Rodney Jordan, Our Terrific Transportation Policy

The Believer

The Believer

Rodney Jordan believes in education.

He believes in helping the underdog.

He believes in helping individuals.

The Norfolk native and nephew of civil rights leader, Joe Jordan, believes that all children should have the chance to excel and that they should have the opportunity afforded them to excel.

He is a quiet crusader and relentless in his drive to give children and adults the right to exist and succeed in society.

Jordan, a member of the Norfolk Public School board, was appointed Tidewater Regional Vice Chairman for the Virginia School Boards Association May 1.

Jordan’s appointment was announced during a VSBA regional forum NPS hosted at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott.
“’Big ideas’ emerging from the NPS five-year Strategic Plan have benefit to the region,” Jordan said in a statement.

“Likewise, other districts have their own innovations that can be of benefit to NPS. I aim for my work with the VSBA Tidewater Region to support NPS being a cornerstone of a proudly diverse city within a proudly diverse region.”
“All of public education is under economic strain,” Jordan said.

“VSBA, among other things, is an advocacy arm for school boards. Working together, our region’s strengths can secure appropriate funding to support excellence in education for our region and across the Commonwealth.”
The Virginia School Boards Association has a total of nine regions across the commonwealth.

Billion dollar boondoggle
We should be thankful, you and me.
We should be thankful for the millions of dollars coming our way for transportation. 
 

Our transportation policy

We should be thankful for all that the Commonwealth Transportation Board and Governor McDonnell have done for our transportation glitches.

That’s the tenor of an editorial written by CTB member Aubrey Layne and published in yesterday’s Virginian-Pilot.

Yes, we are thankful.

We are thankful for the tolls we will have to pay.

We are thankful for money diverted to projects that in importance are low on the scale, such as the 55-mile superhighway from Suffolk to Petersburg (not to Richmond) parallel to Route 460.

(It is ironic that millions of dollar will be thrown away on a highway project that will run parallel to the new passenger train between Norfolk and Petersburg.)

Instead, we get tolls on the tunnels and the Martin Luther King Freeway (now there’s an oxymoron).

Even though a Portsmouth judge has ruled that the tolls are unconstitutional, work on the second Mid-Town Tunnel continues.

In the end, despite what will happen, we will pay dearly for our fractured and foolish transportation policy.

Because we don’t have one.

This city wants a bridge. Another city wants a tunnel, and another city doesn’t want tolls, and so it goes.

On and on, year after year.

But we should be thankful.

Are we?