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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...

Celebrating Electric Lineworkers

Wednesday, July 10, is National Lineworker Appreciation Day. At Appalachian Power, it naturally is a day in which we celebrate our line mechanics and...

Modern “Progressives” and “Socialists” Offer Up Historical Name Confusion

What is a Progressive? It is currently looking like in June that at least twenty-five Democrats are seeking their party’s nomination for the presidency. With...

The Legitimacy of Political Parties

With the government shutdown now over, it is historically intriguing that one of the central players, President Donald Trump, with help from the Democrats,...

Virginia’s Airports are the Gateway to a Strong Economy

We are fortunate to call Southwest Virginia our home.  The people, communities and our natural resources are the envy of the Commonwealth; and each...

DENNIS GARVIN: Abortion and Slavery

There is no greater hot-button issue in the United States today than abortion.  In the middle of the nineteenth century, there was no greater...

Tolling on I-81? Here We Go Again

The Governor and lawmakers have decided that tolling the entire stretch of I-81 in Virginia is a good idea, another case of back room...