Jefferson Policy Journal

09/04/2025

‘Green’ Energy Mandates, Profit Demands Drive Dominion Price Hikes, Not Data Centers. Full Story at Link Below. https://www.thomasjeffersoninst.org/green-energy-mandates-profit-demands-drive-dominion-price-hikes-not-data-centers/

26/03/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookWielding irony like a razor-sharp butcher’s knife, Governor Glenn Youngkin (R) has proposed a series of amendments on bills intended to promote renewable energy that basically reverse the impact and do just the opposite....

21/03/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookLast night, as promised repeatedly during the campaign, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to take all necessary steps to facilitate the closure of the Department o...

18/03/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookDespite a shortened 2025 General Assembly session due to a water plant failure in Richmond, Legislators still managed to introduce and debate almost 2,500 bills — an impressive workload by any measure.  In the end, howe...

18/03/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookWriting in the blog Bacon’s Rebellion, Arlington parent and self-described “Obama Democrat” Todd Truitt has come out swinging against a Virginia budget amendment to spend $12 million extra “to improve student perfo...

09/03/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookAfter failing to pass legislation last year that would have made breakfast and lunch free for all public school students regardless of income (at a staggering cost of $201.5 million), Senator Danika Roem (D-Manassas) pared...

21/02/2025

Doubling Down on Virginia's Terrible Energy Policies. The Questions Not Asked: What Does This Cost? Will Electricity be More Reliable?

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookThe Questions Not Asked: What Does This Cost? Will Electricity be More Reliable? The Virginia General Assembly has approved a long list of bills to double down on its previous commitment to ending the use of hydrocarbon fu...

10/02/2025

Was The Fatal Flaw For This Sensible Tax Bill Simply the Support From Glenn Youngkin?

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookVirginia will remain out of step with the rest of the United States on how it taxes service-providing businesses after General Assembly Democrats voted in lockstep to once again kill a logical income tax reform. There was....

04/02/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookThe 2024 General Assembly ended with a promise from its majority Democrats to review and perhaps revise the 2020 Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), which mandates the end of hydrocarbon electricity. The revisions are now p...

04/02/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookVirginia students continued to struggle to meet national proficiency standards based on results in the recently released 2024 data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Reading scores remained stagna...

21/01/2025

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookIt was not the most reported part of Governor Glenn Youngkin’s State of the Commonwealth Address on January 6, but for the first time in four years the Republican took direct aim at the renewable energy mandates his pred...

06/12/2024

Inspection Without Impact: Why Virginia Should End Mandatory Car Inspections. Read the Full Story at the Link Below.

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookVirginia’s mandatory vehicle safety inspection program is less than a decade away from its centennial anniversary. Established in 1932, Virginia’s inspection program is the oldest continuous program in the country. I...

04/12/2024

Is Virginia ready for the changes coming with the Trump Administration? Our case for your support on Giving Tuesday!

Email from Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Our case for your support... Dear Friend of TJI, Historic and needed change is coming! In less than 50 days, Donald Trump will raise his

03/12/2024

Email from Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy Our case for your support... Dear Friend of TJI, Historic and needed change is coming! In less than 50 days, Donald Trump will raise his

03/12/2024

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookAlexis de Tocqueville never met Nancy Slater White, but he would have liked her. Tocqueville, of course, is the observational author whose 1835 book, Democracy in America, is considered by many to be a seminal work in defi...

03/12/2024

While the U.S. Department of Education is only a small fraction of total education spending – accounting for less than 10 percent of education spending in the United States (9 percent in Virginia) – it has a huge impact on how states and localities spend their own money on schools, on how teache...

03/12/2024

Share this Story on Facebook, X, Text, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, or OutlookRegulations, while usually well-intentioned, are often a drag on economic growth. They increase costs for businesses, stifle innovation, and can create barriers to entry for new entrepreneurs. With a runaway administrative...