I’m conservative, but the GOP has gerrymandered the Hell out of Virginia. It’s not even arguable, and I don’t blame Northam for threatening to veto any efforts to do it further.
What would you propose as a solution to this? Mine would be a nonpartisan, independent commission on redistricting
Great win today for the Cavs. Hopefully, they can take care of the turnover problem that they have been having for these past few games. Looks like Bernard and Cousin are gonna be a formidable duo for the next few years.
For me, I break it up to the two football subdivisions: FBS and FCS.
For FCS, I'm a fan of JMU, because I originally planned on attending there, but ultimately didn't go in favor of Wise.
For FBS, I'm a bit unsure between UVA and VT. I tend to root for the entire athletic program, instead of just which university has the better team for each individual sport.
Wise needs new leadership from top to bottom. Their AD is a joke with zero experience or connections. She makes terrible hiring decisions. I'm not sure the President puts any emphasis on athletics either. They really need to remove all of their head coaches in basketball and baseball and start from scratch.
Not sure that the AD has been around for even a year, so I'm not frustrated yet. I'm guessing that the emphasis right now for the college is academics and economic development, which is admirable and ultimately should be the forefront of the college.
When I saw that article title, my first question was about methodology. In looking at the article, the methodology is threefold:
(1) Wage Policies
(2) Equal Protection Policies
(3) Right-to-Organize Policies
As it is late, and I have worked a 13-hour day, I won’t write a thesis on it. However, using those metrics, any state with conservative principles is going to score lower and any state with liberal principles is going to score higher. And the correlation is obvious.
I don’t believe this study measures what it’s intended to measure.
After reading the study again, it definitely seemed like it had a pro-union slant toward it. I probably should have went with a study that didn't have nearly as much of a slant (either way).
This thread is mainly to discuss the politics that focus on the local area and Virginia as a state. It can also be used to talk about how the aforementioned areas are in rankings and what can be done to do better.
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Kinda related to Virginia politics, but Amazon has decided to split it's 2nd HQ between Northern Va and NYC. Here's what's in Virginia's deal with Amazon.