Opinion
Dear Editor: Shame on your publication for publishing a letter to the editor last month endorsing Hung Cao, and it is nothing more than a free political advertisement for Hung Cao, candidate for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District. It included the typical objection that government needs to stay out of businesses and homes. But the leading plank…
Dear Editor: After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark pro-abortion case Roe v. Wade in June, Loudoun County School Board member Atoosa Reaser and Loudoun County Board Supervisor Juli Briskman took to the streets with other women to protest the decision. Nothing wrong with that until you see the two of them appear in…
Dear Editor: Has anyone seen Wexton? When? Where? Wexton wasn’t at our July 4th parade. She wasn’t at our County Fair. Her district office is always closed. She never shows up for anything. I heard rumor that Wexton was spotted not too long ago taking an all-expense paid congressional junket to the Far East. Must…
By Charles Houston Visit Loudoun has been meeting with various groups touting the importance of its mission – bringing more tourists to Loudoun. Its influential president, Beth Erickson, comes armed with a presentation focused on a survey it commissioned. VL also has a nifty booklet with a county map in the centerfold, locating the forty-five…
By Adam Stevenson Loudoun County has released plans for a recreation complex to be located at the Fields Farm property south of Woodgrove High School and directly west of the Mayfair development. The existing plans detail the inclusion of five soccer fields, two baseball fields and one softball field, maintenance structures, restrooms and concession facilities. …
Dear Editor: Hung Cao’s policies are simple: Government needs to stay out of our businesses and out of our homes. Businesses and residents in the 10th Congressional District are suffering under the weight of historic inflation inflicted on us by the current administration’s policies that have chipped away at our prosperity. The so-called $1.9 trillion…
Dear Editor: On July 26, I attended a Purcellville Town Council meeting to better understand current traffic and safety issues. Little did I know I was walking into a forum that would display a pitiful political stunt that is seen way too often at the national level right before my eyes in small town Purcellville,…
Dear Editor: Hung Cao has once again met the enemy, but this time the enemy is the domestic kind. Cao, a retired US Navy Captain—who swore an oath “to support and defend the US Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic”—has previously met the enemy—the foreign kind—in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, and Somalia, and his…
By Charles Houston A lick-log is a hollowed-out tree trunk, filled with salt that cattle or horses can lick. That somehow led to its vernacular usage today, which means nearing the end of negotiations. In 1836 the Mexican general Santa Ana besieged the Alamo. After a 13-day encirclement, his army left its encampments for a…
Dear Editor: Starting in the spring of 2023 West Virginia plans to close Rt. 340 at the VA/WV state line for at least 90 days to complete a Rock Slide Repair Project. The WVDOT had three options: a total closure, one lane with traffic lights at either end to allow for alternating traffic, or two…