city in the state of Virginia, United States
USA Today offers bad news to an incumbent president seeking re-election this year. President Joe Biden heads into the election year showing alarming weakness among stalwarts of the Democratic base,…
Sarah Bedford of the Washington Examiner reports on progressive city governments that paid residents for doing nothing in particular. Once the provenance of policy wonks and tech entrepreneurs, universal basic…
Editors at the Washington Free Beacon highlight a useful test case of the policy of removing police from schools. The Alexandria, Va., public school system learned a quick lesson in…
Michael Brendan Dougherty of National Review Online writes that conservatives are wise to fear that leftist activists won’t stop with demands to remove Confederate monuments. For conservatives who pay attention,…
Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon reports on one response to the shooting attack on a Republican congressional baseball practice. Republican Congressman Thomas Massie (R., Ky.) introduced a bill…
Think today’s geopolitical situation is scary? John Lawson reminds Barron’s readers about a piece of history that helps place today’s events in proper perspective. During the darkest days of World…
The local daily informs us that Asheville has a new police chief. After being Alexandria, Virginia’s first female police captain, she will become Asheville’s first female police chief, first woman…
The lyrics of George Harrison’s “Taxman” might drift through your brain as you consider the following brief from the latest Barron’s. You certainly can’t fault Uncle Sam for being anxious…
Need more evidence that the federal government is growing far too large? Consider Andrew Ferguson‘s new TIME story, “Bubble on the Potomac.” Other big cities, of course, have made it…
The N&R officially confirms what we already knew: Greensboro City Manager Rashad Young is leaving for Alexandria, Va. Both the article and op-ed page editor Allen Johnson (unposted) mention the…
If you’ve spent much time with a public choice economist, you’ve likely heard about “concentrated benefits and dispersed costs.” The idea is that many indefensible government programs, subsidies, and tax…
“Atlas Shrugged,” the movie, will be hitting silver screens across the country April 15. So far, it will come no closer to North Carolina than Alexandria and Nashville. There is…