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Tomorrow, February 5 and Saturday, February 6, the Mount Vernon area is expected to get between 15 and 24 inches of snow.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for Fairfax County, from 10 a.m. Friday until 10 p.m. Saturday. More information regarding Fairfax County's preparations can be found here.
In the event of a power outage, residents of Mt. Vernon should contact Dominion Power at 1-888-667-3000. More storm preparation tips from Dominion can be found here.
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One theme you will hear from me a lot is how our society is not investing in our people and that today's generations are pushing all of its obligations onto future obligations by using debt and cutting education spending (See Richmond's Attack on the Middle Class).
One more symbol of this is graduate school debt. There was an interesting article in the ABA Journal about how one-third of all law students expect to graduate with $120,000 of student loan debt. This is up from 19% of all law students just three years ago in 2006.
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Fairfax County’s public schools are one of our most valuable assets. We have a long tradition of excellent schools and talented teachers. In fact, many families move to Mount Vernon because of our quality schools. Mount Vernon's property values are significantly stabilized by having some of the best schools in the County. However, our schools are stressed by the recession’s impact on government.
In 1948, my grandparents helped create Mount Vernon’s oldest operating preschool – the Tauxemont Preschool on Fort Hunt Road. Three generations of my family have thrived at this community institution.
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Today, I attending our Pre-Session Public Hearing at the Fairfax County Government Center with most of the rest of the Northern Virginia Delegation. We heard from about 70 Northern Virginians over the course of about four hours.
Many of the people we heard from were physically or mentally disabled, their family members, or caretakers. Many people struggled through their conditions to simply speak or to relate what they go through on a daily basis, others asked us to sustain funding for Medicaid waivers just so they could have some semblance of a normal life. We heard from an eight-year old with ostogenesis imperfecta and a brain injury who spoke from her wheelchair and had the most incredible smile before, during and after her comments notwithstanding her daily struggle.
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