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Monthly Archives: February 2015
Job Growth in Virginia Wasn’t Stellar Last Year.
Virginia gained only 12,900 jobs in 2014, or a 0.3 percent increase from the previous year. That increase was the worst year-over-year performance the state has had since 2010, when it shrunk by 4,800 jobs in the aftermath of the … Continue reading
The Self-Inflicted Infrastructure “Crisis”
We continually hear about an “infrastructure crisis” in the United States, a malady from which Virginia has not been spared. Talk of pot-holed streets, tottering bridges and crumbling highways invariably moves to talk about the need to spend more on infrastructure, which … Continue reading
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Virginia House Bills Put Roads Over Rails
(Editor’s note: This article from Watchdog.org’s Virginia Bureau on February 17th is reprinted because the idea that legislation needs to be passed to make sure the transportation funding’s top priority is congestion relief speaks volumes about what is wrong with … Continue reading
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More EPA Regulation of Ammonia?
In late January six environmental groups filed a complaint in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia claiming that EPA violated their rights by not responding to a 2011 petition to regulate ammonia as a pollutant under the Clean Air … Continue reading
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Opposing Renewable Fuel Standards
They say politics makes strange bedfellows. In a perfect example, U.S. Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are cosponsoring the “Corn Ethanol Mandate Elimination Act,” to abolish the corn ethanol Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), which requires that increasing … Continue reading
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