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Spotsylvania Ranks Way Up on Tourism Sales and Income Despite Revenue Slump

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Talk about finding some silver lining in a cloud when we need to hear it:FLS:By PAMELA GOULDTourists spent nearly $199 million in Spotsylvania last year, earning the county 18th place for spending among Virginia’s 134 localities.The $198.7 million spen…



Spotsylvania Supervisors Cut Spending!? Whaddayaknow!

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Sep 24th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

While it shouldn’t need to be an “announcement” that the BOS did the right thing financially by ordering cuts across the board by as much as TEN percent. In modern-age Spotsylvania, it seems to be a rare thing. Kudos to the yea-sayers that cuts can a…



To Tax or Not to tax, that is the City Council’s question

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 22nd, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

Matt Kelly had a good post on his blog Question Everything today.  It raises the question as to whether a government should raise taxes to keep up with the services we’ve come to enjoy.  My point as a conservative is that new and more taxes are NOT the answer.  His position as a fiscal moderate-leaning-liberal […]



Stafford County Government: A Schoolyard Bully?

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 21st, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics, Stafford

From the Free Lance-Star today:
Sally O’Keefe writes:
The story of 81-year-old Charlie Williams having to go before the Board of Zoning Appeals so he can put his own horse on his own property is a perfect illustration of the new face of Stafford County government: overly regulatory, intrusive, and restrictive [“Farmer, friends test Stafford ordinance,” Sept. […]



Spotsylvania County is McCain/Palin Country!

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Do you know how I know The Fredericksburg Area is going to go HUGE for McCain?The Spotsylvania Country Republican Committee executive board spent eight hours today installing massive signs all over the county for John McCain for president and Rob Wittm…



Spotsylvania, Virginia is McCain Country!

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 20th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics, Spotsylvania, Stafford

Spotsylvania is McCain country! campaign signs are everywhere now!



The Largest Area GOP Event in Decades is in Fredericksburg Oct 2 at the EXPO Center!

By From http://www.spotsygop.com/blogger.html • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Palin-Biden debate for the vice presidency live via Satellite on jumbo TV’s. FREE admission.Thousands of attendees.Press.Bloggers…. and some VERY special guests!Learn all about it on http://www.fredgop.com/. Be there in person Thursday October 2,…



The Biggest Republican Event in Fredericksburg in a Decade

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 19th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics, Spotsylvania, Stafford

 The Palin-Biden debate for the vice presidency live via Satellite on jumbo TV’s.
 FREE admission. Thousands of attendees. Press. Bloggers. and some VERY special guests!
 Learn all about it on www.FredGOP.com
 Be there in person Thursday October 2, 2008 from 7pm till?
 At the Fredericksburg EXPO and Conference Center in Celebrate Virginia.
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Kybecca’s Kyle Snyder Nearly Burned at the Stake on Local Blog

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 16th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local, Politics

City of Fredericksburg Councilman Matt Kelly’s “Question Everything” blog got exactly what its namesake implies over the past few days, but it’s turned into a cyberspace lynching of interim councilman wannabe Kyle Snyder, co-owner of Kybecca wine stores.
Recently resigned Ward 1 Councilman Marv Dixon left mid-term to care for his ailing family members back in California.  […]



Pentagon Memorial Opening

By From http://rappahannockred.wordpress.com • Sep 11th, 2008 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Just testing out photoblogging from the ole Iphone… here we are at 7am.