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Criticized economic development official leaving Loudoun job

Loudoun County 's economic development director announced his resignation Monday amid growing criticism from business leaders and county officials over his steadfast emphasis on rural quality-of-life issues over corporate relocations. Lawrence S. ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  23 Nov 2009

Loudoun economic development director resigns

Loudoun County 's economic development director announced his resignation Monday, saying the county's new administrator needed a "fresh start." Lawrence S. Rosenstrauch, who has served as the county's chief economic adviser for the past 13 ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  23 Nov 2009

Some Washington area homeowner groups struggling financially

As planned communities have grown in Washington's outer suburbs, some of their homeowners associations have evolved from groups that handle mundane tasks such as collecting trash and scolding the owners of unkempt lawns into quasi-governments that ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Washington Post Company

Planned bowhunts for deer in Va. parks called ÃÂbarbaric'

Planned deer hunts in two Fairfax County public parks are riling animal-rights advocates and residents who say the county's new bow-and-arrow deer-culling program is inhumane and dangerous. Starting before dawn Monday, a handful of archers from Suburban ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Humane Society of the United States

New genetics research institute planned for Fairfax

A $200 million genetics research facility planned for Fairfax County could bring with it thousands of jobs over the next decade and spur spin-off businesses that focus on the fast-growing field of personalized medicine, Virginia officials and ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Institutes of Health,  George Washington University,  George Mason,  Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Fiscal outlook grim for 2 Fairfax agencies

Fairfax County parks and libraries appear to face the deepest budget cuts among county agencies as officials begin the process of slashing jobs and programs next year to make up another projected multimillion-dollar shortfall. Fairfax County Executive ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Martin Luther King, Jr.

With Fort Hood, Virginia Tech confronts link to another tragedy

"We were like, 'Oh, jeez, not again,' " said Liana Bayne, a freshman communications major who was in charge of writing about the shooting for the campus newspaper, the Collegiate Times. The paper's student editors quickly re-framed their story to ...

From JENNA JOHNSON AND DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Virginia Tech,  The Pentagon

Republican House gains intensify competition in N. Virginia

Fresh from an election in which Republicans knocked off several entrenched Democrats in the Virginia House of Delegates, the state's GOP is poised to usher in a new era of tougher two-party politics in Northern Virginia, political observers say. The ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Robert F McDonnell,  Bob McDonnell,  U.S. Department of Justice

Fewer holds barred in struggle to curb Canada geese

The end is near for five dozen resident Canada geese that make their home in a park near a Fairfax County landfill. This Story In struggle to control geese, fewer holds barred Geese Police target troublesome waterfowl For years, the geese have settled ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Central Intelligence Agency

A case of mistaken assumptions about Deeds and taxes

Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ...

From DEREK KRAVITZ, The Washington Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert F McDonnell,  U.S. Republican Party,  Creigh Deeds,  United States Department of the Treasury

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