When I was in school – way back in the previous century – we got a day off on February 22nd to celebrate George Washington’s birthday, one of the oldest federal holidays.
Somewhere around 1970 it was moved to the third Monday in February and not long after that people began calling the celebration “Presidents’ Day”.
Virginia is planning to spend more than $400 million dollars in the next couple of years on “high-intensity tutoring” for students in K12.
The allocations to local districts is, of course, all about fixing “learning loss” from the pandemic.
Except there’s no such thing.
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.