In the race for Virginia’s 11th Congressional District (Fairfax City and portions of Fairfax and Prince William Counties), moderate incumbent Tom Davis (R) is up against Andrew Hurst (D) and Ferdinando Greco (IG). Davis is seeking his seventh term representing the 11th District in the House.
Virginia Statewide Ballot Issues, 2006
Citizens of the Commonwealth of Virginia will be voting on three state constitutional amendments on November 7. These amendments would each add, remove, or change text in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. This year, they range from small, ‘routine’ modifications (Questions #2 and #3) to a major addition addressing an extremely controversial issue (Question #1).
Fairfax County Bond Referendums, 2006
Citizens of Fairfax County, Virginia, will be voting on two county bond referendums on November 7. These referendums, if passed, will authorize the county to ‘borrow’ money from bond purchasers which would have to repaid with interest at a later date. Bonds are traditionally issued to fund large, expensive capital projects.
The 9/10/2001 Attitude
On 9/10/2001, it was a different world. Terrorism was something that, even against United States’ interests, usually happened elsewhere—U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in 2000. Only one example of foreign terrorism on U.S. soil comes to mind from before 9/11: the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993. But that attack, which killed six and injured over 1,000, just didn’t seem to affect us much.
Five Years On: More Victories Than Setbacks
It has been nearly five years since the 09/11/2001 terrorist attacks which plunged the United States of America—and much of the world, for that matter—into a war without precedent. Five years since smoke rose over the ruins of the World Trade Center in New York, a demolished section of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and a field near Skanksville, Pennsylvania where the last plane hijacked that day went down without hitting its target.
Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.