Kaine’s Outta Here
Bart Hinkle
July 11, 2008 8:31 AM

Del. Bill Janis, please call your office.

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BANANAS in Loudoun
Bart Hinkle
July 07, 2008 9:25 AM

There’s NIMBY (not in my back yard) and then there’s BANANA (build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything). Loudoun residents seem to have migrated from the former to the latter:

“Everywhere we pick to put a school or a substation or a firehouse or whatever, we run into resistance. It’s very frustrating,“ said Board of Supervisors member James Burton (I-Blue Ridge), . . .

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On the Road (V)
Bart Hinkle
June 16, 2008 1:13 PM

The fifth installment of our ongoing transportation series is here.

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Sex Selection
Bart Hinkle
June 16, 2008 10:03 AM

More evidence that single-gender education is coming back:

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Sterlize, or execute?
Todd Culbertson
June 11, 2008 10:39 AM

Has society come along way since the eugenics movement?

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A Footnote
Bart Hinkle
May 29, 2008 11:19 AM

Today’s lead editorial suggests that

The commonwealth also might want to consider emulating Florida’s McKay Scholarships for Students With Disabilities program, which gives parents unhappy with the public school system’s services for their special-needs children a chance to transfer their children to private schools. The more options parents have, the happier they are likely to be.

A representative from the state Department of Education calls our attention to. . . .

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The Art of Political Rhetoric
Bart Hinkle
May 29, 2008 9:46 AM

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Tim Kaine always brings his A-game. Yesterday, for instance, he challenged state Republicans to help solve the state transportation problem:

Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, speaking at a transportation conference yesterday at the Capital One complex in suburban Goochland County, challenged House Republicans to be “problem-solvers,“ not “problem-avoiders” when lawmakers return June 23.

Kaine urged 150 business leaders to pressure legislators to make new investments in road and rail. Kaine also talked up his nearly $1 billion package in new taxes and fees. “No plan is not a plan,“ the Democrat said.

Of course, that argument goes both ways, doesn’t it? Republicans just as easily could say . . . .

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On the Road (IV)
Bart Hinkle
May 27, 2008 8:11 AM

The fourth installment of our transportation series is here.

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On the Road (III)
Bart Hinkle
May 27, 2008 8:10 AM

The third piece in our transportation series is here.

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On the Road (II)
Bart Hinkle
May 27, 2008 8:09 AM

Here is the second piece in the series.

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