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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...

We Need to Help That Poor Billionaire Out

By Dick Hall-Sizemore, this originally appeared in Bacon's Rebellion and is reprinted here by agreement.  With all the huffing and puffing about CRT, face masks,...

UVA Board Extends President Ryan’s Contract for Three Years

By James A. Bacon, this was originally published in Bacon's Rebellion. The University of Virginia Board of Visitors voted unanimously Friday to extend President Jim...

VMI Conflict Now Focused on DEI Implementation

By James A. Bacon, this first appeared in Bacon's Rebellion. Aside from the occasional Washington Post hit job, the Virginia Military Institute has faded from the daily...

What Church Is Really Like

This was first published on breakpoint.org. Many Christians, rightly concerned about protecting the Church’s witness in front of the wider world, have embraced claims about the...

A Disastrous Week for UVA

By Bert Ellis, this first appeared in Bacon's Rebellion. Open letter from Bert Ellis, president of The Jefferson Council, to members of the University of...

Some Common Ground on Energy Policy But There is No Turning Back

One of the things I learned over the last seven decades is this:  if you have two or more opposing sides in a conflict,...