Saving Virginia Summers







 Since the days of the London Company in 1607 and throughout her history until this day, Virginia has chosen to carry the moniker of a Commonwealth. Truth be told, any state could be labeled as such and there would be no revocation of constitutional benefit for any inhabitant. Today Virginia still maintains the status of Commonwealth to remind us of our past links to Cromwell in the role of Lord Protector as well as remembering that our founding fathers fight of a distant disconnected government’s one size fits all approach to the day-to-day affairs of its people. At present Richmond is as the crow flies some 90 miles from her coastline of Virginia Beach, however centuries away in realizing the needs of the constituency and their economy. As the General Assembly moves again to have a uniform start date of schools throughout the commonwealth prior to the Labor Day Holiday. As unfamiliar as Parliament and King George were with their colonists needs and desires, Governor McDonnell backs a plan to start schools which receive state funding prior to a holiday which is known to be the make or break time of year for all merchants in the resort area. This special labor pool comprised mainly of young men and women of High School age occupy an integral niche of each of these merchants business plan. This youthful workforce can in some instances comprise 20% of a schedule team. It is incomprehensible to believe that what is useful in Danville or Loudon over the Labor Weekend could be as equally beneficial at the coastline in South- Eastern Virginia. So as Republicans take control of the current General Assembly and Democrats either make speeches about fairness or introduce bills to empower the Virginia ABC to sell marijuana, please allow your voice to be heard within this august body. Let this incarnation of The Virginia General Assembly become aware that their residents and business owners in the extreme South- Eastern part of the commonwealth require public schools to commence after the Labor Day holiday.