Tag: James Sherlock
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McKinsey & Company Has You Covered
by James C. Sherlock Ever feel not only disconnected from, but ignored by central planners? Do you run a shoe store in Sterling or work for a hospital in Richmond? Use natural gas in your home or work? Teach in a public school in Wise County? Drive a gas-or diesel-powered vehicle? In other words, do…
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Senator Boysko on Home Defense
by James C. Sherlock I have a loaded 9 mm semiautomatic handgun in my house for defense against home invasion. Never take it out of the house except to the range. It is locked up but readily accessible, even in the dark by a 77-year-old. If my kids were still at home I would still…
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Anti-Capitalism Packaged as Antiracism Teaches Failure in Virginia Schools
by James C. Sherlock I have spent the last 15 years or so studying and reporting on the decline of scholarship and the rise of censorship at the University of Virginia and other state institutions of “higher learning.” The enforced closing of minds has been targeted to resurrect an economic system that failed everywhere in…
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R.I.P. Virginia Public Schools
by James C. Sherlock I have crafted and will share what I believe to be an epitaph for public education in Virginia. All of the evidence we see is that Virginia’s public school system, counseled and cheered on by its disgraceful publicly funded schools of education, is crumbling at its foundations. We start children in…
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The Shooting at Richneck Elementary – Part One
by James C. Sherlock There is trauma everywhere you look. A six-year-old boy shoots his teacher in school and we first consider the trauma. Then we look for ways to minimize its effects. And we simultaneously ask questions about the event itself. What happened and why? Unless we are personally involved, and even if we…
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Bob Good’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure
by James C. Sherlock Republican Rep. Bob Good (R-Va), who represents Virginia’s Fifth Congressional District, got his five minutes of fame. Yesterday he was given a tree with which to hang himself on The New York Times editorial page. His op-ed contained statements that Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-Tx) called “stupid platitudes that some consultant told…
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Why Law Enforcement Supports Gov. Youngkin’s Behavioral Health Transformation
by James C. Sherlock Updated Jan 6 at 13:10. Virginia’s sheriffs and police chiefs are reasonably hardened by what they see every day. They have very difficult jobs to do and are unlikely, either individually or in groups, to support nonsense. Governor Glenn Youngkin has accepted the challenge of finally fixing Virginia’s behavioral health system.…
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Democrats Want to Raise Youngkin-Proposed Mental Health Budget Increase
by James C. Sherlock There is fundamental agreement in Richmond over mental health services. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch: Virginia’s forecasts of long-term budget surpluses mean this year’s General Assembly has a chance to catch up with years of under-funding Virginia schools and the state’s behavioral health system, General Assembly Democrats say. To govern is to…
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Preparing for the Costs to Government of Virginia’s Generation COVID
by James C. Sherlock To justify her insistence on keeping schools closed, Randi Weingarten, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, said in February of 2021, “kids are resilient and kids will recover.” She brought that same message to Virginia. In one of the strangest choices in Virginia political history, Terry McAuliffe brought Weingarten…
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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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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…