Editors’ Note: Excerpted from The Center for Public Integrity, September 11, 2019. Deconstruction of the federal government has been not a covert policy of the current administration. No more pertinent independent agency has been kneecapped and prevented from exercising the… Read More ›
Issues
VA 2019 Elections and Tea Leaves
By Frank Blechman Because I work in political campaigns and have been doing so since 1960, I am often asked, after an election, “What do these results mean?” I am then supposed to make some prediction for the future based… Read More ›
Kagan on Gerrymandering
Editors’ Note: History has a way of teaching us that the wisdom of SCOTUS dissents evolve to become the rule of law. Excerpted from HuffPost, October 28, 2019. By Sam Levine In a 5-4 decision this past June, the U.S…. Read More ›
Exxon Faces Climate Fraud Claim in New York
Editors’ Note: Excerpted from BuzzFeed News, October 22, 2019. By Zahra Hirji and Dan Vergano The New York State attorney general is taking ExxonMobil to trial in a historic case, accusing the oil giant of misleading investors about the company’s… Read More ›
Rule #39: There Are No Coincidences
Editors’ Note: Adapted from an article in HuffPost, October 11, 2019 A few weeks ago, in an article (“Blackmail as Modus Operandi”) concerning the administration’s strong-arm tactics in withdrawing auto emissions waivers from states under the Clean Air Act, VoxFairfax, in… Read More ›
Campaigning in Rural Virginia
Editors’ Note: Adapted from an October 15, 2019, article in Blue Virginia. Pages and pages of print media have been devoted to “solving” the difficulties facing rural areas of the Commonwealth. Pollsters and pundits have characterized rural America as forlorn and… Read More ›
Mary Draper Ingles: A Personal Remembrance
Editors’ Note: This is the second in the VoxFairfax series honoring the Virginia women in history memorialized by their statues in Richmond. The author, Nancy Alexander Simmons, is a descendant of Mary Draper Ingles. By Nancy Alexander Simmons It was… Read More ›
The Dignity of Labor
An online search of the term “hard work” will deliver a large number of discussions of the term “dignity of labor” as a Christian value or ethic, and that seems well in accord with the view of many in our… Read More ›
Trumpenkrieg 2.0
Editors’ Note: A version of this article was previously published by VoxFairfax one year ago. Many events have transpired in the interim to warrant another look at the political dynamics driving this administration. Little has changed except the intensity of the… Read More ›