Tag: Stephen D. Haner
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Who Was Williams Carter Wickham?
By Steve Haner Willams C. Wickham had his memorial in Richmond’s Monroe Park torn down a few nights ago. It was an Edward Valentine statue (will we burn the Valentine next?). Like many, I had walked by it in ignorance. As he passes from sight, a few facts about his life if you are interested.…
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Memorial Day 2020
It can’t all be John Philip Sousa today…. Pete Seeger captured the day best. Thankful that my grandfather, father and uncles, and my brother and son….all came home safe. SDH
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Why Is Our Governor Ignoring His Own Orders?
By Steve Haner If the overall case fatality rate for COVID-19 is 4 tenths of one percent, as the Centers for Disease Control just estimated, then perhaps 300,000 Virginians have or have had the disease. That’s working the math backwards from the 1,200 Virginia deaths reported so far. The chart below snipped from the CDC’s…
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New Virginia Battleground in War on Gas
By Steve Haner First published this morning in the Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. To the modern environmental movement, natural gas is the Devil’s own breath. It must be opposed in every form on every front. This explains the existential battle being fought over what would otherwise be considered fairly minor capital enhancements to an existing gas…
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Trailing Candidates Should Bail Out, Void Primary
By Steve Haner More often than not, the suspense in an election is over long before the polls open. That is the case with the two primary contests which will require me to sit in a polling place all day on June 23. The expected losers should just drop out now and save us all…
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Taken Like Hicks At A Carnival
By Steve Haner Anybody who closely read the so-called Virginia Clean Economy Act and had watched Dominion Energy Virginia’s previous manipulations of Virginia’s General Assembly could see what was coming. Despite its “billing,” that bill was never going to end the use of fossil fuels in Virginia. As early as February 13, I reported that…
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What Campbell Is Really Saying In the Photo
“Mara, you call Haner back. He’s really gonna be pissed he can’t come in Monday.” Somebody has to explain to me how my getting a haircut in downtown Richmond Monday posed a threat to city residents, city residents who will now be crowding into the barber shops and salons of nearby Henrico, Chesterfield and Hanover…
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Hidden, Spaced Out, Higher Taxes Coming
By Steve Haner First published this morning by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. The 2020 General Assembly, with its new progressive Democratic majority, passed a host of changes in Virginia tax laws that will begin to hit individuals and businesses in a few weeks on July 1. Because of the COVID-19 economic shutdown,…
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State Spending Hike Also Postponed, Not Canceled
By Steve Haner Originally published in the May 3 Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star and then distributed by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. Just as COVID-19 was starting its destruction of the world’s economy in early March, the Virginia General Assembly took final action on an exuberant two-year state budget within shouting distance of $140…
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Clean Economy Law Not So Green, Very Expensive
By Steve Haner Mel Leonor reports in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch that Dominion Energy Virginia and the Green Energy Oligarchs have used the Virginia General Assembly to empty your pockets with a false promise. According to Dominion’s own information, the highly touted Virginia Clean Energy Act (1) will not result in a total end to fossil…
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Heads Exploding Over Green Energy Expose
by Stephen Haner Producer Michael Moore’s explosive new documentary on the renewable energy industry is indeed causing heads to explode. You’d better take the 100 minutes to see Planet of the Humans before the forces of political correctness drive it off YouTube, where it was approaching 3 million views this morning. The first 30 minutes…
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COVID Casualty: Unemployment Insurance System
By Steve Haner This first appeared in today’s Richmond Times-Dispatch and has also been distributed by the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy. America’s and Virginia’s unemployment insurance program – born of the Great Depression and the Social Security Act of 1935 – may be another casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The virus has mutated…
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The Revolution Has Been Postponed, Not Canceled
by Steve Haner The revolution has merely been postponed, not cancelled. Governor Ralph Northam has asked the General Assembly to put off until May 1, 2021, the implementation of several key pro-union changes in Virginia’s labor and employment laws, including a 31% increase in the minimum wage. Saturday, April 11, was the deadline for Northam’s…
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No Fed Return Required, Other Questions Answered
by Steve Haner There were various factual debates over my post on tax payments yesterday, and these updates are worth special attention. A morning conversation with a certified public accounting familiar with Virginia taxes brought to light the following: If you fail to file a state return by May 1, the six-month extension truly is…
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Despite Offered Delays, Pay Your Taxes On Time
By Steve Haner The latest complaint against the Northam Administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic is failing to provide adequate state tax relief. The complaint comes from the Tax Foundation and surfaced in a news report in Wednesday’s Fredericksburg Free Lance-Star. The Richmond Times-Dispatch has now chimed in with an editorial. Apparently most other states…