Local Voices Square Off on Higher Taxes, Business Development
By URIAH KISER
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Author: Potomac Local News
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While it appears Virginia’s leaders have come to an agreement on a new transportation funding bill, not all local voices agree with the new legislation awaiting approval from both the state Sentate and House of Delegates.
The new bill approved by Virginia’s General Assembly will is expected to raise nearly $900 million for transportation revenue, and would replace a 17.5 cent tax per gallon of gas – a rate not touched since 1986 – and replace it with a 3.5 cent wholesale gas tax.
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Victim Had Gang Ties in Washington, D.C.
By URIAH KISER
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By CINDY BROOKSHIRE
For Potomac Local News
MANASSAS, Va. — Leaders from Prince William, Manassas, and Manassas Park wrangled with pressing issues like sequestration’s impact on the area, and how to fund transportation, at Wednesday “State of Prince William.”
By JESSICA DAHLBERG
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Reading the news this week can be a little like reading the story of Chicken Little. Except in this story, the sky is not falling – the sequester is coming.
By WHITNEY SPICER
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Negotiators from both the House and Senate came to an agreement Wednesday on a transportation plan that, if passed, would be the first transportation funding overhaul in Virginia since 1986.
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Submitted News
Francisco Cirilio Vargas-Aquino, aka “Francisco C. Vargas,” and “Miguel,” 48, of Manassas, Va., and Ricardo Avelar Valdez, 47, of Gainesville, Va., have been arrested for their alleged roles in a marijuana smuggling operation based in Northern Virginia that has attempted to smuggle several multi-thousand pound loads of marijuana from Mexico to Prince William County.
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Update 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013
A man was shot and killed while walking his dog in Woodbridge last night. A suspect is in custody and is charged with murder.
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Update
The driver that police said slammed into the back of four cars causing a chain reaction crash and then fled the scene turned himself in to police.
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GAINESVILLE, Va. – It’s happened again – a trailer that was stopped on train tracks at U.S. 29 in Gainesville was swiped by a train.
No one was injured, but the accident has forced the closure of a portion of the busy commuter route just south of Interstate 66 near the Virginia Gateway shopping center. Police said the closed portion of the roadway will remain that way for at least another two to three hours while an investigation takes place.