RICHMOND, Va. – Just three days before the Virginia General Assembly is scheduled to adjourn, Republican leaders in the House of Delegates have proposed a special legislative session to debate Medicaid expansion.
The House and Senate are less than one-tenth of one percent (or $26 million) apart from compromising on a two-year, $96 billion state budget agreement, but GOP leadership reinforced its position Tuesday that Medicaid Expansion does not belong in the budget bill.
Pyramid Management Group sets sights on Manassas Mall — Pyramid Management Group (PMG) has announced that they are acquiring an interest in Manassas Mall, the 935,000 square foot enclosed shopping center in Manassas. [Northern Virginia Times]
Sequestration over, FBI scrambles to fill new agent classes at Quantico — The FBI is scrambling to fill instructor positions and restart classes at its training academy after the lifting of a sequestration-forced hiring freeze that quieted the famed facility at Quantico, Va. [Washington Post]
MANASSAS PARK, Va. — The Manassas Park Community Center will hold a summer job fair for seasonal workers from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, March 8.
The job fair will be held at the Manassas Park Community Center where on-the-spot interviews will be conducted to find applicants to fill 70 open positions.
Local school systems
Prince William County
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William officials must now decide if they are going borrow money to fund the remainder of a long wish list of improvements at county parks.
Officials must act by November 2016 to borrow up to $13.7 million to fund improvements such as adding new playing fields or lighting to existing fields. When the option to take out a bond to fund the improvements was advertised, and ultimately approved by voters eight years ago, officials said the money could be used to expand indoor swimming pools at the Chinn Fitness and Aquatics Center in Woodbridge and the Ben Lomond Community Center near Manassas.
Moe’s Southwest Grill Opens Next Week at Potomac Mills — Food court almost ready to ‘Welcome!’ the popular restaurant chain. [Patch.com]
Man steals $2,000 laptop from business in Va. — Police are looking for a suspect in connection to a commercial burglary incident in Virginia.[WUSA-TV]
Local school systems
Prince William County
MANASSAS, Va. — A Dollar General store in Manassas is expected to close its doors by the end of the month.
The store is located in the Davis Ford Shopping Center next to a new LA Fitness gym that recently opened at the intersection of Prince William Parkway and Wellington Liberia Avenue in Manassas.
HAYMARKET, Va. — Novant Health’s $100 million hospital outside Haymarket on Heathcote Boulevard, aptly named the Haymaket Medical Center, is set to open.
This is the first new hospital to be built in Prince William, Loudoun, or Fairfax counties in the past 17 years.
Mail service is running today but letter carriers need your help to get your mail to you.
The U.S. Postal Service has asked that residents help clear sidewalks, steps, and snow from mailboxes to help ensure timely delivery today.
