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Here are today’s columns:
Design by Fire Truck
Why can’t developers today create walkable communities like the small towns of the 1920s? Go ask your fire marshal.
by James A. Bacon
Spirit of History
The family stories we all share add up to the real history of our communities. It took 83-year-old Jac Walker of Franconia to show us how.
by Doug Koelemay
Neighborhood Values
If you want to promote family values, dispense with cultural wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage and focus on creating supportive dooryards and neighborhoods.
by EM Risse
Road Map
There is no need for legislative gridlock in Virginia. Two new publications outline priorities and detail solutions that a consensus can build around.
by Michael Thompson
Writing Rightly
I am driven to write — partly as a form of self expression, but mostly in defense of values threatened by secular humanists and totalitarian jihadists.
by James Atticus Bowden
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
GOP leaders want to paper over philosophical divides in pursuit of power. But they miss the fact that electoral victories are achieved only through visionary policies and strong leadership.
by Phil Rodokanakis
Nice & Curious Questions
Virginia’s Alma Maters: Halls of Public Ivy in the Old Dominion
by Edwin S. Clay III and Patricia Bangs
