Dominion Energy
Virginians could soon save on their power bills thanks to government oversight of electric utilities. Lawmakers in Richmond are in the homestretch on debating legislation that will shape Virginia’s energy future — Senate Bill 1265. If enacted, it will save Virginia residential electric customers $6-7 on their monthly power bills while strengthening regulatory oversight of electric companies to protect consumers.
Importantly, this bill would save Dominion Energy customers $350 million by eliminating a number of “riders” (additional project fees on a customer’s electric bill) and simplify the billing process. It also allows for the continuation of a healthy utility that can continue to make much needed investments in a secure and safe energy grid.
As ratepayers struggle with rising energy costs, Virginia lawmakers now have the opportunity to lower power bills and to ensure sensible government oversight of utilities. We encourage the support of SB1265 and that it be sent to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s desk for signature.
— Gary Meltz, executive director of Power for Tomorrow, Washington, D.C. or any nation’s, history should be glossed over or hidden from students. What is missing from the push by Dr. David W. Reid and others to revise how it is taught is one thing that Reid does not mention — context. When I was a student, my history professor prioritized three things when answering his questions. Those were what, when and why. The teaching of our past has to be presented in context — how did the subject matter relate to the societal mores of the time?
With the teaching of slavery in particular, we do not judge history or the society of that time on what we are today. We address it in the context of the time it occurred. As an example, up until just prior to the Civil War the North saw slavery as necessary because the industrial North needed the agricultural South to supply it with those products it could not produce on its own. Even President Abraham Lincoln was not anti-slavery at the beginning of the war.
Those opposed to the revisionist nature of our school’s history curriculum also agree that the indoctrination of students into progressive tenets is wrong. Teach history, warts and all, in the context of what happened and why.
We do not support in any way teaching white students that, because of slavery, they are inherently racist and that America, today, is a racist society. Likewise, we do not support teaching nonwhite students that they are inherently oppressed by white society because of slavery from 150 years ago.
— Bill Wallace, Gloucester