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The 3 Minute Interview: Zoom Room Rockville owner Steve Mulder
Taylor Holland
Updated: Sat, Feb 16, 2013
Mulder is owner of Zoom Room Rockville, a dog training center and canine social club that offers classes for pet owners in an indoor dog gym to increase the animals' agility and fitness. Where'd you get the idea for your dog gym? I was a federal government lobbyist for more than 20 years and...
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Alexandria waterfront opponents vow to keep fighting
Taylor Holland
Updated: Sat, Feb 16, 2013
Opponents of Alexandria's planned waterfront redevelopment vow to keep fighting as the City Council tries a do-over of last year's controversial vote. Their outcry stems from an announcement that city officials will vote a second time on the waterfront plan, first passed last year, to appease...
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Fairfax County plans attack against inchworms
Taylor Holland
Updated: Thu, Feb 14, 2013
Fairfax County officials are expecting this year's inchworm epidemic to be so widespread that they're launching an aerial attack against them. For the first time in a decade, the county plans to bring in a helicopter to drop pesticides on the worms, which experts fear are killing maple,...
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Fairfax City looks to bolster number of red-light cameras
Taylor Holland
Updated: Tue, Feb 12, 2013
Fairfax City officials want to more than double the number of red-light cameras in the area and hope they'll generate enough revenue to create additional police positions. City Council members will convene Tuesday to discuss plans to expand their red-light program to include two cameras each...
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Red-light camera tickets double in Rockville
Taylor Holland
Updated: Mon, Feb 11, 2013
Rockville red-light cameras nabbed nearly 18,000 drivers last year, a 105 percent spike from 2011 that some say was derived from unfairly cashing in on uninformed drivers. The city issued 17,794 tickets based on incidents caught by the cameras in 2012, an increase from the 8,638 tickets given...
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Fairfax County residents fight I-95 ramp, sound walls
Taylor Holland
Published: Sun, Feb 10, 2013
Fairfax residents already infuriated by Virginia's proposal to build a highway ramp in their neighborhood are now angered by the state's plan to accompany it with sound walls. The problem stems from a Virginia Department of Transportation project that calls for the construction of a new...
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Cops request new station as Tysons Corner expands
Taylor Holland
Updated: Sat, Feb 9, 2013
Fairfax County police fear the planned expansion of Tysons Corner will exhaust their already dwindling resources in the area and are urging officials to build them a new station in what is expected to become the county's new downtown. Currently, officers from the McLean district respond to...
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