Sorensen Institute launches new leaders program

The Sorensen Institute today unveiled a new program designed to instruct and prepare Virginians who wish to continue their service to the Commonwealth. The new Emerging Leaders Program was developed in partnership between the governor’s office and the Sorensen Institute during the spring of 2012. The pilot program will train public policy and political leaders…

Karen Kwiatkowski: A happy marriage between democratic socialism and corporate capitalism

Complaints are rampant about the draft 2012 federal Farm Bill.  Farm subsidy recipients are enraged about proposed cuts, even as the same benefits would flow to them through direct payments and insurance offsets.  Sustainable small farm and local food efforts complain that they are getting short shrift, and corporate agriculture is busily lobbying for its…

JMU evens series with Mason

Sophomore Conner Brown (Richmond, Va./Godwin) had three hits with two triples and James Madison’s freshman tandem of Michael Howerton (Chesterfield, Va./Matoaca) and Aaron Hoover (Centreville, Va./Westfield) combined to limit George Mason to one earned run in a 5-2 win in the second game of a Colonial Athletic Association baseball series on Saturday night at Eagle…