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Media norms and practices (even from serious professionals seeking, in their own way, to achieve excellence) are clearly part of the reason ‘why’ Donald Trump occupies the White House. And, such norms are also clearly part of why it has been so hard to achieve paths to address (mitigation and adaptation) Global Warming over past […]

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Human beings sometimes have a hard time celebrating progress. Somewhat as an analogy to loss aversion, what didn’t occur that we wanted or expected can have far greater prominence to us than the partial desires which were met.  And, we (often unconsciously) can move the goal posts such that progress have led popping champagne bottles just […]

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Shallow language has, for too long, hindered our understanding of and valuing of core institutions and capacities. “Bureaucracy” and “bureaucrats” are viewed negatively by most even though these institutions and people, with failures and inadequacies to be acknowledged and reformed, do work that enables society to function. In the past few years, “Deep State” has […]

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I appreciate, seriously, the efforts to develop, draw attention to, pass the sort of legislation that required in our times.  Within my space, two bills have represented two overlapping visions and paths for moving Virginia toward a cleaner, climate-sensible future: the Virginia Green New Deal (GND-VA) and the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA).

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The Fairfax County Public School (FCPS) Facilities Planning Advisory Council (FPAC) focused on transportation issues in its 4 February meeting and, within that, discussed some issues related to an Electric School Bus (ESB) program.

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The Old Dominion’s political system and culture is often referred to as The Virginia Way which is nostalgically promoted as one “of honor, gentility and democracy”. Just like “MAGA” glosses over (ignores or even embraces) ugly parts of American history,  In reality, this ideology bred a corrupt political class, a runaway electricity company, a university […]

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