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Mike Thompson
August 20, 2010

As Virginia continues with its Governor-inspired effort to modernize state government through the Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring, it might be helpful to learn what is happening along these lines in another state close by – New Jersey.

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Jefferson Forum
August 18, 2010
The Chairman of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the Texas Attorney General have written to EPA's Administrator telling her she is breaking the law....
Jefferson Forum
August 18, 2010
Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring, it might prove helpful to know what a state close by – New Jersey – is doing....
Jefferson Forum
August 18, 2010

Paradigm shifts are tough in government. This helps to explain some of the myths and confusion on the subject of privatizing Virginia’s ABC monopoly, and it helps shed light on why some policymakers—in a fiscally conservative state like Virginia, no less—seem reluctant to consider abandoning the state’s long-standing, socialized monopoly...

Jefferson Forum
August 18, 2010
U.S. Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, holds one of 100 seats in what journalist George Packer rightly calls "The Empty Chamber."...
Jefferson Forum
August 18, 2010
What's good about Virginia's open records laws?...
Mike Thompson
August 18, 2010

Economic hard times make all of us review our spending and how to cut costs. That is true at home, at church, in our businesses and in government. Government tends to be the last of these groupings to seriously look at truly restructuring how it delivers services and how it...

Jefferson Forum
August 5, 2010
Regulations do not work - at least beyond the immediate short term - when government actively selects winners and losers in otherwise functioning markets. Such will be the case if Senator Leahy’s Performance Rights Act is passed through Congress....
Jefferson Forum
August 5, 2010
EPA has not given up on regulating dust from your farm. And a number of agricultural organizations suggest the new standard could be devastating....
Jefferson Forum
August 5, 2010
For decades, rural Appalachia has been relatively hidden from view, and as a consequence, the health disparities within the area have gone largely unnoticed by the general public....