Dr. Karen Hiltz

Jefferson Forum
December 2, 2009
The current recession is not likely to end quickly. A total “remake” of state and local government is required in face of this new reality. Government simply must cut back, evaluate its true core functions and take action to restrict the growth of government in the future....
Christian Braunlich
November 12, 2009

A 17-point victory offers newly-elected Governor Bob McDonnell a mandate on those policies he made part of his platform. Developing quality public charter schools – particularly those that would serve as a turn-around mechanism – seems a good a place as any to start. But will bipartisanship rule, or will...

Jefferson Forum
November 11, 2009
A 17-point victory offers newly-elected Governor Bob McDonnell a mandate on those policies he made part of his platform. Developing quality public charter schools – particularly those that would serve as a turn-around mechanism – seems a good a place as any to start....
Jefferson Forum
November 11, 2009
Government seems to plod along in the same basic rut. Taxes are collected and the same old programs are funded without much thought as to why. Governor-elect McDonnell needs to take his electoral mandate and move government away from the past and into the future....
Jefferson Forum
November 10, 2009

While 62 percent of Virginia’s voters believe the state’s public school system is good or excellent, by similar margins those same voters also favor education choice reforms such as charter schools, tax-credit scholarships, and school vouchers. The poll was conducted by Braun Research, which has previously conducted polling for Gallup...

Jefferson Forum
October 28, 2009
The race to become governor of the Commonwealth may be drawing to a close, but for the winner, the journey is only beginning. Whoever is elected governor must see Virginia through an age of uncertainty and address serious issues in transportation, the budget and education....
Jefferson Forum
October 28, 2009
There’s an old line: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist, well Ms. Chmura finds her opposite in Dr. James F. Tucker, who provides his take on the current economic climate....
Jefferson Forum
October 28, 2009
Molly Pugh, Executive Director of the Virginia Grain Producers Association, laid out facts and principles that, had they been the keystone of prior decades of Chesapeake Bay policy, would have resulted in a Bay much further along in its recovery....
David Schnare
October 22, 2009

How do we protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay? Every once in a while we get a peak at someone who goes beyond the headlines and offers up something more like sense and sensibility. Here’s just one example.

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Leonard Gilroy
October 15, 2009

Could the high-profile Kerfuffle over the state’s contract to consolidate and manage Virginia’s information technology (IT) infrastructure diminish our appetite for outsourcing and public-private partnerships?

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