Tag: Guest Contributor
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A View from Delaware: States Caused PJM Price, Supply Problems
By David Stevenson, PJM Interconnection, the organization that manages the electric grid for 13 states including Delaware, has confirmed what the Caesar Rodney Institute (CRI) has long argued: state mandates are raising bills and straining reliability. Delaware policymakers now face a choice—continue policies that risk higher costs and outages or adopt measures that keep power…
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The Rest of America Comments on Jones’ Murderous Texts
By Donald Smith, “Why are so many Democrats such hateful, ‘I hope people die’ bastards?” That’s the headline on the “Irons in The Fire” blog on October 6th. I won’t recap what the blogger, “Firehand,” wrote. We’ve all seen it before, over and over the past few days. It’s about Jay Jones. What’s noteworthy is…
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Jones’ Behavior: A Stunning Lack of Maturity
By Gordon C. Morse, So, why was Democrat Jay Jones – he of the Quentin Tarantino imagination – sending highly partisan and politically suicidal text messages to a Republican member of the House of Delegates? Del. Carrie Coyner, R-Chesterfield, the recipient of these merry notes, says she passed them on to their focus of interest,…
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Only Some Job Losses Trigger Media and Political Outrage
By Paul Driessen When Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently laid off 1,350 employees as part of a broader restructuring effort, the media response was swift and emotional. Stories of tearful farewells, union outrage, and dramatic claims of “fascism” filled the airwaves. One would think these federal employees had lifetime appointments and that accountability or…
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Youngkin Veto of AI Bill Praised by Louisiana Group
Reprinted from the Pelican Tech & Innovation Center Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly and powering solutions previously unimaginable. At the same time, AI legislation is on the rise and a patchwork of state restrictions looms over the momentum of innovators and US leadership. This Monday, HB 2094, the High-Risk Artificial Intelligence Developer and Deployer Act, was…
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An Obtuse Angle on the Honesty Gap
by Dale Chu Virginia’s latest bid to raise academic standards took center stage at last month’s state board of education meeting, where policymakers debated the future of the state’s proficiency benchmarks. At the heart of this discussion is Virginia’s “honesty gap”—the misleadingly high proficiency rates reported on state exams compared to the more sobering results on…
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Blame the Nurses — or the Nursing-Home Profiteers?
by Jim Wright So, who’s the real culprit? Eighteen nurses were recently arrested at Colonial Heights Nursing Home, charged with elder abuse and falsification of records. Surely, there was wrongdoing here, but does the blame belong to 18 nurses only? In my experience as a nursing-home medical director, I’ve learned that sometimes the first “culprit”…
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Monopoly Beer and Electric Vehicles
By Brett A. Vassey, Spoiler alert! This is not an article about a new board game, but about a game in which the Virginia General Assembly writes the rules and picks the winners. House Bill 2087 was introduced by Delegate Irene Shin, D-Fairfax. It cleared the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee on a narrow 7-6…
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Virginia Students Missing Even Low Expectations
By Hannah Schmid Virginia students continued to struggle to meet national proficiency standards based on results in the recently released 2024 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Reading scores remained stagnant among Virginia’s fourth graders while math scores slightly increased. Among Virginia’s eighth graders, scores in both reading and math declined. Every…
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Mandatory Vehicle Inspections Expensive, Burdensome, Unproven
By Joshua Devamithran Virginia’s mandatory vehicle safety inspection program is less than a decade away from its centennial anniversary. Established in 1932, Virginia’s inspection program is the oldest continuous program in the country. In 1975, thirty-one states and the District of Columbia had mandatory safety inspection programs. Today, Virginia is one of just fifteen states…