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...
How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
“Virginians should be fed up with a transportation debate that focuses only on more taxes and not on reforming a system that isn’t working well in the 21st Century,” says Jefferson Institute President Michael W. Thompson. Here are thirteen ideas for genuine reform that wold address development, efficiency, and congestion...
How do you create an energy policy that combines concern about energy needs with concerns over climate change? This paper, presented to the Virginia House of Delegates, provides a policy framework for evaluating energy and climate related proposals, and suggests various programs and projects that combine into a climate-friendly energy...
Fixing transportation funding isn’t as difficult as Governor Tim Kaine is making it out to be: Just empower local governments, who complain loudest about traffic, to enact the taxes that will fund transportation improvements.
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Isn’t it time we got more mileage out of transportation spending? Here’s how to do it.
... Why is Virginia’s climate change goal neither practically achievable or necessary in order to prevent catastrophic climate effects? The Jefferson Institute’s Center for Environmental Stewardship has the answer. This presentation before Governor Tim Kaine’s Climate Change Commission explains how geoengineering techniques can prevent the effects of climate change and provide...
A Transportation Reform Agenda
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.
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