A transportation solution is not difficult
Let's stop the arguing and get the transportation issue settled.The unintended consequences of the governor's suggested transportation "fix" could well be that nothing happens at all. That would have political repercussions and only delay needed transportation projects in Hampton Roads and Northern Virginia. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Biofuels Are in the Fight to Stay
The open debate about how we should respond to our own spoliation of the atmosphere is a good sign in the fight against global warming. We are no longer arguing about who caused what, but now, and more urgently, how we can reverse the carbon tide.Biofuels are powerful tools that will wean us from petroleum and usher in a greener future for generations to come. Some say there are no meaningful alternatives to fossil energy as every substitute seems to be loaded with problems. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Nobody home
Since the housing market started trending southward, a move which became evident with startling clarity last midsummer, we have twice suggested in this space that the board of supervisors investigate opportunities that the collapse presents for a workforce housing initiative. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Fauquier's new green opportunity
As does the rest of the world, Fauquier County today faces a critical situation unprecedented since life itself began on our now steadily warming planet | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Paying the piper
The United States has been enjoying a play now, pay later party. Now we must pay the piper — in Leesburg, Richmond and Washington. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
One down, three to go
College for me has been more or less what I expected. I learned a few things about people and my areas of study that I did not know before, but I cannot say that I am profoundly changed. Yet. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Authority offers light at the end of the tunnel
R. Ron Jordan, of Advantus Strategies, made an interesting presentation to the board of supervisors at a work session last week. The presentation was sponsored by Supervisor Terry Nyhous (Center District) and was titled “Community Development Authorities (CDA) and the Public/Private Education and Infrastructure Act.” | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Public benefit
Occasional columnist John Griffin took local land-conservation policies to task in a column here two weeks ago, and conservationist Hope Porter defended the initiatives — as she has done so ably for many years — in a rebuttal letter last week. | 0 comments - ›› more ...
A real need?
Do we really need a county spokesperson to convince the voters to pass a use tax on ourselves? | 0 comments - ›› more ...
Flower power
Warrenton was the world's first Community of Peace, so declared by Mayor George Fitch on Sept. 10, 2002. The purpose of a community of peace, according to those behind the idea — and it was founded right here in Warrenton — is to encourage folks to be part of the solution, not part of the problem, by creating positive actions and acts of kindness. | 0 comments - ›› more ...