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Virginia is Ready to Take Full Control of Education

Last night, as promised repeatedly during the campaign, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department of Education (the Department). The order also ensures the continued delivery of essential services such as federal student aid and funding for students with disabilities. This historic move will […]

Virginia General Assembly Recap and Veto/Sign Recommendations for Governor Youngkin

Despite a shortened 2025 General Assembly session due to a water plant failure in Richmond, Legislators still managed to introduce and debate almost 2,500 bills — an impressive workload by any measure.  In the end, however, a total of 1,440 of those bills were killed, with 409 (or 28 percent) killed without even the dignity […]

Rapid Federal Policy Changes Make Dominion’s Energy Resource Plan Moot

The expanded use of natural gas as a fuel for electricity is the key debate in Dominion Energy Virginia’s integrated resource plan pending before the State Corporation Commission. Not waiting for the decision in that case to come later this year, the utility has now filed an application to start building the first of those gas […]

Senator Roem’s “Free School Meals” Campaign is Bad for Students and Creates Food Deserts

After failing to pass legislation last year that would have made breakfast and lunch free for all public school students regardless of income (at a staggering cost of $201.5 million), Senator Danika Roem (D-Manassas) pared down that bill to focus solely on funding a universal free school breakfast program this session. Fortunately, the pared down bill also failed in the final […]

What Did FERC Do Last Week? Only Change the Course of Energy Policy

The new chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission used the Trump Administration’s order to have agency employees report their activities as a chance to show off. Late last week the chairman issued a four-page letter of accomplishments on behalf of his staff, a list that might be a good month, not a good week, at some […]

Hashmi Tries to Forget Her Role in Education Decline

State Senator Ghazala Hashmi (D-Powhatan) has written a  Richmond Times-Dispatch commentary proclaiming Governor Glenn Youngkin responsible for Virginia’s education declines, a commentary astonishing for the breadth of its amnestic qualities.   Senator Hashmi, who seeks the Democratic nomination for Lt. Governor, correctly notes “Virginia’s fourth-grade math scores have plummeted, dropping us from fifth place in 2019 […]

Energy Customers Deserve to Know What Clean Energy Mandate is Costing Them

Until October of last year, customers of Dominion Energy Virginia could see at least some of the higher costs created by the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA) detailed on their electric bills. Look at the recent bill and all that transparency is gone and the VCEA costs are now hidden. Compliance with the Democrats’ signature law […]

Doubling Down on Virginia’s Terrible Energy Policies

The Questions Not Asked: What Does This Cost? Will Electricity be More Reliable? The Virginia General Assembly has approved a long list of bills to double down on its previous commitment to ending the use of hydrocarbon fuel in Virginia. It ignored warnings from the regional electricity marketplace, the Virginian who now chairs the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission […]

A Conscious Veto of Sen. Locke’s Unconscious Bias Bill 

Senator Mamie Locke (D-Hampton) and the Progressives in the General Assembly have again sent a bill to Governor Youngkin’s desk requiring doctors in Virginia to complete training in “unconscious bias and cultural competency.” Last year, when Governor Youngkin vetoed a similar bill, Sen. Locke took to X (formerly Twitter) to smear the Governor: “It is a shame unconscious […]