Editors’ Note: See the following previous VoxFairfax articles on redistricting in Virginia: https://voxfairfax.com/2018/08/19/one-person-one-vote-in-congressional-elections/; https://voxfairfax.com/2019/07/08/virginias-path-to-one-person-one-vote-faces-dangers/; and https://voxfairfax.com/2019/04/22/landmark-redistricting-reform-passed-in-virginia/. On March 6, the Virginia House of Delegates, on a vote of 54-46, agreed to a Senate bill placing a constitutional referendum on the… Read More ›
Issues
Charity Scams Finally Scuttled?–Maybe
In the second month of VoxFairfax’s existence in April of 2018, we reported on a joint investigation by the Virginia and New York Attorneys General into the activities of several Falls Church veterans’ organizations involving questionable fundraising activities and possible… Read More ›
Gok’s Uncertainty Principle
Editors’ Note: Reporting based upon an article in The New York Times, March 2, 2020. For over three years now, or perhaps even longer, a number of Trump critics and observers have shared a sense of dismay that the President… Read More ›
Milken: Money Corrupts Absolutely
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, February 18, 2020. By James B. Stewart By pardoning Michael R. Milken, a potent symbol of the “greed is good” 1980s and arguably the most significant white-collar criminal of his generation, President… Read More ›
On the Eve of Super Tuesday . . .
Author’s Note: This column was written before Super Tuesday. If you are reading it on March 4 or later, you know far more than I do. By Frank Blechman One of the disadvantages I have as a political observer is that… Read More ›
Secession Fever Epidemic
Editors’ Note: Reprinted from the Washington Times, February 19, 2020. VoxFairfax has reported previously on jurisdictions wishing to secede, including a county in Virginia invited to become part of West Virginia (see VEXIT article in https://voxfairfax.com/2020/02/10/brief-cases-5/; and parts of Oregon… Read More ›
Homer Plessy, Passed March 1, 1925
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The New York Times, February 3, 2020. Plessy v. Ferguson was a landmark 1896 U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation under the “separate but equal” doctrine. By Glenn Rifkin When Homer Plessy… Read More ›
DOD to End Unions?
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from Government Executive, February 20, 2020. No corner of the government is exempt from the anti-labor attitude of the administration. By Erich Wagner The White House on Thursday formally published a controversial document that gives Defense Secretary… Read More ›
Westward Ho!
Has the Commonwealth initiated yet another trend? USA Today reports a grass-roots movement in Oregon to have several counties secede from the state to join with Idaho as a new entity called Greater Idaho. The move is spurred by a… Read More ›