Virginia Group

One of the many times of the year when annual “best of” lists come out. Any time start seeing these in the middle of the summer I am happy because there is no real news out there. Anyhoo, note that Loudoun County had 58% job growth last year. I figure 10 years [...]

OK…A little healthy, or unhealthy, mix of entertainment and political theory. Bear with me. Believe it or not, I’ve put a lot of thought lately (meaning about the last 4 years or so) into how important it is for us to think deeply about why we believe what we believe, and why seeing different perspectives [...]

The VA supreme court deemed unconstitutional the new taxes being levied by the Northern Virginia Transportation Alliance. This is a little awkward given that these taxes had already begun to be collected two months ago. Justice Goodwyn wrote the majority opinion: “If payment of the regional taxes and fees is to be required by [...]

I’ve heard an interesting statistic TWICE over the last several months (one from a public official, and one from a lobbyist/academician): That when you stack up Virginia with all of the other States from a “tax burden” standpoint, that Virginia is 47th out of 50.  This means that there are only 3 states that are more [...]

Since the Loudoun Blog took it upon itself to insert itself into the Sheriff’s race last year, I felt it important to comment on the concept of the Sheriff’s office being all but replaced by a police force reporting to the board. York announced that he was submitting the idea to be studied by [...]