If you discovered the local grocery store had overcharged you, you’d demand a refund. Isn’t it time to do the same with state government?
... House Republicans are exploring new ideas for reforming state government. Will they finally have allies?
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Your home is your castle, right? It was until June 23, 2005. That’s the day the Supreme Court gave local government broad powers for eminent domain anytime your home is needed for “economic development.” Particularly disturbing is that the Virginia Supreme Court has the same issue before it now, and...
Some parts of the education bureaucracy would like nothing better than to see educational standards and the federal No Child Left Behind Act go away. But a refusal to make mid-course corrections may threaten this educational reform even more.
... Virginia’s economy and the state’s tax revenues are set to grow faster than the national average. So isn’t it time to tuck some away in a Rainy Day Fund, give some back to the taxpayers, and invest the rest in needed infrastructure?
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The Sugar Lobby stands in the way of a trade agreement with Central America that would help Virginia’s economic growth. Here’s what it could mean for the Old Dominion.
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A new book offers solid advice to elected officials on squeezing more efficiency out of state and local government. It should be required reading for anyone in government.
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The time to restrain state spending is when we can afford it. So why aren’t we?
... Virginia has among the fewest number of charter schools of any state in the nation, and its about to lose one more in the Blue Ridge Technical Academy. Maybe it is because Virginia’s charters are charter schools in name only.
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