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Archives for December 2006
The Opposition Lines Up
12 December 2006 | Prince William County | Comments Off
Tonight the Prince William County Board of Supervisors was widely expected to pass a resolution opposing the construction of a power line by Dominion Power over a large portion of the county. I’d be shocked if it didn’t pass unanimously.
Even actor Robert Duvall has joined the fray, which also includes Frank Wolf, Tom Davis, […]
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Plant This Flag On Higher Ground
11 December 2006 | Virginia House | Comments Off
Bacon’s Rebellion reports on Speaker Howell’s pledge to commit at least 50% of all surplus revenues to transportation. Although Jim Bacon has the good sense to withhold judgment pending the details of the plan, such restraint from me would not only be uncharacteristic for me, but it would be wrong to whine about things […]
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Keep A Promise, Bad; Break A Promise, Good
11 December 2006 | Prince William County | 9 Comments
Raising Kaine and the Washington Post editorial board have unsurprisingly united in an effort to promote Governor Kaine’s continuing effort to enact yet another tax raise in Virginia, and have singled out Delegate Scott Lingamfelter and Senator Jay O’Brien as the key leaders who are intent on demanding fiscal discipline. Their version of a “common-sense” […]
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Now It’s Wachovia’s Turn
11 December 2006 | Crime | 1 Comment
A little more than a week ago there was a robbery of a BB&T Bank on Sudley Road, which is one of the two large banks in the area that feel that it’s somehow safer to ban legally concealed firearms from their branches and invite criminals to prey on the bank and possibly the bank’s […]
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In A Hole, Dems Keep Digging
11 December 2006 | Virginia Politics | 11 Comments
There’s been some talk recently about how Democrats will try to take the lessons learned from Jim Webb’s race in order to be competitive in state legislative races this year. That’s going to be a tall order to fill, given what we’ve seen lately. Although they managed to defeat an important incumbent who […]
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Yeah, It Must Be The Volunteers
11 December 2006 | US Congress | 4 Comments
An NLS contributor writes this evening that Al Weed’s demise was caused by incompetent campaign staff that had a high turnover rate.
I wonder what the explanation will be for Judy Feder’s abysmal performance. Seems like she failed despite top notch and dedicated campaign staff, with perhaps one exception. Could it be that the […]
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My Server Honors The Sabbath, and Planned Outage
10 December 2006 | Blogs | 4 Comments
Apparently some server maintenance last evening left an extraneous file in the webserver configuration directory which prevented the web server from coming up. So many of you were probably left wondering why you couldn’t connect. It wasn’t you.
You may notice another outage this Tuesday. I’m planning an electrical upgrade at my house […]
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We Are The Champions!
9 December 2006 | Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Delegate Jackson Miller just called me to say that Osborn defeated Chantilly in the State Championship. When he called, the Eagles had the ball with a score of 42-20 and three minutes left to play.
More to come later…
UPDATE: The Journal-Messenger has coverage here, and Bwana has his take here. Final score was 42-20. We […]
Jail Expansion In Manassas
9 December 2006 | Manassas City, Prince William County | 2 Comments
I’ve been hearing that there’s a plan to build a new jail on Route 28 near the border between Manassas City and Prince William County. While I haven’t been able to get solid confirmation on this, there’s enough details which make this information credible enough to start talking about in some detail. In addition, […]
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Where Did That $2.7 Million Go?
9 December 2006 | Prince William County | 1 Comment
The Manassas Journal-Messenger reports that due to an accounting error, the Prince William County Office of Housing and Community Development “was behind” by $2.7 million in Section 8 housing voucher payments, which will be made up by reducing spending in the Technology Replacement Fund. The federal government changed the reimbursement rules, the county didn’t […]
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Oh, Now I Get It!
8 December 2006 | Virginia Politics | 19 Comments
I notice TC has a post up this evening where he expresses some dismay about today’s story on Jeff Dion. Within his post, he mentions Delegate Bob Brink (cough, cough) in a somewhat strange reference that didn’t connect at first.
That is until I heard that Bob Brink got thrown out of his house three […]
Dominion Gets Grilled
8 December 2006 | Prince William County | 6 Comments
Over a thousand Prince William County residents showed up for the “workshop” hosted by Dominion Power which aimed to explain to residents why building a half-million volt transmission line through the rural crescent in Prince William is a good idea. Apparently there were few takers for the idea that it’s in our best interests to […]
Go Eagles!
8 December 2006 | Uncategorized | 5 Comments
The Osborn High School Eagles will face off against Chantilly in the AAA Division 6 Championship game this Saturday at Freedom High School in Woodbridge at 1:30PM. I hope as many folks as possible from Manassas show up and support our team.
GO EAGLES FOOTBALL!
UPDATE: The Manassas Journal-Messenger reports that tickets are going fast.
Meet Jeff Dion
7 December 2006 | Prince William County | 102 Comments
Jeffrey R. Dion is the Democrat running for Occoquan Supervisor in the special election to be held on January 30th, 2007. We’ve heard a lot of nice things said about Jeff, who has done a good job helping crime victims. But there’s some other critical information that the Democrats haven’t been too interested […]
Occoquan Convention Update
7 December 2006 | Prince William County | 7 Comments
The deadline for delegate pre-filing for the Republican Convention has been extended from 6PM on December 11th to 6PM on December 14th due to a delay in getting the Call published.
While this might cause some confusion regarding the delegate forms, which will have the old deadline printed on them, the impact will really be felt […]
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Gainesville Times Debunks WashPo
7 December 2006 | Prince William County | 3 Comments
The Gainesvile Times offers it’s take on this weeks development decision by the Board of County Supervisors in an article entitled “Legal Problems Sink Rezoning Moratorium”. Comparing the Times’ coverage on this decision with The Washington Post’s coverage (see “Supervisors Freeze Home Construction”) and some of the blogging coverage (see “No New Construction in […]
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Colgan In The Crosshairs
7 December 2006 | 29th VA Senate | Comments Off
Bearing Drift is reporting that at the Huffman Advance the 29th Senate seat occupied by Senator Charles Colgan was identified as a targeted race. Additionally, the RPV will focus on the Senate races this year.
I’ll bet Bob Fitzsimmonds is thrilled.
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Ya Think There Might Be A Connection?
7 December 2006 | Prince William County | 1 Comment
The Bull Run Observer ran several articles on education in it’s December 1st issue. One concerns how the number of Prince William County “Schools of Excellence” has dropped due to new testing requirements and higher standards. In another article School Board Chairman Lucy Beauchamp is quoted from her remarks at the superintendant’s breakfast […]
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PWC BOCS Shockwaves
6 December 2006 | Humor & Satire | 3 Comments
I’ve been interested in the varied coverage of the decision by the Prince William County Board of Supervisors in regards to development. Apparently a lot more ended up in the resolution than originally presented to the board.
EatYummyBorscht has the scoop:
The Prince William County Board of Supervisors adopted a plan to conduct aerial bombardments of […]
Rezoning Moratorium Approved
6 December 2006 | Prince William County | 13 Comments
As expected, the Prince William County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the resolution offered by Wally Covington (R-Brentsville) which will defer all rezoning requests for one year, beginning January 1, 2007. While this will not affect “by right” development, it will defer all development that requires a rezoning which accounts for a big portion […]
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