Tag: Kerry Dougherty
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A Tale Of Two Bridge Projects
by Kerry Dougherty Some would say it’s not fair to compare the rapid repairs to a hurricane-damaged bridge in Florida to the desultory progress of the Laskin Road bridge project in Virginia Beach. I don’t care. For those of us getting our cars realigned every few months and learning to zigzag as we attempt to…
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Motoring Mariners
by Kerry Dougherty I was surprised when my granddaughter excitedly phoned last night to tell me that due to flooding, school was cancelled today. I was reminded of the time area schools closed prematurely for snow and not a flake fell from the sky. But then I checked the forecast: High tide today could be…
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Media Gins up Anemic School Walkouts
by Kerry Dougherty You could almost hear the local media panting Tuesday morning. There were rumors that some Virginia high school students were going to walk out of school to protest the new parental rights policies of the Youngkin administration. You know, the Department of Education regulations announced earlier this month that support the principle…
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Why Local Leaders Won’t Say The G Word
by Kerry Dougherty If you want to understand what’s going on with the surge in violent crime in Tidewater, you really need to watch the movie “Jaws.” Remember how the mayor of Amity wanted to keep the beaches open even after he knew that a massive, man-eating Great White shark was feeding in local waters?…
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Parents’ Rights Are On The Virginia Ballot. Again.
by Kerry Dougherty Good news. Virginia’s Democrats have taken the bait. So far at least four liberal school districts in the commonwealth have declared that they will defy Virginia’s Department of Education model policies on parental rights that were unveiled late last week. You know, policies that contain “radical” ideas such as these: “Parents have…
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Youngkin on Fire
by Kerry Dougherty Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin is a quick study. In eight short months he learned that there is no pleasing leftists. No matter how cordial you are, no matter how many times you extend your hand, the far left will slap you away if there’s an R after your name. Despite the amiable…
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Remember When News Outlets Engaged in Fact-Checking?
by Kerry Dougherty Dang it. The BYU women’s volleyball story had everything the corporate media salivates over: A conservative Christian school and an alleged racial slur against an African-American female athlete. Pity that like so many other stories that feed the narrative that America is just a nanosecond away from Jim Crow and that conservative…
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Stop Comparing January 6th To September 11th
by Kerry Dougherty Stop. Just stop. Stop with the hyperbole. Stop exaggerating. Stop minimizing horror in a craven pursuit of politics. It happens all the time. For example, I’ve always cringed whenever I hear comparisons between Hitler and any contemporary political figure. There was only one Adolph Hitler. He was vile and he killed six…
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Elections Matter
by Kerry Dougherty There are lots of one-issue voters out there. Until the COVID pandemic I wasn’t one of them. This year and for the rest of my life I will vote against any candidate who supported unconstitutional lockdowns, school closures, curfews and vaccine mandates. If I were a Democrat. I’d be horrified that the…
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Norfolk Has a Crime Problem
by Kerry Dougherty It was a fabulous moment in Norfolk. On Friday night Old Dominion University clinched ANOTHER football victory over Virginia Tech, this one in the last minute of play. When the final whistle blew the ecstatic fans poured out of the stands and onto the field. One of the TV commentators gazed at…
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The Kids Are Not All Right
by Kerry Dougherty Remember when they told us students were “resilient”? Remember when they said kids didn’t need to see faces to learn? How about when they claimed remote learning was a fine substitute for in-person classes? Remember when they said those who wanted schools open were selfish, just wanted babysitters for their kids, or…
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City of Norfolk Allowed Its Animal Shelter Manager to Work Remotely. From Florida.
by Kerry Dougherty To those who argue that remote work is lovely and only Luddites believe people should actually show up in their workplace every day, I offer THIS as an extreme example of what can happen. The Virginian-Pilot reports that earlier this year some bonehead in the city of Norfolk gave the manager of…
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Will Virginia Be Ruled from Sacramento?
by Kerry Dougherty Turns out former Gov. Ralph Northam is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only do Virginia’s school children continue to suffer academically because of Northam’s hasty, hysterical and prolonged school closures, but most of us were shocked this week to learn that California’s boneheaded new rules regarding a draconian move to…
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Virginia Beach, Where Nothing Changes
by Kerry Dougherty I told you the cronies were back in charge in Virginia Beach. On August 22 four city officials including Councilmen Aaron Rouse and Linwood Branch — the latter was one of the original “Three Amigos” who were, ah, mighty friendly with local developers decades ago — flew to New York City for…
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Taking Food From Needy Children to Advance the Trans Agenda
by Kerry Dougherty This ought to be the number one campaign issue in the U.S. right now: the Biden administration’s radical plan to starve the National School Lunch program unless states adopt far-left gender identity rules for schools that include allowing biological boys to compete in girls’ sports. This outrageous federal blackmail leaves states struggling…