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A 10 Percent Increase in Real Wages?
Wow! … if true. From Secretary of Commerce Juan Pablo ‘s December newsletter: Over the last year, we’ve announced 156 billion dollars in net new capital investment across the Commonwealth. That growth is broad-based. We currently have 220,000 open jobs, with 85,000 more on the way, plus another 40,000 construction jobs. Because of this opportunity,…
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Bill Could Release Dangerous Murderers
by Hans Bader A bill introduced in Virginia could lead to the release of dangerous murderers who committed their crime as teenagers. If passed, SB60 would mandate that the Virginia Parole “Board shall not deny parole for a juvenile offender based on factors outside of his demonstrated ability to change, such as the nature of…
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Geographic Schism Among Virginia Dems?
Louise Lucas, D-Portsmouth, the president pro tempore of the state Senate, goes on to tweet: Recently Fairfax commissioned a study with the Weldon Cooper Center at UVA claiming they only get 50 cents back on each tax dollar raised by the Commonwealth. This is false- and is a number derived by only counting money we…
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AI Comes For That All-Important Christmas Card Photo
by Kerry Dougherty Every summer I beg my family to pose for a group shot on the beach wearing Santa hats. It would be such a cute Christmas card picture, I insist. They stubbornly refuse to cooperate, so I’m stuck trying to get that perfect picture four weeks before Christmas. It never works. Someone closes…
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Apology
I have deleted a post, based upon a tweet on X, highlighting the teaching of a course on “whiteness” at the University of Virginia based on an article in UVA Today. That article was published in 2014, hence irrelevant to current-day controversies. Thanks to commenter Irrwuz for pointing that out. I am embarrassed by the…