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The Surreptitious Disappearance of the Capitol Square Preservation Council

  Breathtaking. Unsettling. Healing. Those meant-to-catch-your-attention words come from an article by the British newspaper The Guardian on the “reimagined” statue of Stonewall Jackson, currently on display at a contemporary “art” museum in...

If The World Is Getting Hotter, Why On Day 14 After Paralyzing Ice Storm Does SWVA Still Look Like Frozen Tundra With Wind Chills...

Full disclosure: One, I am not a climatologist. Two, I understand the difference between weather...

The 45-Day April Special Election Is NOT “Affordable”

AFFORDABLE The goal for 2026 is affordable! A special election to address ONLY a single issue,...

Steps To Help Have A Healthy Brain In Your Later Years

By Dr. Thomas Chin Virginia native Dr. Thomas Chin MD attended William and Mary, the Medical...

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...

Virginia Faces Power Shortages as Lawmakers Stall on Energy Reform

Here we go again. As the 2025 election year heats up and warnings rise about electricity shortfalls this summer, the legislators behind Virginia’s coming ban...

Roanoke City Council Shares the Blame

It is very disingenuous, but easy for the city council to blame the previous city manager, who, by the way they hired, for the...

Youngkin Moves to Curb Energy Price Hikes, Questions Clean Economy Act

With one exception, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has now vetoed the contested energy bills that he sought to amend at the 2025 General Assembly’s reconvened...

Lawsuit Challenges NRC Rules on Small Nuclear Reactors

Virginia is not directly involved, but with our nuclear industrial base, a pending federal lawsuit over the authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is crucial...

Why Tax Exemptions for Harvard and Confederate Groups Should Stand

Every taxpayer dollar sent to any university or private entity should be closely scrutinized. In the case of the billions sent to Harvard University...

The High Cost of Uncertainty for Virginia’s Workers and Businesses

Asked nearly 40 years ago what he needed most, less regulation or lower taxes, a small manufacturer of machine tools replied: “We need both,”...