By URIAH KISER
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. — Prince William County employees will keep their Columbus Day holiday, but 11 county employees who work to keep drug addicts off the streets will be out of a job.
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Politics
By RICHARD ANDERSON
Delegate, 51 District
Prince William County
We are back home in Woodbridge after two months in Richmond for the 2013 session of the Virginia General Assembly. I am reporting to Prince William residents on what transpired at the Capitol, and I am doing so in my own words and not through a staff filter.
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Updated Nov. 19, 2014
Terrance Boulden notified Potomac Local he would not seek the Woodbridge District Supervisors seat. Here’s his statement:
Submitted News
The Prince William County Democratic Committee announces Dr. Maya Rockeymoore, public policy scholar and media commentator, as the featured speaker at the 34th Annual Jefferson Jackson Dinner later this month.
Submitted News
DALE CITY, Va. – Congressman Gerry Connolly was the recipient of the 2013 Public Service Award at the Dale City Multicultural Achievement Awards Banquet held recently in Springfield.
By DANA CARLSON
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – The Virginia Board of Health voted Friday to require abortion clinics to meet hospital building-code standards – rules that abortion rights activists said would force many of the state’s 20 clinics to close.
By KEITH WALKER
For Potomac Local News
STAFFORD, Va. — Applause isn’t allowed during discussions and meetings in the Stafford County Board of Supervisors chamber, so a room full of teachers held up little signs, with flat wooden handles and waggled them above their heads when they liked something they heard.
By MARK ROBINSON
Capital News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – The General Assembly on Wednesday narrowly approved an amendment by Gov. Bob McDonnell that will prohibit certain health insurance companies in Virginia from providing coverage for women seeking an abortion.
By PAUL MILDE
Stafford Aquia District Supervisor
Last fall, the Board of Supervisors narrowly voted to tear down the current 285,000 square foot Stafford High School and replace it with a new 275,000 square foot Stafford High School. The estimated cost to Stafford’s taxpayers for this proposal: $66 million.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY, Va. – Remember the long lines, the crowded hallways, and the quiet frustration that was Election Day in portions of Prince William County?
In Woodbridge, it took some voters as long as four hours to cast their votes, with poll workers at Potomac Middle School accommodating the final voter in line just before 11 p.m. – four hours after polls had officially closed.