The Issues

Energy Freedom

Progressive Environmentalism – The New Green is Pink?

To solve the problems of the Chesapeake Bay, we need stewardship, which can include regulation. But we don’t need the interventionist economics that comes with progressive environmentalism....
Jefferson Forum
January 6, 2010

A Virginia Land Inventory

Conducting a land inventory and selling surplus property, rather than raising taxes would allow McDonnell to help fund transportation, make government more efficient and increase transparency. It’s time Virginia join...
Jefferson Forum
January 6, 2010

Virginia Energy Policy: Electricity Production & the Renewables Option

While the potential exists, if renewable sources are to provide energy in Virginia they have a lot of growing up to do. Questions surrounding commercial viability, cost and integration make...
Jefferson Forum
January 6, 2010

Logic and Passion and the Chesapeake Bay

Molly Pugh, Executive Director of the Virginia Grain Producers Association, laid out facts and principles that, had they been the keystone of prior decades of Chesapeake Bay policy, would have...
Jefferson Forum
October 28, 2009

Logic and Passion and the Chesapeake Bay

How do we protect and restore the Chesapeake Bay? Every once in a while we get a peak at someone who goes beyond the headlines and offers up something more...

David Schnare
October 22, 2009

I Don’t Trust You

Politicians at their Town Hall meetings are finding it hard to believe that the public doesn’t trust them. But there are reasons for the public’s lack of trust … and...

David Schnare
August 27, 2009

Climate Change Forum-Hosted by VMA & Nucor and Citizens Energy Rally

The Virginia Manufacturing Association will be hosting a forum on climate change and the energy legislation currently being considered in Congress on August 27. Citizens Energy will be holding a...
Jefferson Forum
August 25, 2009

I Don’t Trust You

The public sense is that money and political power have corrupted science. To combat this feeling we need to establish a science court – a real one that is paid...
Jefferson Forum
August 25, 2009

How Would ‘Cap and Trade’ Affect Virginia’s Economy?

How would Virginia’s economy be affected by the proposed “Cap and Trade” legislation? The Thomas Jefferson Institute has re-released into one package two new reports independently released by the Beacon...

Jefferson Forum
August 15, 2009

Jefferson Forum concentrates on policies that affect everyday life in Virginia

Economic Freedom

Lower taxes and fewer regulations

Education Freedom

More choices for Virginia families

Energy Freedom

Reliable, affordable energy

Worker Freedom

Protecting Virginia’s right-to-work tradition

These are the building blocks of a more competitive and prosperous Virginia.