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• Dave Marsden Causes Cry for a Robert Whitehead

  Published: September 27, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Elections 2007, General Assembly, Northern Virginia, Politics, Va House 41, Va Sen 37

  a blow to the governance of Virginia. Compare that to how things work now… Our elected officials will not say the words “raise” and “taxes” in the same sentence. One bunch goes on about how we need more revenue to meet state needs. The other bunch simply say we don’t need to raise taxes. Neither side is too

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• Before the Storm Clouds, Nothing but 'Blue Skies'

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Before, The, Storm, Clouds, Nothing, But, Blue, Skies, Wyoming, Dick Cheney, Mary Cheney, Lynne Cheney, Canon Digital Cameras, Nebraska, Cbs Corporation, Elizabeth Cheney, Katurah Vaughan, Mary Matalin, Norman Rockwell, Northern Virginia, Good Morning America, National Endowm

  Lynne Cheney wants time to stand still. Not now, not in this present tense of bloodshed and bile, where she is the stalwart wife of a vice president vilified as a warmonger. She wants the past back, she wants then .

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• N.Va. Trash Regulators Struggle With Repeat Offenders

  Published: October 6, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: N Va, Trash, Regulators, Struggle, Repeat, Offenders, Fairfax, Ishmael Wright, Charles D Forbes, Prince William County, Loudoun County, Ashburn Virginia, Tom Smith, Belmont, Mclean Virginia, Monica Gorman, Northern Virginia, Washington Dulles International Airport, Fairfax

  Over the past year, a trash company with more than 40,000 Northern Virginia customers has been cited for dozens of safety, environmental and licensing violations and has refused, at times, to respond to regulators' complaints.

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• All the Utility of Luxury Brands, Less the Cost

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: All, The, Utility, Luxury, Brands, Less, Cost, Mazda Cx 9, Manhattan, New Jersey, Tarrytown, Delaware, Virginia, Audi Ag, Bmw Ag, Mazda Motor Corporation, Mercedes Benz International Inc, Arlington, George Washington Bridge, Hudson River, New York City, Northern Virginia

  TARRYTOWN, N.Y. Here began the weirdest drive I've ever taken in a test vehicle.

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• Koreans, Hispanics Work for Harmony

  Published: October 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Koreans, Hispanics, Work, For, Harmony, Thomas Yoon, Carlos Yoon, Fairfax, Gerardo Avila, Daniel Choi, Kil Cho, Lorena Portillo, Ronald Tobar, Mexico, Fermin Soto, Lyndhurst, Northern Virginia, Ricardo Garcia, Shirlington, Silver Spring, South America, U S Census Bureau, Unive

  At Korean-owned Super H Mart in Fairfax, where Hispanic workers bag groceries and Korean employees run the tills, a window into the increasingly diverse and complex business landscape of the Washington region can be seen through the store's 10 Rules For A Happy Workplace.

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• Green Memorial Concept Growing in Virginia

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Green, Memorial, Concept, Growing, Virginia, Axel Baudach, Middleburg, Germany, United States, Jack Lowe, Northern Virginia, Terry Clark, U S Federal Trade Commission, California, Maryland, South Carolina, Ashburn Virginia, Asia, Bob Fells, Centreville, Europe, Gary Hosafl

  The expression "living memorial" has never been so literal.

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• A Tougher Line on Government Contracting

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tougher, Line, Government, Contracting, Dyncorp International Llc, Iraq, Greg Lagana, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice, Deborah Avant, Erik Prince, Falls Church, Jayanti Menches, Northern Virginia, Peter Singer, Steven L Schooner, Colombia, Federa

  Will Blackwater USA's travails spread to the two Northern Virginia companies who share a controversial $3.6 billion contract to provide security services in Iraq?

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• A Tougher Line on Government Contracting

  Published: October 8, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Tougher, Line, Government, Contracting, Dyncorp International Llc, Iraq, Greg Lagana, United States, Blackwater Usa, Baghdad, Condoleezza Rice, Deborah Avant, Erik Prince, Falls Church, Jayanti Menches, Northern Virginia, Peter Singer, Steven L Schooner, Colombia, Federa

  Will Blackwater USA's travails spread to the two Northern Virginia companies who share a controversial $3.6 billion contract to provide security services in Iraq?

