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Back in 2017, Amazon announced a big contest. The goal was to see which local government would throw the most tax incentives at them in exchange for the grand prize, the company putting their “second headquarters” in that community.
After more than a year of nonsense, the ultimate winner was declared: National Landing, Virginia.
If you drive along I-81, the “spine” of Virginia, it’s hard to miss the billboards advertising various cavern attractions. I’ve seen them many times over the decades that I’ve been up and down that road, but never stopped to visit.
A few weeks ago, I joined a small group of photographers in Lexington, Virginia for a weekend at the Balloons Over Rockbridge festival. We were up at dawn on Saturday and Sunday to watch the crews set up and launch their classic hot air craft.
For the past ten years, we in this area have heard stories and seen photos of a collection of huge concrete presidential busts sitting in a field near Williamsburg. Unfortunately, this Virginia oddity is usually not open to the public, locked away on private land.
Jay Mathews1 really, really, really wants Virginia to have lots of charter schools. REALLY!
As always when he writes on this topic, Mathews doesn’t explain how transferring tax money to charters will improve public schools. His emphasis in these waste-of-newsprint Washington Post columns is always on the politics of the issue, with little to nothing about the educational value.
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