Author: Bob Rayner
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Fork Union Has Produced 117 Pro Football Players
by James Wyatt Whitehead V One of my favorite times of the year is after Thanksgiving. That is when the playoffs for the Virginia High School League football championship thunders into overdrive. For fifteen years I had one of the best seats for high school football as the public address announcer for Briar Woods…
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New VPAP Modelling Shows Why Virginia Republicans Are Losing Elections
by Shaun Kenney There’s a common theme among Virginia Republican number crunchers that Fairfax County is the snake that swallowed the bowling ball. More accurately, that no matter how well Republicans might seem to do across the Commonwealth, when 1.3 million Fairfax County residents make their voices heard, that’s a massive fraction of the nearly…
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Ed Department Office of Civil Rights Rules Against Fairfax County
by Asra Q. Nomani FAIRFAX COUNTY, Va. — Tears of joy came to the eyes of special education advocates Callie Oettinger and Debra Tisler as they read a much-anticipated decision by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights. For years, they have been advocating — to deaf ears in Fairfax County Public Schools…