Monday notes
Purple bin arrives: Previously Richmond Highway-area residents had to go to Lorton or the city of Alexandria to drop off their glass, but now’s there’s a new option. A new purple recycling dumpster was dropped of at the Mount Vernon Governmental Center on Friday, one of two added in the county.
Reader more on Fairfax County’s Facebook page.
Ebbin on special session, lieutenant governor, minimum wage: State Sen. Adam Ebbin, whose district includes part of the Richmond Highway area, appeared on WAMU’s The Politics Hour radio show last week. Ebbin gave his thoughts on the short-lived special session on gun control, was critical of Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, and said the minimum age in Virginia must increase.
The transcript and audio can be found here.
Mary Thonen Awards nominations: The Southeast Fairfax Development Corporation (SFDC) is asking for nominations for the 2019 Mary Thonen Richmond Highway Beautification Awards. The awards program recognizes local businesses for contributing to “Richmond Highway beautification in the form of landscape improvements,” according to SFDC.
Get more info and learn how your business can participate on SFDC.org.
What Senator Ebbin and others in his political circle are telling you is intellectual chicanery.
In actual fact, the bills Northam proposed are nearly identical to bills that were proposed during regular session in January. They were heard in committee – open to everyone, mind you – and voted down. To propose them again in special session – with the same legislature – is the very definition of insanity. Political theater, costing taxpayers nearly $45K.
Senator Surovell recently shared research that showed that gun control DOES NOT reduce violence (in case Chicago and DC and Baltimore weren’t evidence enough).
Your legislators here in Northern Virginia are playing fast and loose with the facts. What they aren’t telling you is that they’re willing to confiscate ONE tool from a dangerous individual while leaving that individual on the streets. They’re not telling you that they’ve FAILED to assure in their bills that vindictiveness against honest citizens is not punished, and that vindictiveness can cost thousands of dollars to the innocent. They’re not telling you that criminals don’t BUY their handguns, so their “universal” “background” checks simply don’t apply there.
They’re not telling you this because they don’t want to do the difficult work of addressing root causes; they’re simply satisfied with passing more ineffective laws.