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• Latinos Unite Across Classes Against Curbs on Immigration

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Latinos, Unite, Across, Classes, Against, Curbs, Immigration, Prince William County, Maryland, Jesus Calva, Manassas, Ricardo Juarez, Virginia, Gilbert Mejia, Northern Virginia, Ruben Andrade, United States, North Carolina, Annandale, Carlos Alvarado, Central America, Dona

  Jos Marinay wears tailored suits, plays racquetball twice a week and displays photos of family-owned racehorses in his Annandale office. For years, the Colombian-born businessman thought he had little in common with the area's illegal immigrants, often villagers from Mexico and Central America w...

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• Cuccinelli-Oleszek: A Base GOTV Election

  Published: October 9, 2007, 10:00 am

  Tags: Elections, Elections 2007, Northern Virginia, Politics, Va Sen 37

  have heard we are having a Virginia State Senate election in Senate district 37. However, the odds are just as good that even if you know there will be an election, you might think it is uncontested. You see, some of us are being ignored by some of the candidates. Two recent events-one that did happen, and one that did not-confirms what

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• Heated Crossfire As Parties Angle For Power in Va.

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Heated, Crossfire, Parties, Angle, For, Power, George W Bush, Tim Kaine, U S Republican Party, Bob Mcdonnell, Mark Warner, William Howell, Virginia, Northern Virginia, George Allen, Walter Stosch, Warrenton, Forbes Media Llc, Bill Bolling, Bill S Day Jr, Charles Col

  RICHMOND, Oct. 8 -- The battle for control of the Virginia General Assembly intensified Monday as top Republican and Democratic leaders traded barbs over who is responsible for the strength of the state's economy and whether President Bush should be a factor in voters' decisions this year.

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• Heated Crossfire As Parties Angle For Power in Va.

  Published: October 9, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Heated, Crossfire, Parties, Angle, For, Power, George W Bush, Tim Kaine, U S Republican Party, Bob Mcdonnell, Mark Warner, William Howell, Virginia, Northern Virginia, George Allen, Walter Stosch, Warrenton, Forbes Media Llc, Bill Bolling, Bill S Day Jr, Charles Col

  RICHMOND, Oct. 8 -- The battle for control of the Virginia General Assembly intensified Monday as top Republican and Democratic leaders traded barbs over who is responsible for the strength of the state's economy and whether President Bush should be a factor in voters' decisions this year.

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• Day Laborers Squeezed on Two Sides

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Day, Laborers, Squeezed, Two, Sides, Virginia, Maryland, Vicente Crespo, German Reyes, Michael Histon, Tona Cravioto, Mexico, Annandale, Central America, Eduardo Miguel, Northern Virginia, Steven Vermillion, Bolivia, Fairfax County, National Association Of Home Builders

  By sunup every day last month, the parking lot between a filling station and a paint store in Fairfax County was scattered with Latino men, many wearing clean white shirts and pants in hopes of landing a day's work painting apartment walls. They yawned, joked and sipped coffee, but their faces were...

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• Va. Poll Gives Mark Warner Wide Lead in Senate Race

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Poll, Gives, Mark, Warner, Wide, Lead, Senate, Race, Virginia, Jim Gilmore, Mark Warner, Tom Davis, Hillary Clinton, U S Republican Party, U S Senate, Barack Obama, Rudolph Giuliani, George W Bush, Northern Virginia, Fairfax County, Iraq, Massachusetts, North Carolina

  Former Virginia governor Mark R. Warner holds a 30-point lead over his two potential Republican rivals in next year's U.S. Senate race, boosting Democrats' chances of expanding their congressional majority and highlighting the party's ascendancy in the state, according to a new Washington Post poll.

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• Inova Looks Beyond Local Dominance

  Published: October 12, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Inova, Looks, Beyond, Local, Dominance, Fairfax, Northern Virginia, Virginia, Inova Health System, Arlington, Cleveland, Eugene Trani, George Washington, Richmond, Steven Pearlstein, Cedars Sinai Health System, Fairfax County, Fairfax Hospital, Hughes Medical Institute, May

  One of the most successful businesses in the Washington area isn't technically a business at all -- it's a not-for-profit named Inova Health System. Over the past 40 years, what started out as a loose affiliation of three community hospitals in Fairfax County has transformed itself into the dominant...

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