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Hallelujah! No More Tax Dollars For NPR And PBS!
WHRO, the Norfolk-based public radio station, will lose $2 million in federal funding following a U.S. Senate vote to slash $9 billion in federal spending on public broadcasting and foreign aid. That amounts to 9% of the station’s $21 million budget, reports VPM News. WHRO serves the same media market as WTAR, which broadcasts The…
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Dominion’s Gas-Dependent IRP Not Accepted or Rejected by SCC
By Steve Haner The State Corporation Commission has judged Dominion Energy Virginia’s latest integrated resource plan (IRP) – the one with controversial proposals for additional use of natural gas— to be merely “legally sufficient.” In its final order issued July 15, the commission applied the term “reasonable” to only a few elements of Dominion’s 15-year…
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Reid’s Nuanced Position on Gay-Marriage Amendment
John Reid, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, stakes out a conservative issue on almost every important issue but one — gay marriage. As a gay man in a committed long-term relationship, he supports gay marriage. Yet he would vote against a constitutional amendment before the General Assembly as currently written because it might abrogate…
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Too Early to Construct Narratives
by James A. Bacon In a statement to the University of Virginia faculty senate, Acting President J.J. Davis confirmed yesterday that the university had obtained outside counsel to assist in negotiations with the Department of Justice regarding “many areas of the inquiry” relating to the dismantling of racial preferences and DEI. “Through counsel, UVA is…
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Trapped in an Ideological Bubble
by James A. Bacon Michael Paul Williams, the Richmond Times-Dispatch columnist who won a Pulitzer Prize for his post-George Floyd commentary, is trapped in an ideological bubble and can’t break out. When opining on the departure of Jim Ryan from the University of Virginia presidency in his most recent column, he displays a bare-bones familiarity…
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Avoiding Transparency
by Jon Baliles Richmond Mayor Danny Avula ran on a platform to clean up City Hall and be a transparent mayor, but so far he has done little to differentiate his administration from that of his predecessor, who wrote the book on how to master obfuscation and ignoring the public’s right to know. Avula could…
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GMU Begins Orientation with a Land Acknowledgement
by Liberty Unyielding staff This fall, a Virginia couple are sending their daughter to George Mason University, Virginia’s largest public university, which has over 40,000 students. On June 30, they and their daughter attended mandatory student orientation from 9:30 am to 5:45 pm. GMU’s sports teams are called “the Patriots.” The first presentation in the…
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How to Craft a Happy Ending from the Ryan Saga
by Paul Goldman “[For] me, the promise of America is equal opportunity for every individual.” This is a core belief for axed University of Virginia President Jim Ryan. Read his best-known book. Most sensible Virginia Democrats would agree. Most sensible Virginia Republicans too. Ironically, the quote itself actually didn’t come from Ryan. Or any Virginia Democrat…
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Taxes and Trans Are the Winning Ticket for GOP, Reid Says
by James A. Bacon Taxes and transgender rights are the two big issues that John Reid, Republican nominee for lieutenant general, thinks will bring him victory in a year where the conventional wisdom favors a Democratic sweep in statewide elections. Most Virginians hate the car tax, and an increasing number are stressed by the steady…
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Dedicating a Statue to George Washington — in London
When Governor Glenn Youngkin visited France and the UK last week on an economic development trip, he rededicated the London statue of George Washington at Trafalgar Square gifted by the United States. Imagine that: the Brits honoring a statue of a traitor to the crown! One wonders what the reaction would have been if Youngkin…
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VMI Board Makes Own Calls Without Direction From the Governor, says Gottwald
On June 10 Teddy Gottwald, president of the Virginia Military Institute Board of Visitors, wrote a letter to House Majority Leader Scott Surovell, D-Fairfax, in response to Surovell’s statement justifying the Privileges & Elections Committee vote to block four of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s nominees to the VMI Board. The letter is somewhat old news at…