How long does it take for an electric vehicle (EV) to have a smaller carbon footprint than a gasoline-powered vehicle? As with most complex issues, the answer is: It depends. Currently, the energy to produce the battery causes the average initial EV carbon footprint to be twice that of a gasoline vehicle. (The actual difference […]
Variations in the earth’s orbit have caused previous climate shifts, but don’t explain what’s happening now. The earth’s climate has undergone numerous changes over the millennia, ranging from ice ages to much warmer spells. Excluding impacts from massive meteors or volcanoes, the climate has switched between hot and cold on a regular basis. A century […]
When you have an LLC within an LLC moving within weeks and not months on a prime piece of property? There ought to be questions. Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can […]
Once envisioned for the old Maury School, could the University of Mary Washington be the perfect partner for a world-class presidential library? Editor’s Note: This column by Shaun Kenney appeared in June, while the Fredericksburg Advance was operating under a different name. With spring fully upon us, and the future of the Renwick building again […]
This is the time of year where Easter Sunday becomes the center for many. Here’s what it means to me. by SHAUN KENNEYColumnist (and Penitent Easter Catholic) My Lenten traditions start with a tiny little book I keep above the fireplace consisting of a hardback edition of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Lenten Reflections. These reflections begin right […]
Sorry, but no one has the unmitigated right to my vote. Earn it. If you are indeed a Republican, there is no more certain way to make a Democratic friend by announcing your dislike of Donald J. Trump. Of course, the quickest way to lose that friend is to mention that the reason you do […]
The GOP nomination contest is practically wrapped up and predictably boring. So let’s talk about something more interesting — peas.
Spotsylvania’s public schools need a superintendent the conservative-led Board of Supervisors like and trust. Will they keep him around? Or pay the exorbitant severance fee?
Let’s ask this dead horse about sales tax hikes on the working poor while giving $1.5 billion to wealthy developers in Potomac Yard. House and Senate Democrats have already labeled Governor Younkin’s budget as tantamount to a slap in the face. Yet the Governor’s Budget is meeting an increasingly loud crescendo from fiscal conservatives who […]
Why Mary Isn’t Sticking the Landing
Bear with me, but I have a terrible knot in the back of my right shoulder that neither heat nor medicine nor water can seem to unlock. Political differences can seem that way as well. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, the problem just seems intractable — sometimes because the players want to make […]