The General Assembly produced a final budget that, all in all, is pretty good and sets the stage for the next step by our Governor. That next step will be...

The two-year state budget has been put to bed by the General Assembly. Agreeing with Governor McDonnell to not raise taxes as former Governor Tim Kaine advocated, the General Assembly...

Virginia fared pretty well during the recession compared with other states....

As the crafting of the bi-annual state budget enters its final stages, there are several items the governor and the budget negotiators could look at that would control state spending,...

Extending unemployment insurance seems like a good policy, and with the unemployment rate at 10 percent and expected to go higher, it would seem that Congress should do so. But...

With the recession now over, according to most economists, the question becomes: “How long will it take to recover all the jobs lost?” Observing the employment patterns of the past...

Government should use the current economic recession to re-evaluate its purpose, prioritize its programs, re-structure its employee compensation and permanently restrict the growth of future spending. If not, we will...

Government plans to revamp the health care system has a lot of people worried. After all, government is not known for operating as efficiently as the free market, particularly when...

There’s an old line: For every economist, there exists an equal and opposite economist, well Ms. Chmura finds her opposite in Dr. James F. Tucker, who provides his take on...