http://www.richmondbizsense.com Richmond's Homepage For Business News Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:46:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/12/24/guest-opinion-a-free-market-enthusiast-for-public-radio/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/12/24/guest-opinion-a-free-market-enthusiast-for-public-radio/#comments Fri, 24 Dec 2010 12:53:41 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=24578 He regularly battles against government support for pet projects, but in this week’s Guest Opinion, local attorney Tom Bowden is going to bat for state-funded public broadcasting. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/12/24/guest-opinion-a-free-market-enthusiast-for-public-radio/feed/ 13 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/11/19/guest-opinion-get-the-government-out-of-the-booze-biz/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/11/19/guest-opinion-get-the-government-out-of-the-booze-biz/#comments Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:19:31 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=23593 To anyone who seriously thinks that the state should stay in the liquor business, ask yourself: How did we get into it in the first place? ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/11/19/guest-opinion-get-the-government-out-of-the-booze-biz/feed/ 6 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/10/22/guest-opinion-fizzy-math/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/10/22/guest-opinion-fizzy-math/#comments Fri, 22 Oct 2010 11:33:58 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=22764 In this week’s Guest Opinion, RBS’s free market fan would rather New York not tell food stamp users that they can’t use public funds on soda, even if it had a net positive benefit to them and the taxpayers. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/10/22/guest-opinion-fizzy-math/feed/ 24 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/09/24/guest-opinion-regulation-d-changes-have-odd-definiation-of-wealthy/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/09/24/guest-opinion-regulation-d-changes-have-odd-definiation-of-wealthy/#comments Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:46:08 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=21990 Startups and small companies that want to sell shares have to follow strict federal laws called Regulation D that restrict who can invest. This week local attorney Tom Bowden examines some changes in the law. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/09/24/guest-opinion-regulation-d-changes-have-odd-definiation-of-wealthy/feed/ 4 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/08/27/guest-opinion-the-problem-with-tax-and-spend-theory/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/08/27/guest-opinion-the-problem-with-tax-and-spend-theory/#comments Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:25:35 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=21182 What happens when the government buys things it doesn’t really need with money it doesn’t really have. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/08/27/guest-opinion-the-problem-with-tax-and-spend-theory/feed/ 29 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/07/23/guest-opinion-ride-with-me-through-biketopia/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/07/23/guest-opinion-ride-with-me-through-biketopia/#comments Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:02:50 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=20233 In this week’s Guest Opinion, local lawyer Tom Bowden daydreams about how Richmond could transform itself into a biking metropolis]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/07/23/guest-opinion-ride-with-me-through-biketopia/feed/ 14 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/06/25/guest-opinion-use-the-oil-spill-to-examine-the-issues/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/06/25/guest-opinion-use-the-oil-spill-to-examine-the-issues/#comments Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:06:34 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=19440 What if there is no real consensus that CO2 causes warming, or what if the consensus is based on bad data, unsound science, or both? Who will make the case for sanity and the scientific method? ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/06/25/guest-opinion-use-the-oil-spill-to-examine-the-issues/feed/ 19 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/05/14/guest-opinion-lies-damned-lies-and-job-statistics/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/05/14/guest-opinion-lies-damned-lies-and-job-statistics/#comments Fri, 14 May 2010 11:00:55 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=18283 Is Northrop Grumman’s move to Virginia as monumental as the headlines lead us to believe? This week local attorney Tom Bowden writes that it's probably not, and that the entire justification for economic development is fishy. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/05/14/guest-opinion-lies-damned-lies-and-job-statistics/feed/ 11 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/02/guest-opinion-what-richmond-has-that-google-wants/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/02/guest-opinion-what-richmond-has-that-google-wants/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:36:35 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16993 By now everyone knows that Google plans to build an experimental gigabit network for some lucky community and that Richmond has thrown its hat in the ring. But before we stoop to silly stunts like renaming the city (e.g. Google, Kansas, the city formally known as Topeka), let's think about the deeper benefits. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/04/02/guest-opinion-what-richmond-has-that-google-wants/feed/ 4 http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/05/guest-opinion-for-whom-the-bell-tolls/ http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/05/guest-opinion-for-whom-the-bell-tolls/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 12:16:15 +0000 Thomas Bowden http://www.richmondbizsense.com/?p=16176 The new governor wants to create 29,000 jobs. And Congress may pass a new jobs bill. In this week’s Guest Opinion, local attorney Tom Bowden wonders if how that is supposed to work. ]]> http://www.richmondbizsense.com/2010/03/05/guest-opinion-for-whom-the-bell-tolls/feed/ 5