Author: Peter Galuszka
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Podcast: How the General Assembly Has Changed
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in Agriculture & forestry, Blogs and Blog Administration, Business and Economy, Civil Rights, Individual Liberties, Consumer Protection, Courts and law, Demographics, Economic development, Energy, Entrepreneurs and Innovation, Environment, General Assembly, Government Finance, Health Care, Housing, Immigration, Infrastructure, Labor and Workforce, Land use & Development, Politics, Poverty & income gap, Property rights, Public safety & health, Race and Race RelationsBy Peter Galuszka I haven’t contributed much to BR lately since I am slammed with non-Virginia work. I did manage to help out on a Podcast about how the General Assembly has changed the state over the last two years as Democrats have gained power. This Podcast is produced by WTJU, the University of Virginia…
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Private Sector Screws Up Vaccine Dispersal
By Peter Galuszka For more than a year, there has been a stream of criticism of government handling of the COVID vaccine. On this blog, there has been a relentless pounding of Gov. Ralph Northam for his role in trying to navigate the pandemic that has so far killed more than 500,000 Americans. This is…
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WaPo Nabs Polk Award, Is Pulitzer Next?
By Peter Galuszka How ironical. Our esteemed Jim Bacon has been on a tear in recent months writing about media coverage of the problem of systemic racism at the Virginia Military Institute. Of special interest to Jim is the reporting of Ian Shapira, a Washington Post reporter who has been digging into the VMI. After…
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Buy Bacon’s Book
By Peter Galuszka This is a shameless advertisement. Jim has written an excellent book and you should buy it and review it. While some of Jim’s focus is at odds with a similar book I wrote eight years ago, “Maverick Miner” is a really well put together effort at research and writing. In my reporting,…
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What Texas’s Crisis Means for Virginia
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in Blogs and Blog Administration, Business and Economy, Consumer Protection, Corruption and Scandals, Culture wars, Disasters and Disaster Preparedness, Economic development, Energy, Environment, Government Finance, Insurance, Labor and Workforce, Land use & Development, Money in politics, Political Influence, Politics, Property rights, Public safety & health, Regulations, Gov’t Oversight, Science & Technologyby Peter Galuszka The Texas freeze and ensuing energy disaster has clear lessons for Virginia as it sorts out its energy future. Yet much of the media coverage in Virginia and certainly on Bacon’s Rebellion conveniently leaves out pertinent observations. The statewide freeze in Texas completely fouled up the entire energy infrastructure as natural gas…
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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Virginia Coal Exports??
By Peter Galuszka Oilprice.com, a petroleum trade newsletter, has a story that could spell more bad news for the faltering Virginia coal industry. For many years, the most valuable product from Virginia’s coal fields was coking or metallurgical coal that is exported to other countries for use in steel making. China has been a crucial…
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The Mythology of Robert E. Lee
By Peter Galuszka With excellent timing, the former head of the history department at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point has come out with a book about the mythology of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and much of the White “Southern” culture. Retired U.S. Army Gen. Ty Seidule, a former paratrooper, has deep Virginia…
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Bye For Now
By Peter Galuszka I am delighted that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are now in office. Here is a brilliant poem from a 22-year-old Black woman from West LA. You won’t be hearing from me for a while. Best Regards Peter Galuszka
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Northam’s Good Move: End Executions
By Peter Galuszka Governor Ralph Northam will propose legislation to ban executions in the state. The move could end decades of systemic racism in the criminal justice system. “I’ve strongly about this for a long time,” he was quoted as saying. The bill will be taken up by the General Assembly, which met in its…
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You Were Warned
By Peter Galuszka Here are some posts over the past year warning of what happened Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. https://www.baconsrebellion.com/is-a-mighty-storm-coming/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-new-face-of-virginias-gop/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-plot-to-nab-northam/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-very-real-threat-of-boogaloo/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-real-danger-with-antifa/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/notes-from-the-right-wing-echo-chamber/ One other note: One Trump rioter was photographed holding a bunch of white flex cuff handcuffs, presumably to restrain Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence and others. It reminded me…
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A New Fad: Bashing Offshore Wind Turbines
By Peter Galuszka Offshore wind power is becoming a whipping boy even as the technology involved becomes more advanced and its costs go down. Northwestern Europe is offshore wind headquarters globally and countries such as the United Kingdom have wholeheartedly embraced it. Yet some critics, some of whom are supported financially by the fossil fuel…
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Critical Lizard Theory Sweeps Nation
By Peter Galuszka Bacon’s Rebellion has been filled with many thumbsuckers about how “Critical Race Theory” is an existential threat to Western Civilization. But now there is a new theory of concern that makes the racial considerations seem, well, so 2020. It is called “Critical Lizard Theory” and it actually exists. According to NBC News,…
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Media Bashing at Bacon’s Rebellion
by Peter Galuszka Two recent blog posts critical of The Washington Post and The New York Times are way out of line. They assume that two leading newspapers have a definite agenda on race. Jim Bacon goes after the Post for reporting about the bad experiences a Black student, Rafael Jenkins, endured during ‘”Rat Week”…
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The New Face of Virginia’s GOP
By Peter Galuszka If ever one photo best describes what 2020 was like in Virginia, this shot, by the brilliant veteran photographer Scott Elmquist at Style Weekly, shows it. The photo is of state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, at a July 4 rally at the capitol. Her defiant expression, the assault-style rifle and the over-the-top…
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The Virginia City Boondoggle
By Peter Galuszka Back in 2007, Dominion Energy was touting its new hybrid generating plant near St. Paul in Southwest Virginia as the wave of the future because it would burn coal and wood using advanced fluidized bed technologies. But for eight months this year, the 624-megawatt Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center operated at only…