Massive Development Proposal Hidden from County Residents?

update:meeting will be held at Piney Branch Elementary School on Thursday evening at 7:00 pm

 

Lets rewind, back to 2006,  to a little ole, 7,000 thousand home development called Brentswood in the Gainesville/Brentsville District.  If I close my eyes, I can still see this amazing convergence of Republicans and Democrats coming out, officially, to oppose the first incarnation of Brentswood.  Who was at the forefront leading the charge to oppose THAT massive rezoning?  Well, my dear friend, Corey Stewart, who, at the time, was only an Occoquan Supervisor, not the big powerful Chairman that he is today.

Get ready people, October 9th might be go time!

Citizens knew that Wally Covington was making promises during his close primary with Jeanine Lawson.  One of them was to the residents of Victory Lakes.  What was the promise you may be asking?  A new high school.  Who cares if you have to screw an entire county to get it, a promise made is a promise kept during election season!

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The tooth fairy and other financial indicators

The tooth fairy has gotten a lot more generous than when I was a child.  I can remember getting a dime under my pillow for every lost tooth.  Man, did I get cheated.  Do you know that the average tooth fairy sprinking is now $3.00 per tooth?  I am no spring chicken so perhaps the now/then is pretty stark.  A lot can happen in a half century.

In more recent times, we have been asked to compare 2008 to now.  The entire Republican  convention tried to paint a dismal picture of our well-being.   Often that question came  in the form of …ASK YOURSELF, ARE YOU BETTER OFF NOW, AFTER 4 YEARS OF BARACK OBAMA OR IN 2008?  The Republicans would have us believe we are worse off.

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