Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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Raven Baxter Found Her Virginia Beach Dream Home. The Owner Didn’t Want To Sell To A Black Woman.
by Kerry Dougherty I’m just going to say this: 84 is not THAT old. Being born in 1940 is no excuse for behaving like a modern-day segregationist. Guess who was born that year? Al Pacino, Ringo Starr, Dionne Warwick, Chuck Norris, Cliff Richard, Mario Andretti, Nancy Pelosi and the late John Lennon and Bruce Lee.…
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Footloose Aaron Spence. Having Fun On Loudoun County’s Dime
Republished with permission from Kerry: Unemployed and Unedited. by Kerry Dougherty Let’s just admit it. Those of us who thought Aaron Spence was a disaster as Virginia Beach School Superintendent are experiencing a shameless bout of schadenfreude. Yep, we’re enjoying the misfortune of others. Those “others” would be Loudoun County parents and taxpayers. Aaron Spence…
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Two-Mile Moonscape in Virginia Beach: Thanks, Bureaucrats!
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Beach politicians are doing their happy dance. Earlier this week state officials gave them good news: they’re “near the finish line” on the Laskin Road project. Oh, please. We’ve seen this movie before. Let’s review, shall we? In 2019 construction began on the two-mile-long road widening project through the heavily traveled…
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Riley Gaines: Role Model
by Kerry Dougherty We live in a world hungry for role models for our young children. Especially girls. I met one yesterday. Twenty-four year old Riley Gaines. Champion athlete and accidental feminist. Poised, proud and witty. Listen to her speak for an hour and you’ll be convinced this smart and attractive dynamo can accomplish almost…
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No, Virginia Beach Did NOT Cut Taxes
by Kerry Dougherty I don’t normally link to Virginian-Pilot stories. Today is an exception. Find the fiction in this one: “Virginia Beach Adopts $2.6 Billion Budget, Cutting Taxes and Increasing City Worker Pay.” Once again, the press joins the city in spreading a fantasy. This time it’s that when the city council lowered the property…
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Virginia Beach Budget Will Lower Your Standard of Living
When Councilman John Moss narrowly lost his seat on City Council in a 2022 three-way race, Virginia Beach lost the lone elected official who actually understood municipal budgeting. Moss could be counted on to make city budgeteers squirm as he peppered them with intelligent questions about why they continually funded vacant city jobs and then…
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Mother’s Day in Virginia
by Kerry Dougherty It all began in 2020. Our annual Mother’s Day escape. Four years ago Ralph Northam’s reign of Covid despotism was underway and we were desperate to shake off the suffocating restrictions he imposed on a weekly basis. (The governor’s Thursday press conferences were a source of stress and dread for many of…
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Virginia Is Not California. Or New York.
by Kerry Dougherty By pro-Hamas standards, the protests at the University of Virginia were anemic. Estimates placed the size of the “crowds” that began gathering on Grounds – as they say in Charlottesville – last week ranged from about 12 to perhaps as many as 50. The Hamas fan club was clustered near the chapel…
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Unmask the Death-To-America Rioters
by Kerry Dougherty It’s time. Time to burn the last foul-smelling remnant of the Ralph Northam regime. Actually, it’s long past time to once again enforce an important part of the Code of Virginia: 18.2-422. “Prohibition of wearing masks in…any public place. This law was active from 1950 until Northam the Awful – the doctor…
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Beach College Weekend Was a Dud: The Good News & The Bad.
by Kerry Dougherty Talk about spinning until you’re dizzy, get a load of the local coverage of last weekend’s taxpayer-subsidized Audacity Oceanfront Concerts: Describing the anemic “crowds” as “smaller-than-expected” The Virginian-Pilot added “That’s not to say those who attended didn’t have a good time.” Oh please. We, the taxpayers, gave the organizers of this dud…
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Greedy Cities and Speeding Ticket Chicanery
by Kerry Dougherty Hire more traffic cops. At the very least hire Virginia companies to fleece Virginia drivers. That’s the advice I have for Chesapeake and Suffolk, where instead of sending cops with radar guns out to catch speeders, they’ve hired out-of-state vendors with cameras. Worse, according to attorney and former Del. Tim Anderson, who’s…
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Freebees Aren’t Free
by Kerry Dougherty I can’t be the only Virginia Beach taxpayer sick of watching my real estate taxes climb every year while the city council wastes money on pricey gimmicks like “free” Tesla rides for residents and visitors to the city. For two years we’ve picked up the tab for a small fleet of Teslas…
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Are Nonchalant Adults Responsible For School Shootings?
by Kerry Dougherty Finally. For instance, the former assistant principal at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News — Ebony Parker — has been indicted on eight criminal charges in connection with the shooting of first grade teacher Abigail Zwerner in January 2023. This stunning act of senseless violence put Newport News in headlines around the…
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Yes, MSNBC Morons, Virginia IS a Border State.
by Kerry Dougherty Remember back on the night of Super Tuesday when MSNBC’s far-left host Rachel Maddow and former Biden mouthpiece Jen Psaki convulsed in laughter as they reported that the number one issue for Republican voters was the border? “Well Virginia does have a border with West Virginia,” Maddow cackled, sending the panel of…
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Remembering Larry Maddry
by Kerry Dougherty What happens when corporate bean counters drive out all of their experienced workers and replace them with fresh-faced kids right out of school? Bad things. In the case of newspapers, it means hiring reporters who are unfamiliar with the area. It means all of the curmudgeonly grammarians are gone and there’s no…