Day: June 12, 2012

Don’t make plans for a going away party yet.  Reece Collins might not be going anywhere.  I never understood why he wasn’t grandfathered in, but I am not a lawyer.

Supervisor Pete Candland wants to know 3 things from County Attorney Angela Horan.  Ms Horan might be on leave.  However, here is the latest from insidenova.com: (bold mine)

Gainesville Supervisor Pete Candland has sent a letter to Prince William County Attorney Angela Horan asking whether 11^th hour amendments to the recent discretionary fund resolution passed last week by the Prince William Board of County Supervisors will result in an improper dismissal of Collins.

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It should not come as a shock to learn that we are not comfortable with accusing our elected officials of financial malfeasance.  I have seen no proof of actual wrong-doing. I have not been looking for it.  I have seen some quantum leaps taken on various blogs to “prove” things that to me, haven’t been proven.   The more those hiding on blogs finger point, the more uncomfortable many of us who are now siding with Mr. Candland will become.  I can’t imagine that Candland  would be comfortable with these accusations either.  His resolution contained no finger pointing, only solutions to problems residents have been grousing about for decades.

Today the Sheriff has an expose that is more on supervisor analysis than on pointing fingers and calling out people over supposed transgressions regarding discretionary funds.  I am glad to see the accusations stop.  However, I particularly enjoyed him taking the chairman to task because I agree. The Chairman bungled the entire episode on June 5.  I have no beef with the  supervisors other than they voted  yes on Jenkins’ gotcha rocket docket amendments.

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Sister Simone Campbell represents nuns who have gone rogue.  Sister Simone particularly has gone after Congress for its neglignence of the poor.  Stephen Colbert thinks she has been to a wimple burning party.

Meanwhile, another nun talks back.  Sister Anne Curtis explains how American nuns went from being the good girls of the Catholic Church — the very epitome of faithful — to the subject of headlines around the world calling them rebels.Read More

Washington Post:

A Virginia teenager who was scheduled to be deporteda few days after her high school graduation earned a last-minute reprieve Monday afternoon. Heydi Mejia, 18, and her mother, Dora Aldana, 40, were granted a one-year deferral by the Department of Homeland Security.

Mejia and Aldana, the subjects of a story in The Washington Post on Monday, were prepared to leave for Guatemala this week. Mejia was 4 when her mother brought her to the United States across the Rio Grande, and she graduated with honors from Meadowbrook High School in Richmond on Friday. She had planned to go to college, until immigration officials came to her family’s two-bedroom apartment in December, turning her senior year into a countdown to deportation.

The one-year reprieve allows her a chance to enroll in college and get a part-time job in cosmetology, as she had planned. Her attorney, Ricky Malik, has filed a motion with Immigration and Customs Enforcement to reopen her case, which could lead to a dismissal of the deportation order or a longer deferral.

“It has been an overwhelming week, for sure,” Mejia said Monday. “I’ve had every emotion, and now I just feel so relieved and so lucky.

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