Monthly Archives: January 2009

This Holiday Means Help for the Economy

America’s small businesses are hurting. Here’s how we can help them get back on their feet. Continue reading

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The Right to Choose…Secretly

It may seem like a distant problem for a Right to Work state like Virginia, but if the Employee Free Choice Act, or the “card check bill,” is passed it will just be the first of many small efforts to slowly whittle away at employee freedom. Continue reading

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The Ultimate Tax Cut that can Help President Obama get America's Economy Moving Again

In order to make real, effective change, sometimes you have to be bold…real bold. A No Income Tax proposal retroactive to January 1, 2008 and lasting until 2011 for more than 70 million families nationwide is certainly that. Continue reading

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Wanted: A Virginia Land Inventory

Recent efforts by Ohio and Georgia have shown how a good land management system can lead to increased effectiveness and efficiency in government. Virginia started down this path under Governors Allen and Warner, but needs to redouble its effort just to catch up. Continue reading

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Global Virginia

Globalization is no passing fad, meaning well-integrated, “World Cities” will be economic engines in the future. For Virginia that means rethinking how our regions interact and work together, how we educate our citizens and how we project ourselves to the rest of the world. Continue reading

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