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Opinion: Supervisor Monica Gary discredits reporting she doesn’t like

By Uriah Kiser

Editors note: This post appeared on March 28, 2023, as a video on our Youtube channel.

If you missed the story we posted on March 24, 2023, a historic tax increase is proposed for Stafford County residents. The real estate property tax could increase by 40% over last year.

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Stafford’s first data center application calls for 24 buildings

By Uriah Kiser

Stafford County has seen its first application for a data center on 524 acres near the county’s landfill in the Falmouth District.

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Breaking News

Stafford residents facing historic tax increase

By Uriah Kiser

According to the latest figures, owners of averaged-sized single-family homes in Stafford County could be slapped with a $4,811 Real Estate tax bill next year — nearly 40% larger than a year ago, a $1,331 increase.

The Board of Supervisors voted to advertise a $1.175 Real Estate tax rate (including a 3-cent levy to fund fire and rescue services) on every $100 of a home’s value, during its Tuesday, March 21 meeting.

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Features

Fun Land opens 2 new rides, a $1 million investment into park

By Uriah Kiser
Fredericksburg Mayor Mary Katherine Greenlaw speaks at the unveiling of two new rides at Fun Land on March 9, 2023.

Fun Land of Fredericksburg opened two new rides, Patriot Plunge and The Flip Side, marking a $1 million investment into the city’s amusement park.

Both standalone “flat” rides seat 12 people, stand 40 feet tall, and serve as a new draw to the outdoor section of the park that has seen recent expansions, including Virginia’s first three-level go-kart track opened in 2019. Patriots Plunge is a drop tower attraction, while The Flip Side is a spinning pendulum.

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Prince William

Town leaders ask Marines for more street access

By Uriah Kiser

For Town of Quantico residents, there’s one way in and one way out.

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Prince William

Vega gives voice to employees pushing back on county’s ‘offensive, outrageous’ DEI survey

By Uriah Kiser
Vega greets a campaign supporter

Supervisor Yesli Vega continued to push back on what she calls an “insidious and divisive agenda” within the halls of Prince William County Government’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts (DEI), and a survey demanding to know the sexual orientation of employees.

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Schools

Pressure mounts for replacement school; officials make no decision

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Jennie Dean statue at Jennie Dean Memorial Park in Manassas, honoring the founder of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth in 1893.

Pressure is mounting on the Manassas City School Board to build a replacement for the 64-year-old Jennie Dean Elementary School.

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Originals

Speed, red light cameras proposed at 13 schools, 8 intersections

By Uriah Kiser
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Speed and red light cameras could be coming to Prince William County in a pilot program to improve drivers’ bad behavior.

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News

Opinion: Weir’s landslide election a referendum on data centers, but taxpayers still need a break

By Uriah Kiser
Weir

Call it a canary in the coal mine. Call it the result of years of residents pleading for their local leaders to hear them. Call it a referendum on data centers.

Whatever you call it, the landslide election of Bob Weir to the Prince William Board of County Supervisors with more than 60% of the vote should serve as a wake-up call to those in power in not only Prince William County but those who see data centers as a cash cow for their respective jurisdictions.

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Business

Hundreds voice opposition to data center park in Bristow 

By Uriah Kiser

Hundreds packed Chris Yung Elementary School in Bristow on Thursday, February 2, opposing a massive data center complex on the horizon.

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