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Dumfries budget report: 944% increase in FOIA, miscellaneous revenues in 2020

By Uriah Kiser
Dumfries Town Manager Keith Rogers and Mayor Derrick Wood.

Apparently, public information doesn’t come cheap in Dumfries.

The town collected $24,000 in revenues from Freedom of Information Act requests, and other miscellaneous fees in the Fiscal Year 2020, which ended June 30. The line item amount represents a 944% increase over what the town had anticipated for the year, which was $2,500, according to a preliminary budget report provided to the town council.

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OmniRide considers adding local bus routes in heavily-populated eastern Prince William

By Uriah Kiser

Transportation officials in Prince William are looking at altering and adding new service to some of the county’s busiest local bus routes.

At its public meeting on Thursday, July 9, OmniRide will ask PRTC commissioners for permission to study, and to take public comments on a plan to increase the number of local bus routes it has in the Woodbridge, Lake Ridge, and Dumfries areas from four to seven. The transit agency, which already services the Route 1, Dale Boulevard, and Old Bridge Road corridors with regular local bus service, seeks to add more bus stops in more places.

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Prince William County elected official apologizes for ‘token black person’ comment

By Uriah Kiser
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Tiziana Bottino, an elected Director of the Prince William County Soil and Water Conservation District, issued an apology after making a comment on a post on Facebook some deemed to be racist.

On Sunday, June 28, Bottino commented on a story that appeared on the Potomac Local News Facebook page, about the election of Tim Parrish as the new chairman of the Prince William County Republican Committee.

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Prince William elected official: ‘Now you have your token black person’

By Uriah Kiser

After Prince William County Republicans elected a new party committee chairman, an elected county official took to Facebook and made comments that some are calling racist.

Tiziana Bottino is an elected Director of the Prince William County Soil and Water Conservation District, an agency that monitors, and protects water and soil quality in an

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