Publisher’s Post

Most of the time, getting the news means you were in the right place at the right time.

For a photographer, that particularly rings true, because if you’re not there, you miss the shot. On Sunday, our photographer was there outside a Goodwill store in North Stafford as smoke billowed out of the building due to a fire in a trash compactor.

For the past five months, we’ve heard from multiple people who called police officers in Prince William County everything, from racists to terrorists to members of the prison industrial complex.

These speakers stand at a microphone and voice their opinions during the citizen comment portion of the Supervisors’ meetings, are very vocal, have called for abolishing the police department altogether, and often evoke the applause of their supporters who stand outside the meeting room to rally for their cause.

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I want to take an opportunity to welcome Germanna Community College as an advertiser on Potomac Local News.

I’ve been working closely with the college during the coronavirus pandemic to help get out the word on many of the things it is doing to help students in our communities continue to advance their education despite the challenges of remote learning.

If you’re hoping to win friends and influence people, standing before a group of politicians — Democrats and Republicans — who spent more than a year of their life, and tens of thousands of dollars to campaign and then be elected to serve the people, please take note: This is not the way to do it.

When it comes to the art of persuasion, this comment, too, can be written off as a failed tactic that won’t be remembered in the halls of great public speech.