State Budget

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Initial unemployment claims for construction workers in the Richmond metro area dropped to 740 claimants in December 2010 from 1,107 the previous year. As a leading indicator, this suggests homebuilding is showing signs of picking up....
Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Two recent, peer-reviewed and unimpeached studies explain why wind energy, a 17th century technology, has no sensible place in a 21st century civilization. And the research says you can have reasonable energy costs and reliable, consistent supply or you can have wind power....
Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Falls Church Commissioner of the Revenue Tom Clinton is suing taxpayers after being asked to correct an assessment that a court had already ruled to be illegal....
Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
This week, a roundup of transparency bills in the General Assembly, information on Sunshine Week, open data activists and can Baltimore become a "Smarter City?"...
Christian Braunlich
January 26, 2011

Polls demonstrate that Virginians support the concept of performance pay for teachers and creating incentives for the private sector to offer scholarships for low income students. But until now, little progress has been made on either front. That may be about to change …

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Mike Thompson
January 25, 2011

The Thomas Jefferson Institute issued its tenth annual “Fairfax County Budget Analysis” and it once again shows that using the county’s own numbers that the budget difficulties faced today could have been avoided had the budget merely increased by the rate of inflation and population growth since FY 2000. This...

Jefferson Forum
January 19, 2011

EPA equates an agriculturally related spill of pesticides, fertilizers, fuel, coolants and oil-petroleum-based products as a major problem on farms and ranches. Farms and ranches, according to EPA, have substantial problems with the prevention and control of oil spills. EPA claims “Farms and ranches constitute a sizeable portion of the...

Jefferson Forum
January 19, 2011
At what point in the recovery will consumer debt begin to grow again?...
Jefferson Forum
January 19, 2011
Despite widespread support in Virginia for teacher merit pay and using tax credits to spur educational opportunities, little progress has been made in either area. Thanks to some support from the Governor, that may be about to change....
Jefferson Forum
January 19, 2011
The Virginia General Assembly session and the new OpenGovernment.org...