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As a portly man, D.C. Thomas chuckles when he talks about what a big target he would make walking across a parking lot, but he turns somber when he acknowledges how close he might have been Friday to becoming the serial sniper’s next victim. Thomas was eating breakfast at Waffle House when he heard a…

Perhaps we were wrong about opposing the Washington, D.C., City Council’s effort to begin charging a commuter tax. When considering where the tax money from hard-working Northern Virginia commuters goes these days, we feel it’s time to switch sides in the debate over the District’s right to tax the income of city workers who live…

WASHINGTON — Eight months after Sept. 11, top House leaders are struggling to devise a plan to repopulate the House if a catastrophic terrorist attack kills its members. Meeting for the first time Thursday, a bipartisan special committee contemplated what would happen if only a few House members survived an attack and were faced with…

This Wednesday, the state will lend an ear to what you think should be done to our region’s roads. Well, maybe half an ear. They probably don’t want to hear requests to bring Metrorail to Woodbridge. Some elected officials laugh at that idea. With the dwindling cash in VDOT’s pockets, officials on the Commonwealth Transportation…

We often complain about the gridlock and the rising price tag associated with the Springfield Interchange. It will be more than just Virginians complaining later this month when the eight-year project hits a key stage of construction. In order to piece together a major highway bridge on the new Mixing Bowl, workers will be forced…

Manassas school officials sent out letters last week to 224 Osbourn High School students enrolled in honors courses encouraging them convert to an Advanced Placement course instead. This fall, five honors courses can be switched to Advanced Placement if the student chooses. The courses are: United States/Virginia history, senior-level government, calculus, English and art. A…