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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...

COMMENTARY: Getting Ready to Reopen

As we continue to address the coronavirus outbreak, it is important also to plan for what comes next. To slow the spread of the virus,...

COMMENTARY: Strategic Approach Is Needed Instead of Extending Blanket Prohibitions

Today April 16th) Governor Ralph Northam announced that he will be unilaterally extending the effective date on his Executive Order 53 from April 23...

COMMENTARY: Seeing the Light

I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I'm so happy no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord I saw...

COMMENTARY: Facing The Coronavirus: The Logic of Potterville

IT's A Wonderful Life In director Frank Capra’s 1946 holiday classic movie It’s a Wonderful Life, an initial bank panic sweeps the small town of Bedford Falls....

COMMENTARY: Keep Calm and Carry On

“You have nothing to fear but fear itself . . .” “Keep calm and carry on . . .” Theses are simple words that define ‘the...

COMMENTARY: A Fence, A Wall, and A Better Immigration System

The writer G.K. Chesterton once offered a famous parable to illustrate the difference between sensible reform and thoughtless action. Suppose there was a fence...