Judicial Watch publishes a newsletter entitled “VERDICT”. You may have read about it filing motions in court to compel former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to answer questions. Judicial Watch has been characterized as a “conservative gadfly.” A recent investigation by Judicial Watch caught my eye regarding billions of dollars wasted...
Virginia’s Education Improvement Scholarship Tax Credit helped more than 2,400 children get a better education last year. In states with a higher tax credit, even more children are helped, and their stories are amazing examples of perseverance and communities coming together. One such story belongs to Denisha Merriweather, in Jacksonville,...
The recently released annual analysis of Virginia hospitals by the Thomas Jefferson Institute once again confirms that the hospital industry as a whole here in Virginia continues to do well and that its overall financial health continues to improve. As in past years, the Thomas Jefferson Institute used the financial...
The start of a new year with a new Congress, and a new president brings hope for progress on a plethora of issues facing our great country. After one of the ugliest political seasons in the last fifty years, the time is ripe for our elected officials to begin to...
The Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP), once one of the most respected economic development teams in the country, has been taking it on the chin. A year ago, a Chinese company bilked the partnership for a $1.4 million incentive payment in a deal that never transpired. The scandal prompted the...
These days, even shipwreck museums showcase evidence of climate change. After diving recently among Key West’s fabled ship-destroying barrier reefs, I immersed myself in exhibits from the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, the fabled Spanish galleon that foundered during a ferocious hurricane in 1622. The Mel Fisher Maritime Museum now houses...
(This is part XII and the final part of this series on energy. We hope it helped the reader better understand the issues facing our country and our state as we endeavor to tackle the problem of providing our citizens and our businesses with their energy needs.) Fracking * Some...
A new study issued by the Thomas Jefferson Institute shows that the overall finances of Virginia hospitals are healthy. While hospital profits remained flat since last year, hospital net worth has increased by $1.1 billion. More important is the bigger picture: Since 2012, hospital profits have risen from $1.58 billion...
Hospitals are dangerous places. Americans acquired 722,000 infections in a hospital setting in 2011, the most recent year cited by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. About one out of twenty-five patients fell victim to preventable hospital-acquired infections. In the interest of controlling infectious disease, health care officials have...
Jefferson Journal: Hospitals Continue to Do Well Here in Virginia
The recently released annual analysis of Virginia hospitals by the Thomas Jefferson Institute once again confirms that the hospital industry as a whole here in Virginia continues to do well and that its overall financial health continues to improve.
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