Category: Blogs and Blog Administration
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I’m Going to Kansas City, Kansas City Here I Come
My blogging will be light for the next few days, as I am heading to the New Partners for Smart Growth conference in Kansas City. I am flattered to participate in a plenary session in which I will get to deliver my spiel, “Smart Growth for Conservatives.” I’m stoked because this will be the largest…
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Sandy, Nukes, the Internet and Climate Change
By Peter Galuszka Super-storm Sandy raises more issues about nuclear power, the internet and also about global warming. As the storm struck the New Jersey coast and flooded New York City, three nuclear rectors were shut down because of problems with high water levels and electricity. Another reactor went on standby “alert” because its water…
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Bacon on the Move Again
I haven’t been to Europe for nearly 25 years, but this afternoon the Bacon family will be embarking on a 10-day trip that includes a lengthy stay in a major European city, with a side excursion to Normandy and Paris. There will be plenty of museums to tour, architecture to view, one of the most…
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Hail ($6 million) to the Redskins!
By Peter Galuszka There’s something strange here: Virginia loses a major oil company and 2,100 high-paying jobs but we get to spend $6 million or more in state and local taxpayers money to keep the hapless Washington Redskins in the Old Dominion instead of Maryland and get them to practice a few weeks a year…
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“It’s for you!”
By Peter Galuszka The coincidences are revealing. How many times have you read this blog and you find that much of the comment seems scripted from afar. The American Legislative Exchange Council, the cabal of right wing business and propagandists who draft laws for harried state legislators, pushes a template for private school tuition tax…
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Five Ways Virginia Sucks
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in Blogs and Blog Administration, Children and Families, Consumer Protection, Courts and law, Demographics, Disasters and Disaster Preparedness, Economic development, Energy, Environment, Government Finance, Gun rights, LGBQT, Money in politics, Science & Technology, Social Services and EntitlementsBy Peter Galuszka An alternative blogger is listing five ways Virginia may be the worst state in the union, a.k.a. “Bob Land.” Tara Lohan of AlterNet notes that generally, watching the news these days is like going through a time warp when it comes to debates about birth control or teaching science in the classroom.…
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Bad Days for Mickey D.
By Peter Galuszka There must be considerable gnashing of teeth in the Governor’s Mansion. Robert F. McDonnell had been working so hard to distance himself from his social conservative past, notably that nettlesome and Neanderthal anti-gay and anti-female graduate thesis. He had worked hard to remake himself as a reasonable moderate, thus setting himself up…
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Multimedia Enterprise Emerges from the Muck of the Virginia Blogosphere
by James A. Bacon Bearing Drift Media has announced a merger with Virginia Line Media LLC to provide conservative content to Virginians across multiple channels, including the Internet, print, radio and social networks. The combination represents the first instance I can recall of Virginia bloggers making a serious bid to bootstrap their way into mainstream…
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Norm and Jim on the Score
Scott Lee with the Score Radio Network interviews Chris Horner with the American Tradition Institute about ATI’s Freedom of Information Act battle with the University of Virginia, Norm Leahy about Eric Cantor’s federal disaster kerfuffle and yours truly about President Obama’s government-centric jobs program. Click here to access the radio clips. — Jim Bacon
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The Wonk Salon, September 11, 2011
Free Market Telecom Works in Texas Texas Public Policy Foundation Texas has deregulated local telephone service and promoted competition in video. Since 2001, the number of broadband subscribers has grown more than 1,015%. The Unproven Case for Missouri Aerotropolis Show-Me Institute Missouri legislation would subsidize the air cargo industry at the St. Louis airport to…
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Welcome Les Schreiber
A new writer has joined the Bacon’s Rebellion roster — Les Schreiber. Les was born and raised in Richmond, moved to New York City, where he worked on Wall Street, and then returned to the Holy City to teach economics and political science at the Maggie L. Walker Governor’s School. I have known Les for…
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He’s Baaaack! Welcome Norm Leahy
For long-time followers of the Rebellion, Norm Leahy needs no introduction. But in case you’re relatively new to the blog, Norm is one Virginia’s longest-running and most illustrious bloggers, and the Rebellion had the good fortune to have him contribute columns in the days of yore. As part of our re-launch, we are expanding the…
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Migration Update
The Bacon’s Rebellion blog migration continues. I have succeeded in moving all 3,500 blog posts to this website, but only 40% of the comments. Additionally, I need to undertake an additional maneuver to move the author attributions. In other words, we have the stories, but not who they are written by! I will be working…