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This week’s columns include:
The Devolution Solution
Any meaningful transportation reform would make fast-growth counties responsible for their secondary roads. The trick is coaxing them into going along.
by James A. Bacon
Catching Crayfish Craig
Understanding how Virginia grew a Nobel Price winner can inform everything from budget discussions to economic development strategies.
by Doug Koelemay
Big (Gray, Brown) Sky Country
Afflicted by global climate change and energy-inefficient human settlement patterns, my home state of Montana is on an unsustainable growth path.
by EM Risse
New Ideas, New Leaders
Transportation, education and the environment… We can solve these problems without throwing money at them. It just takes fresh ideas and bold leaders willing to implement them.
by Michael Thompson
Conservative Dilemma
Some choice. Conservatives in the 10th district can vote for Frank Wolf, a 26-year incumbent who has drifted leftward in recent years, or a former Clinton-era bureaucrat.
by Phil Rodokanakis
My Votes in the First District
I know you’ve been waiting breathlessly to hear how I’ll be voting in November. The suspense is over at last.
by James Atticus Bowden
When Journalists Attack
As the 2006 political season comes to a head, journalists are becoming more hostile to bloggers who invade their space.
by Conaway Haskins
Lighting a Fire Under the Mule
Barnie Day planned to deliver this speech to a Sorenson Institute event earlier this month, but the program changed. Rather than waste a perfectly good speech, he shared it with Bacon’s Rebellion.
by Barnie Day
Nice & Curious Questions
Left Out, or What Happened to Zachary Taylor?
by Edwin S. Clay III and Patricia Bangs