Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Oceanfront Unisex Bathrooms? What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
by Kerry Dougherty Of all the cockamamie ideas cooked up at City Hall in Virginia Beach, this may win an award. A fat, legal award. But that’ll come later. Right now the city is bursting with pride over its new, $650,000 5-stall unisex restroom at 20th Street. Because let’s be honest, there’s nothing women like…
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Virginia Beach’s Bad Habit: Reckless Spending on Wasteful Projects
by Kerry Dougherty Feckless leadership, wasteful spending and escalating taxes have plagued Virginia Beach for decades. Despite new faces on city council, the game of spending tax dollars on insane projects that “will pay for themselves” continues. But let’s back up. Here’s one prescient story from The Virginian-Pilot in 2007. The headline: “Virginia Beach Sportsplex…
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You’ve Been to Paris but You’ve Never Been to the Luray Caverns?
by Kerry Dougherty Today we’re taking a break from politics, woke culture and indictments. It’s Explore Beautiful Virginia time. A midsummer palate cleanser! But first a question: Why does every tourist destination sell fudge? More precisely, is there some sort of law that mandates every vacation spot feature a “fudgery”? Is there something about salt…
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No Boys in Girls Sports. Period.
by Kerry Dougherty Good news for mediocre male athletes in Virginia: tired of getting cut from the boys’ teams? Slap on some lipstick and play with the girls. The governing body of high school sports has your back! Yep, the Virginia High School League this week gave the middle finger to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s policy…
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Heat Wave? Here In Southeastern Virginia We Call It July.
by Kerry Dougherty Stop the presses. It’s July 26th. And it’s hot. My trusty iPhone weather app says it will hit 91 today, 94 Thursday and 96 on Friday. Who could have predicted such temperatures? Actually, all of us. It’s called JULY. And yes, much of the country is in a record heat wave with…
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I’m Never Voting On Election Day Again. Join Me!
by Kerry Dougherty It’s strange to think that I will never again get up on Election Day and head to the polls. I’ll never again take my granddaughter with me to see me fill out my ballot and drop it into the ballot counter. I’ll never again grab two “I Voted” stickers — one for…
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Virginia: Look West To See What’s Coming
by Kerry Dougherty Reason #5,692 not to vote for ANY Democrats running for the General Assembly this fall: We all know that Virginia’s leftists in Richmond yearn for our lovely commonwealth to be more like California. When last they controlled the state legislature these nuts directly tethered our energy policies to that “progressive” utopia. It…
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Public School Clubs: What Happened To Chess, Drama and Debate?
by Kerry Dougherty Never mind that public school test scores are plummeting and that kids from coast to coast are falling hopelessly behind. The Biden Administration is focused on one thing: “inclusion.” On June 21 the Department of Education issued a “toolkit” called “Creating Inclusive and Nondiscriminatory School Environments For LGBTQI+ Students.” Included in the…
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Virginia Primary Elections: Dems Lurch Leftward, GOP Moves to the Middle
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia’s November elections for control of the General Assembly may be the most important in a generation. Will Virginia become Berkeley east? Or will it return to being a sane, moderate commonwealth? Great news! Tuesday’s primaries saw the GOP cut loose its clown candidates, while Democrats embraced theirs. A look at this…
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Light Rail: Idiotic Idea In 2016. Idiotic Idea Now.
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Beach voters THOUGHT they drove a stake through the heart of the absurd plan to bring light rail to the city after an overwhelming vote in 2016 against the nutty, developer-driven boondoggle. But never underestimate cultists with an agenda. You know, developers who believe taxpayers have a duty to open their…
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Virginia Beach School Board Holds Virtue-Signaling Vote at 2:15 a.m.
by Kerry Dougherty Wanted: One more member with common sense for the Virginia Beach School Board. Unfortunately, that won’t happen until the next election in 2024. In the meantime, the narrow woke majority that did its best to keep masks on kids, keep schools closed, dumbed down the city’s public schools and pandered to special…
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Pat Robertson, 1930-2023
by Kerry Dougherty To those of us who live in Virginia Beach, Pat Robertson, who died yesterday at the age of 93, was more than just a religious broadcaster who ran for president in 1988. He was a man who built a television network, a university, a major charity, and a law school in our…
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Political Correctness More Important than Accuracy in News Reports of Slaying
by Kerry Dougherty Is it too much to ask the news media to put accuracy ahead of their political agendas? We asked this in March when activists were more obsessed with pronouns than the fact that the trans Nashville school shooter, who killed three little kids and three adults, was occasionally referred to as a…
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Thanks, Loudoun County! We Needed That.
by Kerry Dougherty Dear Loudoun County, Thanks so much for hiring Aaron Spence as your new superintendent of schools. Love, Virginia Beach Good news for those who care about returning sanity and common sense to Virginia Beach Public Schools: superintendent Aaron Spence is leaving to head up the troubled Loudoun County Public schools. Spence is…
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Every Day is Memorial Day in Normandy
by Kerry Dougherty My most memorable Memorial Day did not take place on Memorial Day at all, but a few weeks earlier. In May of 1982. But then again, every day is Memorial Day when you stand on those beaches at Normandy. It was a glorious spring morning on the coast of France. The sky…