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Bacon’s Rebellion
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by the Jefferson Council Every incoming student in UVA’s College of Arts Sciences is required to take four two-credit “Engagements” courses their first year — eight credits total, out of roughly 30 a first-year typically completes. It isn’t optional. It’s a graduation requirement, built into the College Curriculum that replaced UVA’s older general education []
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Virginia Beach school director used taxpayer resources to recruit volunteers for Democrat congressional candidate Elaine Luria. by Victoria Manning On June 23, Melissa Disher, Director of the First Colonial High School (FCHS) Legal Studies Academy in Virginia Beach, sent out a notification to parents. She called it a volunteer opportunity for a “Campaign Fellows Program.” []
by Kerry Dougherty No offense to ordinary, decent schizophrenics, but Virginia Democrats appear to be suffering from this or a similar mental disorder. And they’re off their meds. Examples abound, but here’s just one: The left-wing radicals who once were tree-huggers, have morphed into lovers of solar panels. As far as these loons are concerned, []
By James C. Sherlock Nursing home chains headquartered in New Jersey, New York, and Atlanta have, in the last decade, plagued Virginia with their operations here to a degree that should have proven intolerable to the Governor and the General Assembly. New Jersey-based Medical Facilities of America (MFA) is both the largest and the worst-performing []
by Derrick A. Max Key Takeaways: Key Quote: “Virginia’s No. 3 ranking is a credit to the Commonwealth’s inherited strengths, not a blank check for Richmond to tax more, mandate more, and make it harder to do business here.” Virginia’s climb in CNBC’s newest “Top States for Business” ranking — moving from No. 4 back to []
by Chris Saxman Too often, conversations about data centers are presented as an either-or: tech companies versus local communities, or economic growth versus environmental protection. That is the wrong debate. The real challenge is whether communities, businesses, utilities, investors and public leaders can work together to support the infrastructure a growing digital economy requires while []
by Jason Miyares Statement on Governor Spanberger’s Marijuana Budget Debacle I warned that rushing marijuana commercialization through Virginia would lead to reckless governing. This week, that warning came true in the worst possible way. Governor Abigail Spanberger and the far-left majority in the General Assembly jammed their marijuana retail scheme into the state budget instead []
by Rich Tucker Virginia’s governing Democrats made it a crime to buy, sell, manufacture, or swap so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold more than 15 rounds of ammunition. The law’s July 1 enactment, however, sits in a legal limbo as a wave of lawsuits moves through various courts. Plaintiffs in four state jurisdictions []
by Dick Hall-Sizemore The Colorado-based company, Stack Infrastructure (Stack), has announced that it will move forward with its plans to build a giant data center complex in Pittsylvania County. As was reported earlier in Bacon’s Rebellion, the company had made its decision to locate in Virginia contingent on the state continuing its exemption of computer []
