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...
One key difference between the education plans of Barack Obama and John McCain: McCain’s plan provides greater empowerment to parents, especially in our nation’s capital. In supporting parental choice, he’s joined by scores of Democrats across the country — why not those in Virginia?
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It’s time to either pass a gas tax increase to pay for transportation infrastructure or take it off the table. If the General Assembly remains stalemated, then why not give it to the ultimate decision-makers: Let the people decide!
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Another transportation myth has bitten the dust — this time the claim that government can access cheaper infrastructure financing than the private sector. Transurban’s experience in Northern Virginia provides the proof.
... Solving the transportation challenge is about more than just spending money; its also about changing the way we fund and administer roads and rail. Here are 13 ideas for real reform.
... Many of Virginia’s institutions are creaking along, designed in a post World War II environment when places like Fairfax County were agricultural hotbeds. More money and tinkering around the edges won’t solve the problem, and it’s time to take our vision over the horizon and anticipate the changes yet to...
This ninth annual economic forecast, prepared by Chmura Economics and Analytics, anticipates that Virginia’s economy will be sluggish for the remainder of 2008 before improving in 2009. Single-family building permits, which fell more than 20 percent in both 2006 and 2007, are forecast to continue declining over the next two...
