(Publishers note: Gary Baise is a nationally recognized environmental attorney who was a key part of the initial leadership team when the Environmental Protection Agency came into existence. He is a Virginia resident and the issues brought up in his columns are clearly of concern to all farmer, including those...
President Obama’s mantra du jour for his 2012 campaign speeches is “all-inclusive” energy. Any business touting this type of version of “all-inclusive” would be prosecuted for false advertising. When the President says “all-inclusive,” he means politically correct (PC) “green” energy (wind, solar and bio-fuels), and almost nothing that actually provides...
What if you could improve Virginia’s economy by eliminating state income taxes on the working poor (and cutting taxes for everyone else) while creating thousands of new jobs? And what if, at the same time, you stimulated hundreds of millions in new business investments – even while eliminating three job-destroying...
Hampton Roads area officials seem bent on delaying or cancelling the proposed public-private partnership (PPP) for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel expansion over concerns about new tolls, preferring instead to ask state and regional leaders to shake a nonexistent money tree for transportation cash. But attacking the Midtown Tunnel partnership...
Virginia has been a leader in economic growth over the past five yearswhile many other states have yet to experience significant growth. So why isit that Virginia does so well while other states continue to struggle? The latestedition of the American Legislative Exchange Council’s “Rich States, PoorStates,” uses census data...
By Leonard Gilroy and Baruch Feigenbaum Hampton Roads area officials seem bent on delaying or cancelling the proposed public-private partnership (PPP) for the $2.1 billion Midtown Tunnel expansion over concerns about new tolls, preferring instead to ask state and regional leaders to shake a nonexistent money tree for transportation cash....
Virginia’s economic developers expect a wave of manufacturing and logistical investment when the Panama Canal expansion is complete. Opportunities this big, they say, come along only once in a generation. New mega-industrial parks and a proposed $1.8 billion highway could help create a world-class economic development asset in an unlikely...
The revised data can show certain sectors of the economy are doing better – orworse – than initially thought. That’s true for the latest revisions of regional and statewide employment figures.If you thought the Richmond region was performing better than the numbers hadshowed, you were right. In fact, employment in...
(Federally proposed regulations could well undermine the rationale behind funding of what the taxpayers understand is transit. Since many in Virginia are committed to transit, this article is important to our future transportation needs. Bob Poole’s Surface Transportation Innovations is a monthly newsletter published by the Reason Foundation. ) A...
(Fracking is not a big issue here in Virginia, but it is an important piece of the energy independence that our Governor and others want to see our nation pursue. This article is important because it shows the opposition to energy development from “environmental” groups.) The Sierra Club and...
