Author: sherlockj
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Projected $312 Billion Cost of Lost Earnings of Virginia K-12 Students due to Pandemic School Closures
by James C. Sherlock Over $312 billion in present value. That is the estimate published by Stanford’s Eric A. Hanushek of expected economic losses attributable to Virginia’s pandemic school closures. Virginia students in the COVID cohort can expect on average 5.5 percent lower lifetime earnings. History indicates that the economic losses will be permanent unless the schools…
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Refugees in Virginia
by James C. Sherlock Happy New Year and welcome to everyone in Virginia granted refugee status by the federal government. You are the latest part of a tradition of welcoming refugees that predates the republic. The definition of refugee is: Any person who is outside his or her country of nationality or habitual residence, and…
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Offshore Wind Turbines in International Waters Raise Big Defense Issues
By James C. Sherlock The Department of the Interior (DOI) is unlikely to be expert in the diplomatic issues and defense vulnerabilities inherent in building wind turbine farms in international waters. The DOI is, however, greatly concerned with “viewscape” – whether the turbine blades can be seen from shore. By the wealthy who live there…
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New Census Bureau Numbers and the Southern Border
by James C. Sherlock I just received my “Happy New Year 2023” message from the Census Bureau. “As the nation prepares to ring in the new year, the U.S. Census Bureau today projected the U.S. population will be 334,233,854 on Jan. 1, 2023. Happy New Year 2023! This represents an increase of 1,571,393, or 0.47%,…
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Medicare Care Compare – The Only Way to Find the Best Home Health Services in Your Area
by James C. Sherlock I have been using Medicare Care Compare ratings in my research and writing for 15 years. Regular readers are familiar with my work on hospitals. I published in this space an extensive series on Virginia nursing homes. For quality ratings and consumer survey data, there is absolutely no substitute for Medicare…
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Is There Something about Restrictive Speech Environments that Attracts Journalism Majors?
by James C. Sherlock Most of the best journalists in American history had only a high school diploma. Charles Dickens, a voracious reader with a very limited and interrupted formal education, was a journalist and one of the most honored writers ever. The Columbia School of Journalism offers, if that is the right word, a…
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Afghan Immigrants and Their Children in Virginia – Part 2 – the Afghan Adjustment Act
by James C. Sherlock When I wrote Part 1 of this series, I promised further investigation into immigration of Afghan allies into Virginia. The Virginia Department of Social Services (VDSS), a hero in this story, has been entirely forthcoming in answering my inquiries. I will recount in a follow-up post their work so far. But…
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Dominion’s Planned Offshore Wind Farm Need Not – and Must Not – Be Built Where Planned
by James C. Sherlock I am referring in the title, of course, to Dominion Power’s Coastal Virginia Offshore Wind (CVOW) project to be located in the hatched area below. It is planned for one of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s (DI) Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) offshore wind farm lease areas. Lease areas…
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Offshore Wind Turbines and Submarine Warfare
by James C. Sherlock Upon investigation of open source literature, I find that offshore wind turbines are less noisy than I imagined. But they present obstacles nonetheless, both physically and acoustically. United States submarine and anti-submarine efforts, operationally, in Navy labs, and in industry are led by some of our best and brightest. That is…
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A Primatologist at The Washington Post
by James C. Sherlock And they wonder why they are hated by people outside the bubble. A story by Stephanie McCrummen in The Washington Post, “In rural Georgia, an unlikely rebel against Trumpism,” comes across as an attempt at Hillbilly Elegy as written by a primatologist. Primatologists study primates in order to understand their evolution…
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Why Does Princeton Have All the Luck?
by James C. Sherlock Cavalier Daily, where are you? There is an article in The Daily Princetonian that is, end-to-end, utterly beyond satire. It’s title: “3 Princeton DEI staff members resign, alleging lack of support.” Where to begin? The “Prince” offers in a single posting Homeric tales of the peripatetic journeys of three school officials…
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Red States Have Significantly Higher Percentages of Minors than Blue States
by James C. Sherlock The Census Bureau yesterday released part of its 2022 population estimates. It showed marked differences in the percentages of children and adolescents under 18 among the states, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. Adults in red states are raising more children on average than those in blue states. And it…
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FOIA Council Responds on Request to UVa for Threat Assessment Team Records on Shooter
by James C. Sherlock On Sunday I asked the FOIA Council to provide an advisory opinion on the University of Virginia’s decision that information about that school’s threat assessment team deliberations in the case of the November shooter, Christopher Jones, will not be released as I requested. I received the answer this afternoon, which is…
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Democrats Allege Democratic Party Suppressed Democratic Voters in Democratic Primary
by James C. Sherlock It must be Republicans’ fault. Bill Atkinson of the Progress Index reported yesterday that Tavorise Marks, a candidate, Hopewell businessman and local civil-rights advocate, claimed to have witnessed voter suppression in Wednesday’s Democratic primary for the open House of Representatives seat in Virginia 04. That he, Marks, a Democrat, had seen…
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Authority of Virginia Principals to Keep Schools Safe is Dangerously Undermined
by James C. Sherlock At St. Anthony school when I was a student, Sister Mary Adria was the final decision authority. The only one, really. Sister Adria was the principal. There was no division staff, for the simple reason that there was no division. I guess parents could have appealed to the pastor, but we…