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Roanoke City Council Shares the Blame

It is very disingenuous, but easy for the city council to blame the previous city manager, who, by the way they hired, for the financial woes of the city....

Youngkin Moves to Curb Energy Price Hikes, Questions Clean Economy Act

With one exception, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has now vetoed the contested energy bills...

Lawsuit Challenges NRC Rules on Small Nuclear Reactors

Virginia is not directly involved, but with our nuclear industrial base, a pending federal lawsuit over...

Why Tax Exemptions for Harvard and Confederate Groups Should Stand

Every taxpayer dollar sent to any university or private entity should be closely scrutinized. In...

The High Cost of Uncertainty for Virginia’s Workers and Businesses

Asked nearly 40 years ago what he needed most, less regulation or lower taxes, a...

A Corporate, Bottom-Line Attitude Has Altered How Medicine Is Practiced

The Prescription Could Be An Injection Of Humanity, Physician Says The changes in medical care over the last five decades have been dramatic. Technological and scientific...

Goodlatte & Capuano: College Ratings Plan Not The Answer

By Reps. Michael Capuano (D-Mass.) and Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) - 02/26/15 Do engineers matter more than the science teachers who fired their imaginations? Are accounting majors more valuable...

An Animal-Free Circus Is More Fun!

Let's figure out a creative way to make the animal circus a thing of the past in Roanoke! The worldwide trend is for circuses to...

Christmas: No Time for Public Expression of Faith?

Around this time of the year, the “War on Christmas” and the “War on the War on Christmas” once again enter the public discourse,...

Why Educational Reform Cannot Work

Think of our schools as a horse and buggy – it worked well in a different time, but times have changed. Educational needs have...

Countering Senate Inaction

Throughout this year, the House of Representatives acted to pass numerous appropriations bills to fund federal agencies and keep the government operating. Unfortunately, keeping...