The Commonwealth of Virginia is currently facing a $4.5 billion shortfall in the 2010-2012 biennial budget. All of this is on top of the $7 billion already cut under the prior biennial budget. Information continues to emerge in small doses …
In this economic climate you would think that Del. Mark Cole (R-Fredericksburg) has been busy working on bills to bring jobs or relieve traffic within the Fredericksburg region, but no he has chosen to focus his energy on the snowpocalypse …
In case you missed it (given all of our winter weather), the Republican majority on the Stafford County Board of Supervisors repealed the Business, Professional and Occupational License (BPOL) tax on February 2, 2010. I pretty much said that this …
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Unless you have been living under a political rock, everyone should be no doubt aware of a public hearing scheduled for tomorrow to reinstitute the merchants’ capital tax and nix the BPOL tax. Republicans made BPOL a key issue during …
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…or a certain former Stafford County Supervisor named George Schwartz (D-Falmouth) (see Spaceballs). In 2007, Stafford Democrats met with great success at the local level. Dr. Harry Crisp (D-George Washington) and Bob Woodson (D-Griffis-Widewater) defeated their Republican opponents and provided …
Sens. Webb and Warner announced today that Virginia has been awarded $75 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARAA) stimulus funds to add a third track segment between Arkendale in Stafford County and Powell’s Creek in Price William County. …
At today’s Stafford Democratic Committee (SDC) Reorganizational Caucus, former Aquia Democratic Supervisor Kandy Hilliard was elected Chair of the SDC. As the outgoing Chair of this committee, I believe that Kandy will continue the tremendous progress we have made over …
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