Seven Republicans vying for seats in the Virginia General Assembly sat inside the old courthouse at the Bristow Courthouse Historic Centre and took questions from me on Monday, September 30.

The Prince William Chamber of Commerce asked me to serve as a moderator for their debate to focus on state and local business issues.


High Purity Systems will hire 105 new employees and move to a new headquarters three times the sizes of its current digs.

The firm makes pipes and performs welding services for hospitals, biopharmaceuticals, and micro-electronics makers such as Manassas-based Micron. It has also produced piping for the Wallops Island, Virginia NASA launch facility.


Just after Micron announced its $3 billion expansion in Manassas in August 2018, where it will manufacture chips for self-driving cars, city Mayor Hal Parrish II spilled the beans.

The city did little, if anything at all, to let surrounding jurisdictions like Prince William County know they were talking with Micron about the major expansion, Parrish told us during an interview at a Prince William Chamber of Commerce networking event at Carmellos.


County leaders on Tuesday didn’t like the idea of outsourcing the job of organizing ribbon-cutting events for new businesses.

Stafford Economic Development and Tourism (ED&T) Director John Holden briefed Board of Supervisors members on details of a plan we first reported over the weekend, to let the Fredericksburg Regional Chamber of Commerce organize ribbon-cutting events for new county businesses.


Multiple businesses in Prince William and Stafford counties made the Inc. 5,000 list of fastest-growing companies in the U.S.

Titan Mechanical – Inc. 5000 #363 Founded in 2014, this Manassas-based multi-family and commercial construction services company has grown exponentially in its fifth year of operations at 1,255% in the last three years, reaching $16 million revenue in 2018. Visit Titan Mechanical to learn more.


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