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Peter
Galuszka is a veteran
journalist with more than three decades experience.
His credentials include stints as Moscow
Bureau Chief and International News Editor in
New York for BusinessWeek, and Executive Editor of Virginia
Business magazine.
Galuszka
grew up in North Carolina, the Washington, D.C.,
area, and
West Virginia. He graduated from Georgetown
Preparatory School
outside Washington and earned a degree in political science/international
relations at Tufts University
near Boston.
He
started journalism at a small daily in Eastern North
Carolina. His professional background includes work
in Washington, Cleveland
and Chicago for McGraw-Hill. Closer to home,
Galuszka has worked as a reporter for The Virginian-Pilot
and the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where jobs
included environmental reporting and investigative
journalism.
Galuszka
writes for Bacon's Rebellion as well as a number of
national finance, business and education magazines.
He also runs Galuszka
Associates, which does competitive intelligence.
He
is married with two daughters.
Columns
September
8: The
Numerati. In
the land of the mathematically challenged, the "numerati"
rule as kings. These inscrutable geniuses massage the
data that drives business decisions -- and,
increasingly, determines who wins elections.
August
25: 10
Annoying Things About Virginia.
Sure,
we're smart and prosperous, but some things still turn
my crank.
August
4: The
Netherworld of FDA Regulation. Getting
the agency to oversee tobacco is creating strange
bedfellows and will end up keeping the status quo –
letting thousands more die.
July
21: My
Lunch with Big Oil.
Mr.
Big Oil spilled the beans: Offshore oil drilling means
bupkis for Virginia. He ginned up the flap here in the
Old Dominion to win support for opening up California,
Alaska and the Gulf where the big barrels are.
June
23: Richmond
vs. Charlotte: an Update. Charlotte,
N.C., snarfed up Richmond's big commercial banks in the
early '90s, a coup at the time. Fifteen years later, the
sub-prime fiasco is pinching Richmond, but it's putting
the Tarheels in a world of hurt.
June
2: VCU
and the Evil Weed.
VCU
President Eugene Trani blew Richmond’s reputation by going along with a noxious Philip
Morris research contract.
May
19: The
Weird World of Massey Energy. Controversial,
Richmond-based coal firm enjoys energy boom times
while wielding political clout and beating back
critics with an in-your-face style
.
May
5: Mountain
Women Die Younger.
A
national study shows females in poor areas like Radford
and Pulaski have diminished life expectancies. Poor diet
and lack of insurance are likely culprits.
April
21: The
Kaine Mutiny.
Is
Dominion’s coal-fired plant destroying the
Governor’s political future?
April
7: Creating
a New Segregation.
When
Richmond combined Jim Crow with urban planning in the
1940s, the result was expressways, the destruction of
African-American neighborhoods and white flight.
March
24: The
War Bill Comes Due.
The
hidden costs of the Iraq war are a bigger economic
debacle than the sub-prime mess.
February
25: The
Big Lie? Headlines
tie immigrants to sex crimes as politicians like
GOP gubernatorial hopeful McDonnell cash in on the
xenophobia they stir up.
February
11: Call
for Philip Morris.
Richmond’s elite lauds the cigarette maker for putting
its R&D center downtown. But its newly s pun-off
sister unit still aims to make butts the
old-fashioned way, endangering the lives of
millions around the world.
January
5: Strife
in the Coalfields. Dominion’s
plans to build a coal-fired plant stir worries about
greenhouse gases, ozone, smog, dirty coal trucks and
mountaintop removal.
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December
27: Rethinking
North Anna.
Sure,
Dominion’s third nuclear unit would have a small
carbon footprint and be politically correct. But there
are plenty of unanswered questions, from safety, to
unproven new technologies, to cost, to fuel.
December
10: Forget
Passenger Rail.
Norfolk
Southern's CEO provides clarity regarding the high cost
of infrastructure and the lack of political will to pay
for it. So much for the dreamy-eyed fantasies of those
pricey consultants.
November
26: The
Invisible Working Class.
Blogger
Bageant reveals the bleak prospects for Virginia’s
working class, using Winchester as his laboratory. Why
don’t elites care?
November
12: The
70 percent solution.
Virginians
look to local government for solid data on issues like
illegal immigration. But there is no evidence supporting
Chesterfield County's estimate that seven of 10
Hispanics in the county are there illegally.
October
29: Alternate
Universe. There's one world that
participates in a globally connected economy. Then
there's Virginia, which is making a name for itself
as a hotbed of nativism.
October
15: Plato's
Cave.
Some may rejoice at the decline of the
"Mainstream Media" but cuts in news staffs
threaten to leave us ill informed about what's
happening around the world. No number of blogs can
make up for it.
October
1: Virginia
is for Gulags.
A plan for a special prison for illegal aliens is
jolting. Is it really needed, or is its purpose to
draw attention from GOP failures?
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