Tim Cox is hoping Prince William County voters will meet him in the middle.
The 34-year-old conservative is running for the 51st District House of Delegates seat. As it sits today, the district includes a large swath of the county, from the county's east side that favors Democrats, to the west side which largely votes Republican.
All political districts in the state will be redrawn soon as part of the decennial redistricting process. Cox hopes his campaign is enough to draw out both moderates and Republicans who don't feel represented in Richmond.
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Heather Michell is hoping the second time the charm, as the Republican makes her making a second run at the Virginia House of Delegates in a Special Election on January 5.
After current seatholder, Mitchell quickly became the GOP nominee, Delegate Jennifer Carroll Foy (D) said she would resign from the position to focus full-time on her run for Virginia Governor in 2021.
Mitchell lost to Carroll Foy by more than 20 points in November 2019. Since then, things have changed, to include a global pandemic, and she’s now hoping to connect with voters during an abridged election season of less than a month.
We talked with Mitchell about her campaign in this edition of the Potomac Local Podcast.
Many who have chronic pain have postponed critical trips to their doctor to seek care.
Whether it’s for a sports injury, or injury from a fall, neck, back, or side aches, Dr. Kenneth May at the Sentara Therapy Center in Woodbridge treats it all.
I had the chance to interview May, who described his innovative approach to caring for his patients. In this recent sponsored post, you can see he was able to free a Woodbridge woman from her pain just when she thought all hope was lost.
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We don’t need to tell you people have been spending more time at home recently.
With the outbreak of the new coronavirus, those who provide water and sewer to our homes have seen more items being flushed into the sewer system that shouldn’t be there.
From those “flushable” wipes that aren’t so flushable to fats, oils, and grease, we talk with Kathy Bentz, of the Prince William County Service Authority, about what you can do to save the pipes in your home and the ones in your community.
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In this edition of the Potomac Local Podcast, the group “Reopen VA” plans to hold a protest on Wednesday, calling for Gov. Ralph Northam to reopen the state’s economy after ordering closures of non-essential businesses, and schools for more than a month ago.
The protest will come as legislators will return to Richmond for a special session.
Here is a video version of the Potomac Local Podcast.
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It’s tax season and that means you’re running around the home office looking for documents, receipts, and other pieces of paper that may have fallen behind your desk over the past year.
While it’s not ideal, trust us, tax time doesn’t have to be a hassle. We talked with Potomac Local Supporting Partner Chris Peden, of Peden Accounting Services about how to best prepare for tax season.
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Heather Mitchell is the Republican candidate for who’s running for the House District 2 seat, to represent portions of Prince William and Stafford counties.
The seat is currently held by Democrat Jennifer Carroll Foy.
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Vanpools are becoming a more popular way to commute in Northern Virginia.
OmniRide’s Vanpool Alliance program has more than 600 vans registered and in use with its program. The majority of the vans use the Interstate 95/395 corridor, ferrying commuters to and from their offices in Washington, D.C., and Arlington.
However, new E-ZPass Express Lanes are set to open on I-66 in 2022, and the number of vanpools registered with the program could more than double, said program manager Joe Stainsby.
The new lanes on I-66 and new commuter parking lots along the corridor will open up new transit options for those living along that highway — slugging/ridesharing, vanpool, and commuter more bus service — options that have been widely available for I-95 commuters since the 1970s.
Standby joined me on this latest edition of the Potomac Local Podcast to talk about how vanpool work to reduce traffic congestion, and who they will play a role in the future of mobility in our region.
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On this episode of the Potomac Local Podcast, we take our reporting deeper with an interview with longtime Prince William County Realtor and one-time candidate for the Prince William Board of County Supervisors Scott Jacobs.
He’s been at the center of the debate on how to preserve the Rural Crescent — the last rural tract of land in a growing county of just over a half-million people located outside Washington, D.C. The crescent-shaped land tract encompasses an area of more than 80,000 acres stretching from Quantico Marine Corps Base to Manassas National Battlefield Park.
As we reported in June 2019, tensions were high at another meeting of Prince William County officials and residents of the Rural Crescent
Some who live there want the two-lane roads, and the land where many dairy and cattle farms used to operate, to be preserved in time.
Others — especially the farmers who used to operate but no longer do because of changing market conditions and encroachment from residential and commercial development — want to sell the land for a fair market price and leave.
All of this puts the county in the middle, trying to figure out how best to appease these constituencies while preserving the open land — something that’s becoming more difficult to find as the years pass.
