Archives for the ‘Feature’ Category

Virginia v. EPA

By David Schnare • Mar 3rd, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

It is time to hit the reset button on Tenth Amendment Jurisprudence and Virginia has an opportunity make that push.



Getting Government Out of the Parking Business

By Leonard Gilroy • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Feature, Government Reform

Chicago’s groundbreaking parking asset leases inspire imitators. Any local takers?



Good News: Cleaner Water

By Gary Baise • Feb 17th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

As farmers in the Midwest move to no-till farming, pesticide runoff is decreasing, improving the quality of water.



Virginia Needs a 21st Century Energy Plan-NOW

By Joe Nash • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Energy, Feature

Virginia is at a crossroad. Either we decide to plan for the next 50 years now or we face energy shortages in the future. If we wish to maintain our robust business climate we must have a consistent, high quality supply of electricity and transportation fuels.



What Cyber Charter Schools Have to Offer

By David Kirkpatrick • Feb 3rd, 2010 • Category: Education, Feature

Virginia has only three operating charter schools, and the concept of virtual schools is still a new frontier. But around the country, both are expanding – often together – and they offer lessons for the Old Dominion.



Virginia Energy Policy: Electricity Production & the Coal Option

By Joe Nash • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Energy, Feature

Without question, coal is an important resource to Virginia and to make changes in production and use will require a well thought out energy plan and a large capital outlay.



Where the School Boards Association is Right

By Christian Braunlich • Jan 20th, 2010 • Category: Education, Feature

Though Virginia may currently be a vast wasteland for quality charter innovation that could help kids, the Virginia School Boards Association is right on this: the quality of the charter applications that are received by local boards is often quite poor. Changes proposed by the NACPS, however, could change that.



Progressive Environmentalism – The New Green is Pink?

By David Schnare • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Environment, Feature

To solve the problems of the Chesapeake Bay, we need stewardship, which can include regulation. But we don’t need the interventionist economics that comes with progressive environmentalism.



A Virginia Land Inventory

By John Palatiello • Jan 6th, 2010 • Category: Feature, Land Use

Conducting a land inventory and selling surplus property, rather than raising taxes would allow McDonnell to help fund transportation, make government more efficient and increase transparency. It’s time Virginia join the growing number of states that are implementing this common sense strategy.



Memo to the General Assembly: Tell Them You Mean Business!!

By Tyler Craddock • Dec 16th, 2009 • Category: Feature, Law and Justice

The regulatory and legal environment businesses operate in determines, in large part, if jobs are created. Here are two reforms that, if taken together, would make plaintiffs (and trial lawyers) think twice about filing frivolous lawsuits, saving the taxpayers money by cutting down on litigation and create even greater incentive for investment in the Old Dominion.