Three primary factors, regardless of anything else, should make relocation of the Colorado Springs-based Space Command an unthinkable prospect:
1. Billions of dollars have been invested in assets used by Space Command in and around Peterson Air Force Base. Abandoning them for a political favor would cost taxpayers a substantial and needless expense at a time when the national debt is rising beyond our economy’s ability to service it. If President-elect Joe Biden cuts military spending after taking office, the prospect of a move becomes even more financially absurd. That’s not to mention the money we must continue hemorrhaging trying to recover from the pandemic. We cannot disrupt the military at a time like this.
December 15, 2020
In Northern Virginia, like much of the nation, Black-owned businesses are being negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. One report found 41% of Black-owned businesses have been forced to close due to COVID-19 compared to just 17% of white-owned businesses. All of this while Black-owned businesses face long-term, racial disparities that severely restrict business ownership, growth, and access to investment capital.
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As part of our Build Back – Dream Forward: COVID-19 Response Fund Event Series, the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia, along with the Northern Virginia Black Chamber of Commerce hosted
Business NOT as Usual: We Need More Capital, More Loans, More Equity for Black-Owned Businesses webinar Thursday, December 3, 2020, to examine strategies for advancing a more inclusive economic recovery. Keynote Speaker Andre M. Perry, Fellow at the Brookings Institution s Metropolitan Policy Program shared new analysis on Black business owner
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Pete Buttigieg is headed to DOT s top spot, where despite his thin transportation résumé, the smooth-talking former heartland mayor could help President-elect Joe Biden sell Congress on a massive job-creating investment in infrastructure that would also attempt to blunt the effects of climate change.
Buttigieg will arrive at the Department of Transportation s Navy Yard headquarters with little experience dealing with the various appendages of official Washington, but he ll hardly be the first person in that position. The White House could follow the mold set by former DOT Secretary Anthony Foxx, another former mayor, who appointed as his chief of staff Sarah Feinberg, a savvy operator who knew Washington, D.C., and helped Foxx hit the ground running.