Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø speaks up: Letters to the editor for the week of Nov. 28, 2025
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Our weekly round-up of letters published in the Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø.
Virginia continues to benefit from a strong fiscal position, including a recent budget surplus and taxpayer rebates. It’s important to recognize industries that contribute meaningfully to the commonwealth’s revenue base. The banking industry is a reliable and responsible taxpayer in Virginia, supporting public services and infrastructure through consistent contributions. In contrast, tax-exempt credit unions do not contribute in the same way, raising important questions about fairness and fiscal responsibility.
Virginia’s credit unions — some of the largest financial institutions of their kind in the country — continue to pay nothing in taxes because of an outdated tax exemption that no longer reflects their original mission. Nationally, that same tax advantage has fueled rapid credit union expansion, including the acquisitions of community banks and million-dollar spending on stadium naming rights and private jets.
- Dan Crawford
Virginia has become the global hub for data centers, with Loudoun County alone hosting more than 70% of the world’s internet traffic. While marketed as an “economic opportunity,†the proliferation of data centers poses serious and lasting harm to Virginia’s environment, communities, and long-term economic resilience.
Data centers are among the most energy-intensive buildings, consuming many times more electricity per square foot than typical buildings. Virginia’s existing centers already strain electrical grids, pushing utilities into proposing new gas plants and high-voltage transmission lines to meet demand, undermining the state’s climate commitments, and locking Virginians into fossil fuel dependence, and driving up energy costs for households and businesses.
The recent editorial by Jacob Lane, published in The Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø, is the same old lame sound bite I hear from my MAGA siblings and other people fallen into the trap of Trumpism.
If these people are so scared of one party rule, which there isn't, given the Republicans control several state legislatures and the national Congress, you have to wonder what they are so scared of except the fact that the American people, for the most part, understand that the Republican Party has lost its soul.
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Virginia continues to benefit from a strong fiscal position, including a recent budget surplus and taxpayer rebates. It’s important to recognize industries that contribute meaningfully to the commonwealth’s revenue base. The banking industry is a reliable and responsible taxpayer in Virginia, supporting public services and infrastructure through consistent contributions. In contrast, tax-exempt credit unions do not contribute in the same way, raising important questions about fairness and fiscal responsibility.
Virginia’s credit unions — some of the largest financial institutions of their kind in the country — continue to pay nothing in taxes because of an outdated tax exemption that no longer reflects their original mission. Nationally, that same tax advantage has fueled rapid credit union expansion, including the acquisitions of community banks and million-dollar spending on stadium naming rights and private jets.
- Dan Crawford
Virginia has become the global hub for data centers, with Loudoun County alone hosting more than 70% of the world’s internet traffic. While marketed as an “economic opportunity,†the proliferation of data centers poses serious and lasting harm to Virginia’s environment, communities, and long-term economic resilience.
Data centers are among the most energy-intensive buildings, consuming many times more electricity per square foot than typical buildings. Virginia’s existing centers already strain electrical grids, pushing utilities into proposing new gas plants and high-voltage transmission lines to meet demand, undermining the state’s climate commitments, and locking Virginians into fossil fuel dependence, and driving up energy costs for households and businesses.
The recent editorial by Jacob Lane, published in The Â鶹´«Ã½¹ÙÍø, is the same old lame sound bite I hear from my MAGA siblings and other people fallen into the trap of Trumpism.
If these people are so scared of one party rule, which there isn't, given the Republicans control several state legislatures and the national Congress, you have to wonder what they are so scared of except the fact that the American people, for the most part, understand that the Republican Party has lost its soul.
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