Machine Learning Research Leadership, published on your website on March 10,...

VA Senate Violating Committee Protocol to Protect Infanticide

This was originally published on March 7 by the Virginia Family Foundation. On Friday, March 4, a Senate Rules committee, comprised of 12 Democrats and...

Youngkin: “The General Assembly Should Give Virginians Their Money Back”

Facing the highest gas prices on record and the highest inflation rates in decades, families across Virginia are having to do more with their...

Bravery of Ukrainians Evokes W. H. Auden’s Classic Poem”

Does anyone else find themselves utterly humbled by the bravery of the Ukrainian defenders — and also by the Russians demonstrating against Putin’s invasion? There...