Below The Beltway

Less than a year after being appointed to the Virginia Court of Appeals, former Prince William County Circuit Court Judge LeRoy Millette has been tapped for the Virginia Supreme Court:
The judge who presided over one of the Washington area sniper trials will now be making decisions that affect people throughout Northern Virginia.
Virginia Court of Appeals [...]

Apparently, things are going so well in Prince William County right now that the government has time to worry about color schemes at gas stations:
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — Prince William County doesn’t like the color scheme on a Woodbridge gas station and has ordered the owner to replace its signs.
The owner spent $32,000 on new signs [...]

Any of you coming home from work via, or near, the I-66 corridor or have family members who are ?
Well, you’re pretty much screwed this afternoon:
Commuters heading west on Interstate 66 should plan for a long drive home. A rally in support of Sen. Barack Obama is being held at the Nissan Pavilion at 6 [...]

As I’ve stated here on many occasions, I’ve got several problems with the illegal immigration policies that the Prince William County Board of Supervisors have passed over the past year or so, but there’s no way in the world that I, or any resident of Prince William County, should stand for this nonsense:
The United Nations [...]

There was some wild weather in the Northern Virginia area last night:
Two major local school systems are closed today because of power outages from last night’s swift-moving and violent thunderstorms, which left a Fairfax County man dead, scores of trees and power lines toppled and more than 200,000 homes and businesses without electricity.
The Annandale-area man [...]

Unless you actually want to go or you enjoy being stuck in traffic, my recommendation is to stay away from the area near the Nissan Pavilion tomorrow afternoon:
Join Barack Obama at a rally in Bristow on Thursday, June 5th.
 
Rally with Barack Obama
Nissan Pavillion
7800 Cellar Door Drive
Bristow, VA
Thursday, June 5th
Doors Open: 3:00 p.m.
Program Starts: 6:00 p.m.
The [...]

When I first moved to Northern Virginia, I lived in an apartment not far from Tysons Corner. It was a zoo then, and it’s only gotten worse over the years.
Now, it sounds like they want to turn the whole place into Fairfax County’s version of Ballston:
The transformation of Tysons Corner from a car-dominated tangle of [...]

The Examiner reports that Prince William County Police Chief took actions which seem to confirm that the Board of Supervisors did indeed weaken the so-called Rule of Law Resolution:
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Police Chief Charlie Deane on Wednesday revoked portions of Prince William County’s policy that directed officers to check the legal status of [...]

It wasn’t a total repeal, but the Prince William Board of Supervisors did modify a key provision of the so-called “Rule of Law” Resolution last night:
The Prince William County supervisors abolished a key part of the county’s illegal-immigration policy last night by directing police officers to question criminal suspects about their immigration status only after [...]

From today’s Washington Post:
Hundreds of foreign-born families have pulled their children from Prince William County public schools and enrolled them in nearby Fairfax County, Arlington County and Alexandria since the start of the school year, imposing a new financial burden on those inner suburbs in a time of lean budgets.
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“The resolution is clearly working,” said [...]