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Will the Virginia General Assembly Kill Online Learning?

Jefferson Forum
March 8, 2011
While the Old Dominion overwhelmingly approved a Virtual School law last year, a Senate budget amendment will likely result in shutting down the state’s only full-time virtual school...

Is Carbon Dioxide a Dangerous Pollutant?

Jefferson Forum
March 8, 2011
The EPA says yes, but I don’t think so. And I recently came across a book arguing that increasing concentrations of atmospheric CO2 may actually benefit the earth’s many life forms....

Transparency Roundup

Jefferson Forum
March 8, 2011
Our roundup of online government transparency news. In this edition, the end of the General Assembly session, Sunshine week and online innovators from around the country....

Death By Wind

David Schnare
February 22, 2011

On February 7th, the federal bureaucracy announced its plans for off-shore wind energy. To mark the occasion, Virginia Governor McDonnell stated that the Commonwealth must use “a diverse portfolio of fuels, including . . . offshore and onshore wind . . . . At the same time we must also...

Government Transparency: Three Papers

Jefferson Forum
February 21, 2011

With the continued expansion of the use of the internet, and with more technology available to Virginians, more and more taxpayers are demanding that government be transparent. The Governor’s Commission on Government Reform and Restructuring has focused on this issue and is encouraging the state to make available more and...

Coalition in Opposition to Fairfax County Purchase of Lorton Incinerator Grows

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
County staff has recommended that the Board of Supervisors vote to move forward with the purchase, but Fairfax County’s citizens and businesses will end up on the losing end if the Board agrees to the County staffs’ proposal....

Homebuilders Starting to See Glimmers of Hope

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Initial unemployment claims for construction workers in the Richmond metro area dropped to 740 claimants in December 2010 from 1,107 the previous year. As a leading indicator, this suggests homebuilding is showing signs of picking up....

Death by Wind

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Two recent, peer-reviewed and unimpeached studies explain why wind energy, a 17th century technology, has no sensible place in a 21st century civilization. And the research says you can have reasonable energy costs and reliable, consistent supply or you can have wind power....

Man Bites Dog: Public Official Sues Taxpayers

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
Falls Church Commissioner of the Revenue Tom Clinton is suing taxpayers after being asked to correct an assessment that a court had already ruled to be illegal....

Transparency Roundup

Jefferson Forum
February 17, 2011
This week, a roundup of transparency bills in the General Assembly, information on Sunshine Week, open data activists and can Baltimore become a "Smarter City?"...