The Jefferson Journal
Commentary
Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “A transparent student-based funding system could make it easier for taxpayers and policymakers to see how much money is devoted to educating particular students, how much reaches individual schools, and whether those expenditures produce improved educational results.“ 10/28/2026 — For nearly two decades, Chris Braunlich and the Jefferson...
Good governance is more than just keeping the corrupt at bay, and Louise Lucas sadly exemplifies what happens when we tolerate a little bit here, a little bit there… 10/22/2026 — Certainly we should state the obvious up front. State Senator L. Louise Lucas (D-Portsmouth), President pro tempore of the Virginia Senate is...
Your costs will rise, not decline Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Yet Governor Spanberger is willing for the combination to go forward if her conditions are met. Her position now is ‘Yes, if’ and her ‘if’ is a price that will wreck Virginia’s energy future.” 10/20/2026 — Which has done more harm...
Spanberger and Dominion Asked the Same Software the Same Question and Got Different Answers Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “If left alone to do its job, absent changes in the law, the SCC should be able to parse all the conflicting data and ensure reliability while choosing more affordable pathways.” 10/5/2026...
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Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Virginia needs an energy policy capable of powering the success it helped create. Scapegoating data centers is not an energy policy.” 9/16/2026 — Congressman Suhas Subramanyam, who likely represents the Congressional District with the largest concentration of data centers, has become a leading advocate for placing new limits...
Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “The impact of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative carbon tax on your electric bill – and everything you buy which depends on electricity – will be double what the General Assembly’s Democrats claimed it would be just a few months ago. The hit on your wallet is...
Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Government should not choose which industries to protect. It should let free people choose from whom they will buy and to whom they will sell.” 9/4/2026 — There are very few issues on which the Jefferson Forum has been in full agreement with Governor Abigail Spanberger. However, her...
Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Economic development requires more than low taxes and good infrastructure. It requires trust. If Loudoun wants businesses to invest billions of dollars here, create jobs here and put down roots here, then Loudoun must demonstrate that its promises mean something.” Derrick Max is Vice President of...
Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Data centers didn’t create Virginia’s policy challenges; they have created enormous wealth that can fuel Virginia’s economy for decades to come. Virginia policymakers should think twice before deciding to kill this golden goose.” 8/14/2026 — The anti-data center rhetoric has reached a fevered pitch. Living adjacent to “data center...