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From the Archives: Politicians on Grounds
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes In light of Tuesday's midterm elections, we are deep in the midterm political season, and nowhere is it more evident than on Grounds. A walk on South Lawn may introduce you to students tabling for a candidate seeking a U.S. Senate seat or asking, “Are you registered to vote?” In decades past, political candidates and their campaigns also visited the University.
GUEST COLUMN: Estate tax law is actually a boon for billionaires
The opinion piece from The Capital Press (“Death tax exemption will save Oregon farms”), which ran in the Rogue Valley Times on July 22, continues the obfuscation of Rep. Kevin Mannix, whose original estate-tax bill had zero to do with “family farms” and in its final version has little relation to them. Mannix and The Capital Press appear to share a cause: abolishing the estate tax, cleverly labeled the “death tax.” Of course, dead people don’t pay taxes; their heirs do.
Guest Column: Estate tax law is a boon for billionaires
The July 21 editorial in The Bulletin from The Capital Press (“Death tax exemption will save Oregon farms”) continues the obfuscation of Rep. Kevin Mannix, whose original estate-tax bill had zero to do with “family farms” and in its final version has little relation to them. Mannix and The Capital Press appear to share a cause: abolishing the estate tax, cleverly labeled the “death tax.” Of course, dead people don’t pay taxes; their heirs do.
Commentary: Estate tax law is a boon for billionaires
The July 20 editorial (“Death tax exemption will save Oregon farms”) continues the obfuscation of Rep. Kevin Mannix, whose original estate-tax bill had zero to do with “family farms” and in its final version has little relation to them. Mannix and the Capital Press appear to share a cause: abolishing the estate tax, cleverly labeled the “death tax.” Of course, dead people don’t pay taxes, their heirs do. Only 4% of Oregonians who die each year have their estates taxed by the state.
Perspective | The lies our textbooks told my generation of Virginians about slavery
A series of textbooks written for the fourth, seventh and 11th grades taught a generation of Virginians our state’s history.
Democratic statehouse victories move Virginia further from its Confederate past
The Confederacy in Virginia is dead. And Donald Trump presided. Repulsed by the president, a new base of the Democratic Party rose up three years ago. It organized after the Women’s March in the blue suburbs of Washington and elsewhere, got behind a wealth of candidates new to campaigning, and flipped 15 seats in the House of Delegates. Last year it flipped the congressional delegation from 7-4 Republican to 7-4 Democratic.
Opinion/Commentary: Remembering UVa’s 1981 Final Four
I find myself weirdly invested in this Virginia Cavaliers basketball team, decades after I was so devoted that I shifted my University of Virginia class schedule to ensure I wouldn’t miss any games. Back then, I was a partisan. Now I’m caught in the players’ thrill of victory and, days later, agony of defeat, as ABC’s Jim McKay would say every Saturday.
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