Government
The Loudoun County School Board adopted the FY24 Budget during the Operating Budget Adoption and Public Hearing on Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Loudoun County Public Schools Administrative Offices in Ashburn. Ten community members provided comment, six in-person and four virtually, for the Board to consider as they tackled the over $1.6B operating fund. The session was…
By Tabitha Reeves On Jan. 26, Gov. Glenn Youngkin was the keynote speaker at the National Federation of Independent Business Small Business Day, where he emphasized the need to cut state taxes. Comparing Virginia to surrounding states, he explained why his administration believes that Virginia is too expensive and that a reduction in taxes can…
Washington, DC – Today, Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) announced her selection to serve on the House Appropriations Committee Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Subcommittee and Legislative Branch Subcommittee. “I’m honored to be selected once again to serve on the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development and the Legislative Branch Subcommittees. I look forward to…
At the Purcellville Town Council Work Session on Jan. 25, the Council voted unanimously to use the $926,000 plus interest in monies obtained from the sale of nutrient credits on the Aberdeen property to offset wastewater increases.
Loudoun County’s recently established equity resolution defines the term as “commitment to promote fairness and justice in the formation of priorities, policies, and programs.”
Tabitha Reeves On Jan. 10, Mark Hoffman of the Transportation and Capital Infrastructure Department updated the Loudoun County Finance, Government Operations and Economic Development Committee on the Town of Purcellville Projects. Despite making some requested changes to the proposed infrastructure, such as including pickleball courts at Fields Farm and moving the Park and Ride lot…
Gov. Glenn Youngkin has announced that the Virginia Council on Women is encouraging female high school students to enter the 12th Annual Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Mathematics, and Healthcare essay contest. The contest is open to Virginia women in their senior year of high school who hold at least a 3.0 GPA for the merit-based awards…
At its Jan. 17, meeting, the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors approved changes to the county’s Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Ordinance and zoning map pertaining to land development in areas where airport noise impacts are known to occur currently and expected to occur in the future as airport traffic increases. The Airport Impact Overlay District is a zoning designation for…
Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced that Amazon Web Services, an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), plans to invest $35 billion by 2040 to establish multiple data center campuses across Virginia. The Virginia Economic Development Partnership worked with the General Assembly’s Major Employment and Investment Project Approval Commission to secure the project to expand data center investment…
Sage’s Law seeks to address several failures of government that were experienced first-hand by a Virginia teenager and her parents over the past year. Michele Blair, the mother of the bill’s namesake shared her story of being intentionally kept in the dark about her daughter’s gender struggles while at school from both teachers and counselors,…