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Virginia Needs a 21st Century Energy Plan-NOW

Virginia is at a crossroad. Either we decide to plan for the next 50 years now or we face energy shortages in the future. If we wish to maintain our robust business climate we must have a consistent, high quality supply of electricity and transportation fuels. Continue reading

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What Cyber Charter Schools Have to Offer

Virginia has only three operating charter schools, and the concept of virtual schools is still a new frontier. But around the country, both are expanding – often together – and they offer lessons for the Old Dominion. Continue reading

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Virginia Energy Policy: Electricity Production & the Coal Option

Without question, coal is an important resource to Virginia and to make changes in production and use will require a well thought out energy plan and a large capital outlay. Continue reading

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Where the School Boards Association is Right

Though Virginia may currently be a vast wasteland for quality charter innovation that could help kids, the Virginia School Boards Association is right on this: the quality of the charter applications that are received by local boards is often quite poor. Changes proposed by the NACPS, however, could change that. Continue reading

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Progressive Environmentalism – The New Green is Pink?

To solve the problems of the Chesapeake Bay, we need stewardship, which can include regulation. But we don’t need the interventionist economics that comes with progressive environmentalism. Continue reading

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