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No wonder state/local politics has become nationalized in the Old Dominion.
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After getting dinged by one referendum and with sagging poll numbers, Spanberger is set to get dinged by three more. So, where’s the moderate? by Shaun Kenney The VCU Wilder Center released its post mortem poll results for Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger and the results are not good for Democrats heading into the midterm elections. Not only do []
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Virginia: a True BANANA Republic Now?
Below is a selection of headlines from today’s Virginia Public Access Project state news compilation, which really could be replicated on many days now. What a change in the state’s economic (and media) climate. This will not end well. Warner proposes link of data center tax break to environment State senator opposed to data center tax break []
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Daily article output trendOh, the Joys of Motor Voter
by Kerry Dougherty Whaddya know. That thing that never happens, happened. New Jersey Gov. Mike Sherrill admitted yesterday that a “software error” within the Garden State’s Department of Motor Vehicles, registered 6,600 non-citizens to vote even though they self-attested that they aren’t American citizens. Not to worry, though. “Fewer” than 400 of these foreigners actually []
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Toward a More Perfect Meritocracy
Virginia’s Left and Right agree that merit matters. They disagree about what merit is—and how institutions should recognize it. by Kenrick N.G. Brown The Constitution begins with an aspiration. “We the People,” it declares, seek to form “a more perfect Union.” The wording matters. The Framers did not announce that they had created a perfect []
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Frustrated in Fairfax
by Chap Petersen Last week, my “Sleepless in Stafford” newsletter detailed how County officials had ignored state law in restricting a homeowner’s right to use her own private residence via short term rental. It’s not confined to Stafford County, folks. Two years ago, a Fairfax County resident purchased a 4-acre undeveloped property off Wolf Run Shoals Road in Clifton for []
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Not Corruption, Just Raw Political Power
by Steve Haner I have been charged with defaming a great Virginia company and major employer. One of my regular readers high up in Dominion Energy Virginia, someone often complimentary of my efforts, called yesterday to push back on any implication from me that the company is corrupt or engages in corrupt practices. The basic []
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Mark Warner: Spreading Falsehoods On National TV
by Kerry Dougherty My, my, my. Who would have guessed? Seems ABC’s White House Correspondent, Jonathan Karl is more familiar with Virginia voting laws than Mark Warner, Virginia’s senior senator. You know, the guy who pledged to serve just two terms but is now running for his fourth. Here’s Warner getting schooled by Karl on []
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Virginia Beach Reneges on Vow to Compensate Business Owners
by Kerry Dougherty Just when you thought the midwits running Virginia Beach had reached peak incompetence with this spring’s idiotic resort-area shutdown, this happens: After inviting businesses to file for compensation if they lost revenue during the moronic closure of the resort area in April, the city has denied every single claim. Color me unsurprised. []
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