[sws_tp_red_box] [sws_ui_icon ui_theme="ui-smoothness" icon="ui-icon-alert"] [/sws_ui_icon] From the Chesterfield County website, below is a press release detailing the schedule (by district) for informational meetings about the comprehensive plan. If you want to be a part of the decisions that will directly affect you and your family, please consider attending. It's your duty.[/sws_tp_red_box] For Immediate Release Chesterfield [...]
LOCAL GOVERNMENT NEWS The Goochland County Board of Supervisors voted 5-0 at their August 7, 2012 regular board meeting to resign from Virginia Association of Counties (VACo) and National Association of Counties (NACo) effective immediately. The reasons they cited are: The legislative lobbying efforts of VACo do not match the Board's objectives. A [...]
Another perspective from VirginiaWatchdog.org 's Katie Watson on the "pitchfork protest" out in Warrenton this past Thursday (Aug. 2, 2012): VA: Farm fight in Fauquier gets personal as protesters target official For previous posts on this story, click here and here.
On 27 July, we posted this Action Alert. Here's the news release from Fauquier County Citizens for Family Farms (2 August 2012) on today's Fauquier County Board of Zoning Appeals: Farmer Burned by Fauquier County Statement of Fauquier County Citizens for Family Farms: Fauquier County Board of Zoning Appeals (BZA) ruled against Paris [...]
Not happy with the proposed tolls for I-95? You can weigh in. Click here: VirginiaTollFree95
From the Richmond Times-Dispatch, titled "What a Conservative Stands For": I am a conservative. I love my country, my God and my family. More than anything, I want to see this country prosper and provide an environment where everyone has the opportunity to realize his or her dream. I believe in equal rights and equal [...]
Thomas Jefferson called this the "noiseless step"*...for some it's loud and clear. Fauquier cites farmer for farming July 11, 2012 By Rick Buchanan If you own a farm here in Fauquier you are “special.” If you own a farm here in Fauquier you are, after July 14, 2011, being treated in a “special” [...]
Virginia’s General Assembly has directed that a measure be placed on the ballot this November asking citizens to vote on an amendment to the commonwealth’s constitution that will firmly establish private property rights. For most of U.S. history, people had assumed that the right to their property was sacred and government could take it from [...]
Video from the "John Adams" mini-series. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrvpZxMfKaU&feature=player_detailpage
Statement of Speaker William J. Howell Regarding Today's Ruling on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act RICHMOND, VA - Virginia House of Delegates Speaker William J. Howell (R-Stafford) issued the following statement today following the release of the Supreme Court's decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: "I was very disappointed to [...]
Click here to read the Supreme Court's decision on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a.k.a., ObamaCare (which, by the way, is a name that the White House authorized to be used as of a few months ago).
"This government will operate like an ambush." - Patrick Henry, at the Virginia Ratification Debates, 9 June 1788 Once upon a time a man could earn an honest living for himself without being attacked by a bureaucracy. What the hell happened? If you are not self employed, much of this bureaucracy is hidden from you. [...]
