Letters to the editor

Vote for Hung Cao for Virginia’s 10th Congressional District on Nov. 8

August 3, 2022

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…

Pitiful Purcellville politics

August 3, 2022

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,…

Cao will defend the U.S. Constitution

July 25, 2022

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…

There is an alternative to closing Rt. 340

June 1, 2022

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…

Since when does a developer’s consulting engineer speak for the County?

May 9, 2022

Dear Editor: When a taxpayer and long-term resident of Loudoun County sends a letter of concern to a County official about a proposed development in their neighborhood, is it common practice for that letter to be forwarded to the developer’s consulting engineer? It wouldn’t seem so, but this is what we experienced. Just up the…

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