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Guest Opinion: Four baby steps for Virginia’s economy
In January, the General Assembly will take up consideration of Virginia’s 2010-12 biennial budget. According to guesstimates, balancing that budget will require closing a $3.5 billion gap between expenditures and revenues. In this week’s
Read More »Guest Opinion: Why health care reform isn’t welcome (and why that’s okay)
There are at least three reasons why Americans are skeptical of health care reform, writes Fletcher Mangum in this week’s Guest Opinion
Read More »Guest Opinion: welcome back Carter
In the Greater Richmond area specifically, manufacturing accounted for 5.9 percent of total employment and paid wages that were 26 percent above average. If an uncompetitive increase in energy prices forced a major
Read More »1 Step Forward, 2.2 Steps Back
Before we gleefully unleash ourselves to the business of completely realigning the U.S. economy around green energy, due diligence requires that we ask a few small questions first. Such as, if we do
Read More »Op/Ed Mortgaging Our Children’s Future
The rational response when someone says, “sign this, no need to read it, just sign it, SIGN IT NOW,” is to drop the pen, slowly back away, and then run. It’s unfortunate that the
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