Is it a coincidence that Benedict Arnold betrayed his country and last week Ken Reid betrayed his biggest supporters, his long time friends and confidants, and his county, when he vote for the Silver Line extension into Loudoun County? Like Benedict …
Since my house hasn’t had power since Friday evening, and won’t have it again until at least Tuesday afternoon, I am staying in a hotel in PA because on Saturday there were no hotel rooms in the Leesburg area. No rooms from Winchester to…
For Ken Reid, it’s time to decide, base or bounty? Ken Reid is positioned in the eyes of many a metro-watcher as the last frontier, the ultimate swing vote for all to watch, wonder and wait. Many thought that he was firmly against metro, but…
I addition to paying $1.2 BILLION for metro, Chairman Scott York and Supervisor Ralph Buona are now pushing for a new, huge, road, project, connecting route 7 in Loudoun to route 95 in Prince William. Just don’t call it the Outer Beltway, it …
Or are they really just this misguided and misinformed? Their latest scheme is to vote for metro, most likely at their June 19th meeting, if they have the five votes necessary for passage. After that, they will try to figure out how to pay for it…
The bad news about Metro continues. In addition to being racist, with 97% of employees being Black and from PG county and DC, it’s also dangerous. A good blog about the many metro problems is here. And some people in Loudoun still think w…
Loudoun county Board of Supervisors has finally reached the point of figuring how to pay for bringing two miles of metro to Loudoun county. Staff presented the tax increase options to the board earlier this week. These increases include: Commercial…
Blue Ridge district supervisor, Janet Clarke, is asking some very good questions about metro rail, and the cost of bringing it to Loudoun, while Chairman York objects to her questions and calls her ideas ”goofy”. It’s”goofy…
Extending Metro a couple of miles into Loudoun will solve all our problems, according to the cheerleaders at the Washington Post, Democrats and developers. It will move us into the bright shining uplands of the future, out of the slough of redneck is…
Today I read this excellent letter to the editor, written by David Dickinson, a resident of Catoctin District in Loudoun. By Mr. Dickinson’s calculations, if metro is approved, it will cost Loudoun commuters $25 a day in tolls to commute to D…