Tag: Peter Galuszka
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The Mercy Seat
Author Dale M. Brumfield’s new book chronicles the abolishment of Virginia’s death penalty. by Peter Galuszka Style Weekly In 2015, Dale M. Brumfield, a veteran journalist and author, was finishing a masters degree in fine art in writing at Virginia Commonwealth University. He learned of a prison inmate who escaped from Virginia to Florida, lived…
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Dust Mites Book Review: “A Surprisingly Creative Effort.”
by Peter Galuszka Jim Bacon has released a self-published novel that is wildly imaginative. He envisions the politics of a U.S.-related colony on the moon in the year 2075. At Galileo Station, a semi-autonomous outpost, residents live and work in underground spaces while they work to harvest various important minerals as well as a helium…
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Millionaire vs. Millionaire
This article was published originally in Style Weekly. by Peter Galuszka Call it a tale of two campaign stops. Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin picks a small office building in a working-class part of Emporia, a Southside town where Amtrak passenger trains no longer stop. It is chiefly known for stock car driving and speed…
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Is It Time to Say Goodbye to Virginia Coal Exports??
By Peter Galuszka Oilprice.com, a petroleum trade newsletter, has a story that could spell more bad news for the faltering Virginia coal industry. For many years, the most valuable product from Virginia’s coal fields was coking or metallurgical coal that is exported to other countries for use in steel making. China has been a crucial…
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Northam’s Good Move: End Executions
By Peter Galuszka Governor Ralph Northam will propose legislation to ban executions in the state. The move could end decades of systemic racism in the criminal justice system. “I’ve strongly about this for a long time,” he was quoted as saying. The bill will be taken up by the General Assembly, which met in its…
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You Were Warned
By Peter Galuszka Here are some posts over the past year warning of what happened Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. https://www.baconsrebellion.com/is-a-mighty-storm-coming/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-new-face-of-virginias-gop/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-plot-to-nab-northam/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-very-real-threat-of-boogaloo/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/the-real-danger-with-antifa/ https://www.baconsrebellion.com/notes-from-the-right-wing-echo-chamber/ One other note: One Trump rioter was photographed holding a bunch of white flex cuff handcuffs, presumably to restrain Nancy Pelosi, Mike Pence and others. It reminded me…
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A New Fad: Bashing Offshore Wind Turbines
By Peter Galuszka Offshore wind power is becoming a whipping boy even as the technology involved becomes more advanced and its costs go down. Northwestern Europe is offshore wind headquarters globally and countries such as the United Kingdom have wholeheartedly embraced it. Yet some critics, some of whom are supported financially by the fossil fuel…
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Critical Lizard Theory Sweeps Nation
By Peter Galuszka Bacon’s Rebellion has been filled with many thumbsuckers about how “Critical Race Theory” is an existential threat to Western Civilization. But now there is a new theory of concern that makes the racial considerations seem, well, so 2020. It is called “Critical Lizard Theory” and it actually exists. According to NBC News,…
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The New Face of Virginia’s GOP
By Peter Galuszka If ever one photo best describes what 2020 was like in Virginia, this shot, by the brilliant veteran photographer Scott Elmquist at Style Weekly, shows it. The photo is of state Sen. Amanda Chase, R-Chesterfield, at a July 4 rally at the capitol. Her defiant expression, the assault-style rifle and the over-the-top…
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The Virginia City Boondoggle
By Peter Galuszka Back in 2007, Dominion Energy was touting its new hybrid generating plant near St. Paul in Southwest Virginia as the wave of the future because it would burn coal and wood using advanced fluidized bed technologies. But for eight months this year, the 624-megawatt Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center operated at only…
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WTJU Podcast on State’s Economy
By Peter Galuszka This may be familiar turf for some readers, but here is a podcast I worked on with WTJU, the radio station of the University of Virginia. It gives a larger overview of the changes that data centers are making in the state’s economy and what that might mean in the future. This…
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Liberty’s Curious “Think Tank”
By Peter Galuszka Imagine there is a “think tank” at a private, non-profit university. It produces no academic papers and does no peer-reviewed research. Instead, it holds podcasts, seminars and buys ads on Facebook that obviously promote a political party and president. Would that be a “think tank” or a political action committee? That about…
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The Strange Case of the Pandemic Patriots
by Peter Galuszka In rural Southwest Virginia, the coronavirus pandemic has gotten so bad that Ballad Health, a major health care provider there, is suspending elective surgery for a month. System-wide, Ballad, which also operates in adjacent states, had 45 available beds as of Wednesday, only 13 or 14 of them ICU beds, according to…
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The Lies in “Hillbilly Elegy”
By Peter Galuszka A 2016 memoir by J.D. Vance, a former Ohio resident, drew praise from conservatives for its laud of self-reliance and disciple and criticism from others for its long string of debunked clichés about people from the Central Appalachians. The book, “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis,”…
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Behind Dominion’s Shift to Renewables
By Peter Galuszka Ever wonder why Dominion Energy found religion and announced a major shift to renewable energy? The answer is that modern, high technology businesses want it and the Richmond-based utility wants to respond to their desires. This one of the themes in this recent cover story I did for Style Weekly that explores…