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PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Mike May is once again running for the job of Prince William County Commonwealth Attorney.
This is the second time May has sought the job. He last ran for the seat in 2015, and much of his platform today remains the same.
STAFFORD — The slated improvements to Juggins Road in North Stafford is one of the county’s most important road projects.
Juggins Road is the main thoroughfare that will carry hundreds of students, and teachers to a new Anne. E. Moncure Elementary that is slated to open this fall.
WOODBRIDGE — When Corey Stewart was running for governor in 2017, he was accused time and again of being a racist.
The Republican during the campaign defended calls to leave standing Confederate statues in public squares to at a time when many were calling on local governments to take them down and mothball them in storage units or relocate them to National Parks.
WOODBRIDGE — Under new rules adopted Tuesday, Prince William County may use public funds to incentivize economic development projects.
Property developers could now find themselves eligible for county funds to buy property to advance a project like a new office building. The funds could be used to buy property on which “modest homes” sit, as suggested by Potomac District Supervisor Maureen Caddigan. Once purchased, those homes would be cleared for larger commercial projects.
MANASSAS — A Manassas City Councilman says he’s made an offer to the state to settle a federal tax lien claiming he owes nearly a quarter million dollars in back taxes.
New court documents dated Jan. 28, 2019 claim Councilman Mark D. Wolfe to be in arrears in $22,286 back property taxes owed to the city.
WOODBRIDGE — What do you want to see more of in Prince William County parks?
That was the question posed to a room of more than 100 people who turned out for a public meeting held by the county’s parks and recreation department on January 25 at the county government center.
WOODBRIDGE — They met during a fundraising event in 2011, way before either man ran for office.
The two connected, talking about public service, and dedication to family and community. Today, former Virginia Delegate Micheal Futrell is remembering that encounter with Virginia Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax.
AIRLIE — Stafford County leaders pumped the brakes on a possible tax increase to fund county road improvements.
County Administrator Thomas Foley told the county Board of Supervisors on Saturday that the government would need to increase the county budget 10-fold to pay for $190 million in needed road improvements in the county.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — A bill in the Virginia House of Delegates, co-sponsored by multiple Prince William County legislators, that would allow a woman to receive an abortion up until the time of delivery died this week.
Delegate Kathy Tran (42-D, Lorton, West Springfield) sponsored HB 2491 which would have changed a requirement for women to obtain approval from three doctors to receive an abortion in the third and final trimester of pregnancy to one. Tran’s bill died Monday in a House Courts Subcommittee where she told a panel of lawmakers that a child could an aborted at the time a mother was dilating on the delivery table.
WOODBRIDGE — Before the Interstate 95 Express Lanes could be expanded to Fredericksburg, there was this little thing known affectionately as a “compensation event.”
That’s the term coined by state officials and Transurban, operators of the E-ZPass Express Lanes on I-95, 395, and 495, when they signed an agreement to build and maintain the lanes under former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell.
