One of the hottest debates today among urbanists and economic geographers is the extent to which population growth and development are shifting from the periphery of U.S. metropolitan areas back to their urban cores. The latest contribution to this discussion, “Even after the Housing Bust, Americans Still Love the Suburbs,”...
Students who are just starting with a new semester would do well to think about their future careers. Additional training or education after high school gives students more opportunities in the job market. This fact is reflected in unemployment rates, as those with higher educational levels are much less likely...
(Publisher’s note:Gary Baise is a nationally respected environmental attorney living in Virginia and he owns a family farm in Illinois. Virginia is a major pork producing state and this article shows the pending impact on this industry from the lawsuit described below).If you’re an activist group bent on beating your...
Pick up any 40-year-old science textbook – on chemistry, biology, geology, physics, astronomy or medicine – and you’ll find a slew of “facts” and theories that have been proven wrong or are no longer the “consensus” view. Climatology is no exception. Back in the 1970s, many scientists warned of global...
In the Jefferson Policy Journal two weeks ago, we reported the results from a recent study of public-sector versus private-sector compensation. This time, we respond to a presentation by state officials that gives a different perspective.The study we cited, by economists William Even of Miami University and David Macpherson of...
In apparent deference to Governor Bob McDonnell, the Virginia Commonwealth University Board of Visitors has revised its six-year plan to assume tuition increases averaging 5.5% annually rather than 12.1% per year in the plan approved last September. The decision will diminish the increase in funding to hire new faculty and...
(This column ran in the Richmond Times Dispatch on Labor Day. It is reprinted here with permission. Dr Chris Chmura is the leading private sector economist in Virginia.) Labor Day celebrates the contribution of workers to America. But many people who lost their job during the Great Recession still have...
(Publisher’s note: On June 21, Gabriel Roth wrote in the Jefferson Policy Journal a column critical of the then-proposed extension of Dulles Rail into Loudoun County. On July 16, Glen Bottoms and Eric Peterson responded. Loudoun Count’s Board of Supervisors approved the extension of rail by a close one-vote margin...
(Publisher’s note: Obamacare will continue to be controversial regardless of who wins the presidential race next month. Medicare is a huge issue in the health care debate taking place here in Virginia and around the country. This article adds to that public policy debate.) Among 45 new government organizations created...
(Publisher’s note: Gary Baise is nationally respected environmental attorney who lives here in Virginia. His article here deals with a case in Iowabut its implications will significantly impact on Virginia’s farmers. That is why it is printed in the Jefferson Policy Journal.) Residents inWinneshiek County,Iowafiled a lawsuit in July, 2012,...
