The Jefferson Journal
Commentary
With the continued expansion of the use of the internet, and with more technology available to Virginians, more and more taxpayers are demanding that government be transparent. The Governor’s Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring has focused on this issue and is encouraging the state to make available more and...
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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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...
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...