Days before leaving office, Attorney General Mark Herring has filed a complaint against the Town of Windsor in Isle of Wight County, charging the police department with a pattern of unlawful racial discrimination.
All in Bacon's Rebellion
Good for Kamras
“We are not going to close schools again,” Kamras tweeted Wednesday, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “Our students need us to stay open — perhaps now more than ever.”
Fact Checking Northam’s VMI Speech
In his recent speech to the Virginia Military Institute, Governor Ralph Northam had a lot to say about traditions and practices at the military academy when he attended in the 1970s.
Things Fall Apart: Menchville High School Edition
Last week 17-year-old Justice Dunham was shot to death during an altercation in the parking lot outside Menchville High School in Newport News.
UVa’s Thought Police Have Taken Control
The University of Virginia is becoming a modern-day reeducation camp where the views of faculty and staff must conform to the dictates of Leftist ideology regarding social justice issues.
The Woke Never Rest: Public Health Edition
The forces of Wokeness are like a zombie horde. They keep coming, and coming… and coming.
Youngkin to Withdraw From RGGI, End Carbon Tax
Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin told a business audience Wednesday afternoon that he intends to withdraw Virginia from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. His decision came two days after Dominion Energy Virginia filed a petition to increase the RGGI tax on its bills by 83% next year.
Press Misinformation on Critical Race Theory in Schools Fuels the Fight
Americans are at one another’s throats over critical race theory in schools.
Brace Yourself for Omicron… and Omicron Hysteria
The Omicron variant of the COVID-19 virus has set foot (perhaps I should say set its little viral spikes) in California, and it is only a matter of days (perhaps hours) before it arrives in Virginia. How worried should we be?
More Proof: Virginia Schools’ COVID Policies Were a Disaster
Here is more proof, as if it were needed, that Virginia’s public school system suffered one of the greatest COVID-induced collapses in standardized test scores of the 50 states.
A Mathematical Impossibility
Someone needs to teach Washington Post reporters basic arithmetic.
How to Recruit the Best Charter Schools for Poor and Minority Kids
Virginia school districts desperately need to find ways to improve public education for poor minority children.
Post-COVID Public School Enrollment: Still Down by 45,000
The headcount in Virginia’s public schools has leveled off in the 2021-22 school year after dropping by 45,000 students during the height of the COVID-19 epidemic last year.
“Working People” Resist
It’s not rich versus poor, or even Black versus White. It’s between those who perceive themselves as “working people” and those who don’t.
What Dominion is Hiding in its Wind Application
When an applicant at the State Corporation Commission claims certain information is proprietary, or extraordinarily sensitive, a reader not privy to the full document can at least get an idea what is missing.
How the WaPo’s Epic Fail on Schools Helped Elect Youngkin
Parents of school children shifted decisively from McAuliffe to Youngkin during the campaign. But there’s a big piece of the story that everyone is missing: how conservative media established the narrative of “critical race theory” and made it a top-tier issue in the election.
Terry McAuliffe as Governor Aggressively Denied Charter Schools to Poor Minority Children
Terry McAuliffe demonstrated as governor that he will fight public charter schools.
He will oppose them regardless of the lifelong costs to the students of some truly pitiful Virginia public schools.
McAuliffe Lets the Cat out of the Bag
“A parent has a fundamental right to make decisions.” concerning the upbringing, education, and care of the parent’s child.”
Shootings Are Spiking? Let’s Blame COVID!
VCU Medical trauma surgeon Michael Aboutanos said that VCU is experiencing a 121% increase in gunshot-wound victims from across the metro Richmond area. “This is a serious issue,” he said, “One we cannot ignore.”