The Jefferson Journal

Commentary

David Schnare
November 1, 2008

There are four truths to the climate change policy debate that environmental activists do not really want known. The first is that greenhouse gas reduction goals, like Virginia Governor Kaine’s, are both unachievable and irrelevant. In an op-ed commentary, Center for Evnironmental Stewardship Director David Schnare explains the “inside game”...

David Schnare
November 1, 2008

At the Research Triangle Institute in November 2008, David Schnare, Director of the Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship, discussed climate change from a political theory perspective, with reference to geoengineering as a means to break the political roadblocks. In a thought-provoking presentation, he examines Malthusian and post-Marxist approaches to...

Christian Braunlich
October 28, 2008

At the age of eight, I watched my father vote in a contested election for his union’s leadership. Sitting across the folding table from him, watching to see how he voted, were members of the union leadership being challenged – the ones who decided which union members would be assigned...

David Schnare
October 1, 2008

In an internal analysis of the U.S. economy and federal environmental spending, Center for Environmental Stewardship Director David Schnare conducted a brief review of the relationship between the health of the economy and its effect upon environmental spending. Notably, significant changes in the former do not appear to much affect...

Jefferson Forum
September 8, 2008
How's this for irony: The knowledge economy craves information more than ever, but newspapers and print media are imploding. Where will Virginians get their news in the Internet age?...
Jefferson Forum
August 25, 2008
Virginia's secret weapon in the budget wars is a little-known agency, the Commonwealth Competition Council, that seeks savings through privatization and outsourcing....
Jefferson Forum
August 4, 2008
A century ago, Americans expected immigrants to learn English and adapt to a new culture. Would it be politically incorrect to encourage today's immigrants to "Americanize"?...
David Schnare
August 1, 2008

With new information frequently becoming available on the facts surrounding the debate on Global Warming, the Jefferson Institute’s Director of Environmental Stewardship. Dr. David Schnare, was asked to submit to the Governor’s Climate Change Commission, an update to his May testimony. This updated information was provided to the Commission at...

Jefferson Forum
July 21, 2008
Putting the interest of the nation's children ahead of those of the teachers unions, an increasing number of Dems are supporting school choice....
Jefferson Forum
July 7, 2008
It's time to fish or cut bait on the gas tax. Either pass a tax increase to pay for transportation projects or take it off the table so we can pursue other options....