Overall, Virginia ranks high in K-12 education. But in shouting huzzah, we are overlooking clear pockets of failure — and its time to stop dithering about how to solve the challenge.
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Calling Virginia a “dinosaur” in the delivery of psychiatric services, Governor Kaine has unveiled a package of budget cuts that incluldes proposals to foster a new shift in how the Commonwealth delivers mental health services. But Kaine and the General Assembly could go even further …
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Many people talk about “market-like” regulation such as cap and trade programs to reduce carbon dioxide. But why be “market-like” when you can use the original marketplace?
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As the economy has deteriorated, so too have the fiscal conditions in local government. Rather than ask federal taxpayers to bail them out, cities and counties of all sizes should embrace a variety of privatizationn strategies to help them do more with less. Here’s one example that leads the way.
... With its third straight state-wide shellacking, Republicans are about to engage in their annual ritual of self-contemplation, and everyone will pine for the days when the Big Guy from California came riding out of the West and branded the initials “RR” on the federal government’s hide. But is the real...
There are four truths to the climate change policy debate that environmental activists do not really want known. The first is that greenhouse gas reduction goals, like Virginia Governor Kaine’s, are both unachievable and irrelevant. In an op-ed commentary, Center for Evnironmental Stewardship Director David Schnare explains the “inside game”...
