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Mayor Parrish: What IBM saw in Manassas 50 years ago Micron sees, too

By Uriah Kiser
Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish II presents Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra with framed photo of the Micron facility in the city.

MANASSAS — Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish, II said the landmark Micron expansion deal has been a project in the making for the last 10 years. The City has been preparing to accommodate the impact this technology giant will bring to the region, creating  1,100 new high-paying jobs by 2030.

Governor Ralph Northam announced the expansion at the city’s Godwin Drive manufacturing plant earlier this month. Micron will develop new technologies for driverless cars.

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Copters to cars: Micron’s $3 billion expansion makes Manassas a leader in autonomous vehicles

By Uriah Kiser
Manassas Mayor Hal Parrish II presents Micron President and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra with framed photo of the Micron facility in the city.

MANASSAS — Micron on Wednesday announced a major expansion at its Manassas production facility.

The silicon chip maker will invest $3 billion over the next 10 years in developing technology for driverless cars. The announcement comes as automakers are looking to increase the capacity of the memory inside the cars and trucks, at the dawn of the automated vehicle era.

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News

Podcast: The plastics problem in Prince William County

By Uriah Kiser

On this edition of the Potomac Local Podcast, reporter Olivia Briscoe joins me to talk about her reporting on the Prince William County Landfill, and about how plastics are piling up there. 

She reported this week that, since a decision made by China earlier this year to stop accepting used plastics for recycling, that waste has been piling up at the local landfill. 

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Features

Woodbridge brewer aims to please Fredericksburg radio personalities’ love for beer and charity

By Uriah Kiser

WOODBRIDGE — It’s clear that radio personalities in Fredericksburg like to drink their beer.

A new beer by Woodbridge brewer Brew Republic aims to deliver on two fronts — give the radio DJs the malt and hops they want, and do it for a good cause.

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High winds topple massive trees in Stafford County

By Uriah Kiser

“The wind picked up, I saw the rain going sideways I looked out the front door I couldn’t see the green of the trees across from my house, all I could see was gray and I knew it was rain. So I grabbed my wife and we ran into my daughter’s closet and I said: ‘we have to get out of harm’s way.’ I just had a feeling like a tornado or something was going to happen,” said Micheal Davis, who was with his wife at their Deacon Road home when the storm blew through.

When the storm passed, Davis found nine large trees down in his yard.

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