The challenge is that we don’t know some of the things we need to know to calculate the true trade-offs on data centers.
Tommy Turner
Tommy Turner of Christiansburg is a researcher whose analysis of institutional governance and Virginia policy has appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Virginian-Pilot, Roanoke Times, and Virginia Mercury.
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Researcher: Buckingham will host more of this power line than any county in Virginia, and it has the least say about it
Campbell County and Culpeper County have some say in the Valley Link project because they have to approve substations. Buckingham has nothing to approve or disapprove.
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Turner: The bill came due
Part two of two: Radford was warned in 2017 that it could not go on. The state arrived nine years later to say the same thing.
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Turner: What the foundry took from Radford
Part one of two: How a single factory quietly became the thing holding up a small Virginia city’s budget.
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Researcher: Spanberger visited Southwest Virginia. The way she visited tells the region what she thinks of it.
The governor needs to hold more events in Southwest Virginia.
