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Editorial: What the candidates for governor aren't saying

We are here today to point out what they’re not saying. This week, two of the five Democratic candidates announced their plans on two subjects near and dear to our hearts: Jennifer Carroll Foy announced her broadband plan and Jennifer McClellan announced her school plan — which also included some portions on broadband because many of these issues are interconnected. Earlier, former Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who is attempting a comeback, laid out his own schools plan. Now, as Paul Harvey liked to say, here’s the rest of the story. Everybody is for rural broadband, so nobody gets points just for that. We’re also disinclined to pay much attention to any dollar figures that candidates throw around unless they have some specific funding mechanism behind them. It’s easy to propose big numbers in a vacuum; it’s another to craft a balanced budget that includes all those priorities. Some things, though, do matter, so let’s look at them.

Editorial: House Democratic leaders now own every crumbling school in Virginia

And so it’s come to this: House Democrats care so little about the poorest localities in the state that they won’t even vote on two measures intended to fix up

Editorial: Why Fairfax County Del. Mark Sickles' comment about Lee County is so offensive

Editorial: House Democrats turn their backs on rural Virginia

We choose our words carefully, so when we use a strong one, we mean it. Today we shall use a strong one. Perhaps several strong ones.

Editorial: Will we see a new type of Republican emerge?

After the planet Uranus was discovered in 1781, astronomers realized that its orbit could only be explained if there was another, yet unseen, planet somewhere beyond it. Based on that, the great French mathematician Urbain Le Verrier publicly predicted the existence — and location — of the planet we now know as Neptune, making it the first planet predicted before it was ever seen. In that same vein, today we predict the emergence of a type of politician we have yet to see — one that will likely emerge from rural America, perhaps even rural Virginia. Before we get to that point, let’s work through the political math. When the parties started realigning in the ‘60s and ‘70s, we in the South saw a new type of Democrat arise. Those Democrats declared themselves to be “socially liberal but fiscally conservative” — signaling that they were not the segregationists of a previous generation but weren’t radical enough to alarm the business co