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The Tea Party vs. smart growth
The Tea Party movement in Virginia has a new whipping boy: smart growth. One focus is Chesterfield County, the largest suburban area in the Richmond region, which has been beset with the woes of overbuilding and lax oversight for...
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Peter Galuszka
| March 7, 2011; 2:48 PM ET |
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HotTopic, Local blog network, Prince William County, Va. Politics, Virginia, development, economy, education, energy, environment, guns, housing, police, real estate, schools, transportation
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Whose defense job gets cut?
With the federal budget being hotly contested, one wonders how many job cuts, especially in the defense sector, will be made across the region and which politician will get blamed for them. By one account, nearly 20,000 Virginia jobs...
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Peter Galuszka
| March 4, 2011; 2:37 PM ET |
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D.C., Maryland, Va. Politics, Virginia, development, economy, guns, military
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The real story in D.C.'s gun data
In his Feb. 8 front-page article “In D.C., wealthy take up arms,” Paul Duggan examined relevant data and then drew an irrelevant conclusion. First, the data: Since the Supreme Court’s June 2008 Heller decision overturning the District’s gun ban, 151...
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Robert A. Levy, Naples, Fla.
| February 11, 2011; 4:03 PM ET |
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Is Webb's departure such a disaster for Democrats?
Jim Webb's long-awaited and unsurprising announcement that he will not seek reelection as U.S. senator from Virginia has the blogosphere buzzing about who's in, who's out and whose bench is simply too small. There seem to be a number...
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Peter Galuszka
| February 10, 2011; 11:33 AM ET |
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Virginia's Tea Party needs to grow up
Is that yellow rattlesnake slithering back into its hole? It could be, since the Virginia Tea Party movement seems to be sputtering now that it has worked its way into the mainstream of state political activity -- namely the...
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Peter Galuszka
| February 9, 2011; 11:19 AM ET |
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Don't rush to judge officers in Takoma Park standoff
I am happy to hear the police are going to review the shooting incident in the Takoma Park hostage standoff Friday. The possibility that the hostage, police officers, media, bank personnel, shoppers and others were at risk from rapid gunfire...
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Michael J. Bolton, Arlington
| February 2, 2011; 6:30 PM ET |
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HotTopic, Maryland, Montgomery County, Takoma, crime, guns, police
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