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.
STAFFORD — (Press Release) Crystal Vanuch, a lifelong conservative and resident of Stafford, accepts Supervisor Wendy Maurer’s endorsement to run for the position of Rock Hill Supervisor.
Vanuch, 35, is a proud resident in the Rock Hill District. She currently serves as the Chairman of the Stafford County Planning Commission. She is President and CEO of a successful public affairs firm based in Stafford, Virginia. Vanuch graduated Magna Cum Laude from Virginia Wesleyan University with a degree in Business. The general election is scheduled to take place on November 5th, 2019.
RICHMOND — So far this decade, Virginia has grown — and shrunk — in population.
Seventy of the state’s 133 cities and counties gained population between April 1, 2010, and July 1, 2018, according to data released this week by the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service at the University of Virginia. The population of Loudoun County, in Northern Virginia, jumped 30 percent, to more than 406,000.
STAFFORD — Amidst a storm of information regarding Superintendent Scott Kizner’s newly proposed transgender policy, the name of one organization keeps recurring: Equality Stafford.
The group was formed two years ago by Amy Saunders, Stafford resident and mother of a transgender student. It is a community of both adult allies and students who seek to establish LGBT+ policies in Stafford.
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.
RICHMOND — Resisting pressure to resign, Gov. Ralph Northam said Saturday that he is not one of the individuals in a racist photo found on his medical school yearbook page, but he revealed he once “darkened” his skin as part of a Michael Jackson costume in a dance contest the same year.
At an afternoon press conference, Northam said the costume was not blackface — which is when a non-black person uses makeup or another substance to appear black. At the San Antonio event, which occurred in 1984, the same year the yearbook photo was taken, a 25-year-old Northam put shoe polish on his cheeks. He said he used a small amount because the substance is “hard to get off.”
RICHMOND, Va — Talk about a political firestorm.
On Friday morning, a conservative news website posted Gov. Ralph Northam’s page from a college yearbook featuring a racist photo.
RICHMOND — If Gov. Ralph Northam resigns because of the scandal over a racist picture in his medical school yearbook, Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax would become the 74th governor of Virginia.
That would make Fairfax, 39, the second African-American governor in Virginia’s history and just the fourth to hold the office nationwide in recent years. In 1990, L. Douglas Wilder became the first elected African-American governor in the United States.
RICHMOND — Across the political spectrum, government officials and advocacy groups are calling for Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s resignation after media reports of a racist photo on his page in a college yearbook.
The photo, from Northam’s 1984 medical school yearbook, features two men — one dressed in blackface and the other in a Ku Klux Klan robe. Northam publicly apologized for the photo and the costumes that were “clearly racist and offensive.” But he did not mention which costume he was in.
MANASSAS — (Press Release) George Tinnell may have had a premonition. When the Manassas man bought a Powerball ticket, he told the store clerk: “ I think I’m going to win this time.”
As it turns out, he was right. Mr. Tinnell matched the first five numbers in the Jan. 5 Powerball drawing to win $1 million.
