Richard Falknor
Posted by James on August 24th, 2006
Richard Falknor, an occasional contributor to NoVaPolitics.com, is a writer, journalist, and a close student of those American and British conservatives who continue to influence modern times. For nearly 15 years, Falknor managed an independent weekly health-business newsletter from the publication’s Prince Frederick, Maryland. office. This five-reporter publication became the ‘bible’ of the home health care industry.
Falknor gained substantial hands-on government experience as an aide to Senator Henry M. Jackson and to a House investigating and Senate legislative committee, then as a policy staffer with U. S. Department of Transportation and the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The American Political Science Association named Falknor a Congressional Staff Fellow enabling him to attend Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government where he received his M.P.A. in 1967.
A graduate of the Phillips Exeter Academy and the University of California at Berkeley, he received the Army Commendation Medal for his work editing the Seventh Army newspaper in the Cold War Germany of the late 1950s.
Married to Susan Freis Falknor, a professional editor and a published poet, long-time Marylander Falknor keeps his Free State roots, but now lives near the Blue Ridge in Loudoun County.
Today Falknor serves as Executive Vice President of the Maryland Taxpayers Association, Inc.,
and chairs the Maryland Center-Right Coalition. He is an occasional columnist for virginianewssource.com and authors BlueRidgeForum.