The Jefferson Journal
Commentary
Jefferson Forum
May 13, 2011
How best to determine real estate tax rates. A Fairfax County case study....
Leonard Gilroy
May 6, 2011
Fiscal crises inevitably yield difficult choices for policymakers as they seek ways to reduce spending. there are surely some functions government can stop providing … but the traditional budgeting process fails to offer meaningful guidance on where to start. With the budget essentially on autopilot, Virginia’s state and local governments...
Jefferson Forum
April 28, 2011
Despite a lack of evidence to support their assertions, EPA continues to insist that mercury emissions from US power plants pose a significant risk. This line of thinking poses great harm to the affordability of electricity....
Jefferson Forum
April 28, 2011
"The EPA used heavy-handed tactics with states, flawed models and showed a disregard for costs in developing a new Bay cleanup plan, members of Congress and the agricultural community charged at a recent hearing," claims the Chesapeake Bay Journal in the April, 2011, edition....
Jefferson Forum
April 14, 2011
Officially, and according to the statistics, no. Anecdotal evidence, however, indicates something else entirely – so which is it?...
Jefferson Forum
April 14, 2011
The discussion over possible tolling of the Interstates has everyone singing the same song: “New capacity yes -- existing capacity no.” But that position ignores by far the most important role that tolling could play in America’s highway infrastructure: reconstructing worn-out Interstates....
Jefferson Forum
April 14, 2011
Taken together, everything EPA is doing to tax and penalize coal use will result in huge increases in electricity prices that will hammer family budgets, especially in minority communities, impair nutrition and health and make it harder for many to heat, cool and pay for their homes....
Jefferson Forum
April 14, 2011
Fiscal crises inevitably yield difficult choices for policymakers as they seek ways to cut spending. Adopting a Budgeting for Outcomes approach would be a major step for Virginia’s state and local governments towards bringing accountability and fiscal sustainability to budgeting....
Jefferson Forum
April 14, 2011
This week: Redistricting, the muzzle awards and government data as a business....