This spring, the Commonwealth will make an important decision on how to move forward with the public-private partnership proposals it has received to privatize The Port of Virginia. Virginia has...

Each of the nation’s 366 metropolitan statistical areas saw a year-over-year increase in personal income in 2011 — the first time since 2007. Richmond had the fastest personal income growth...

(Publisher’s note: The financial solvency of Social Security impacts Virginia, young and old alike. This column is one perspective.) To resolve Social Security’s looming financial shortfalls, one of the primary...

Two years ago when the General Assembly adopted the Governor’s transportation bonding package, everyone acknowledged that a sustainable funding initiative was necessary to meet the Commonwealth’s ongoing transportation needs. The...

In an effort to leave a lasting legacy as the “Transportation Governor,” Bob McDonnell has proposed a tax increase to achieve that goal this year. “Virginia’s Road to the Future,”...

“If we are remembered at all, we will all be remembered for what we actually got done, Not what we promised to do.” Governor Robert McDonnell State of the State...

(This article is reprinted from Surface Transportation Innovations, Bob Poole’s monthly publication by the Reason Foundation. ) There’s been a lot of discussion in some transportation circles about a paper...

(This article first ran in the Richmond Times Dispatch on December 3, 2012) Each of the nation’s 366 metropolitan statistical areas saw a year-over-year increase in personal income in 2011...