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Loudoun Supervisor Geary Higgins (R-Catoctin) wants his constituents to be assured he is a real red-blooded baseball fan. In his latest “news”letter he writes:

Free Loudoun Hounds Bumper Stickers

Loudoun County will soon be the home of the Loudoun Hounds, a minor league sports franchise. If you, like me, think it will be great to have a local ball club to root for, contact my office for a free Loudoun Hounds bumper sticker. They look just like the image below, scaled to around four inches across.

(Love the signature, Geary!) Actually, whether Loudoun will or will not be the home of the Hounds depends entirely on a highly controversial rezoning request that the Board has yet to vote on — a little point Geary just might have mentioned. Continue reading →

As we all know, such frivolous programs as the Loudoun drug court, arts and cultural funding, the master gardeners and urban extension program, and other such frivolities axed by the all-Republican Board of Supervisors last year, are not “core functions of government.” That was the mantra the supervisors kept repeating in explaining their showy display of fiscal rectitude.

However, providing repeated free vacation trips for the Board’s chairman, Scott York (R-At  Large, until they find him) is apparently a very core function.

Last year our well-traveled chairman took no fewer than five official foreign trips. Pretty good for a little-old county official.

York’s frequent flier program began in April, Continue reading →

Once again, the all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors has shown it can provide excellent constituent service . . . as long as the constituents happen to belong to the commercial development industry.

As reported earlier this month, the developers of the “Loudoun Station” development had an urgent need to violate Loudoun’s longstanding zoning ordinances governing the erection of advertising signs by plunking down along the Greenway a 27-foot high freestanding sign for their development.

That’s the height of a three-story house. Continue reading →

Well, our all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors has hit the ground the running for the new year, beginning with the usual deluge of “news”[sic]letters produced by their well-paid political consultants, all scrupulously avoiding mentioning what they actually are doing to give away your county to the commercial development industry but offering ever so helpful advice on such topics as:

• how to safely recycle our Christmas trees (Supervisor Janet Clarke, R-Blue Ridge) Continue reading →

Doing an uncanny imitation of the national Republican Party’s fiscal policies, our all-Republican Loudoun Board of Supervisors for the past year has been boldly declaring it has no intention of actually paying for the consequences of the county’s explosive growth that they themselves were responsible for. Continue reading →