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The Loudoun County Board of Supervisors had its first day back together after its August recess, apparently with much sniping and gnashing of teeth.  So much for coming back refreshed.  I’ve been out and about and have had several first hand reports coming in, as well as reading a few of the news stories up, which are getting lots of traffic and commentary.  See the Leesburg Today and LTM websites for details.

The BOS approved the courthouse displays.  Thank God that’s over with.  Bring on Jesus and the Jedis!

Susan Buckley announced she will not be running again.  While I have disagreed with her strongly on school and tax issues, she has been a thoughtful moderating influence on the BOS and will be missed.  The potential replacement options so far have been truly nauseating.

The BOS denied the ginned up stunt from Hatrick, et al to give them more money to avoid the furloughs that they drummed up to cause such a later epidsode to develop.  Thank God the BOS did not fall for it (well, except for Buckley, McGimsey, and Miller).  Kelly Burk actually seems to understand a bit now about her obvious conflict of interest, and said she would recuse herself from voting, but then tried to lobby for approval until Scott York explained to her that refraining from debate is also part of recusal.  Score another one for the BOS over the increasingly inept and inneffective School Board.

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Sep 08th by Loudoun Insider

Man, after an armed robbery of a Subway a couple weeks ago, we now have another fast food joint and innocent apartments under attack.  What’s in the water there these days?

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Sep 07th by Loudoun Insider

I am very conservative fiscally, but also have a healthy dose of humanitarianism in my blood, and a strong respect for labor, having grown up in a union household.  Of course government interventionism is never a good answer, but corporate America really needs to learn to be human again (maybe they’ll somehow find it themselves).  Greed has always been a factor, but it is undeniable that the gaps between corporate titans and the working man are growing by leaps and bounds lately.  While I hardly ever agree with these columinists, the op-eds by Harold Meyerson and E.J. Dionne in today’s WaPo got me thinking alot about the future of the middle class in the country.  It doesn’t look real good.  And please, spare me the reflexive conservative orthodoxy, just try to think about this objectively a bit.  I’m off to make a few extra bucks myself today.

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Sep 06th by Loudoun Insider

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Sep 03rd by Too Conservative

The comments in the post below got all off track on the proposed Chesapeake Bay Ordinance.  I’ve copied the Ches Bay comments here – please continue this discussion in this thread.  I’ve been busy busy busy lately – little time for TC!

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Sep 03rd by Loudoun Insider

The Andrea McGimsey summer recess publicity tour continues unabated, with a gushing editorial in the LTM that is generating some fierce debate in comments.  While many accuse the LTM of a rightward tilt with the arrival of Managing Editor Nicholas Graham and new partner Bill Dean, the Arundels who own it are firmly in the enviro Middleburg crowd and will presumably back McG to the bitter end.

Apparently McG sent out a siren call to the Loudoun Sustainibility email list for help, producing a few folks, including one that seems like the Earth Goddess herself or one of her county paid aides (remember, monitoring blogs is a defined work task for McGimsey aides!).  Here’s my message – every time you and your backers whip out some self promotional BS I’ll be there to set the record straight.  Hypocrites like this need to be exposed and sent packing.  Rather than a tireless advocate for the environment as alleged by the LTM editorial staff, she is a self promoting shill who is one of the worst things to happen to the local environmental movement.  She has single handedly soured many reasonable people on common sense environmental causes with her hypocritical methods.  She sure could dish it out when on the other side, but can’t handle it at all when exposed for doing the same corner cutting, selfish things.  You people want to keep escalating this?  Go right ahead.

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Aug 29th by Loudoun Insider

An opinion piece I wrote for the Daily Caller.

Thoughts?

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Aug 27th by Too Conservative

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Aug 27th by Too Conservative