Category Archives: Business

If U.S. Copies Europe, “It Will End in Tears”

Posted on April 1, 2022 by Stephen D. Haner

“Don’t follow our path.  Don’t copy the Europeans.  It will end in tears,” Peiser said.  Continue reading →

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Green New Deal Still Rules in Virginia

Posted on March 11, 2022 by Stephen D. Haner

The elections of a Republican Virginia governor and a new Republican majority in the House of Delegates have not changed Virginia’s status as one of the greenest of Green New Deal states in the country.  Every effort to reverse the … Continue reading →

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Mason-Dixon Poll: Virginia Voters Support Collective Bargaining Reforms

Posted on February 1, 2022 by F. Vincent Vernuccio

With several localities in Virginia having passed ordinances allowing government unions a monopoly on representing public employees, the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy today released results of Mason-Dixon poll commissioned to measure certain provisions commonly contained in those ordinances. … Continue reading →

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How California Now Controls Virginia Auto Market

Posted on December 10, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

Virginia’s automotive sales market is now officially controlled in Sacramento, with the likelihood that no new internal combustion engines can be sold in the Commonwealth after 2035. The Virginia Air Pollution Control Board, acting not with discretion but on orders … Continue reading →

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Heat Rule Gets Cold Shoulder

Posted on December 6, 2021 by Stephen D. Haner

Virginia’s Safety and Health Codes Board on Friday voted down a proposed workplace heat protection standard, strongly opposed by the state’s business community but ardently sought by organized labor and farmworker advocates. The Department of Labor and Industry (DOLI) was seeking to … Continue reading →

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