Advance Evening News
This evening features a look at the Stafford Supervisors' decision to approve Transportation Impact fees on new growth, and David Kerr offers a look back at the Mayflower Compact.
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Stafford Supervisors Approve Transportation Impact Fees
By Hank Silverberg
If you want to build a home, a retail business, or an industrial building in Stafford County, you will soon have to pay a new transportation impact fee.
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The Mayflower Compact
By David S. Kerr
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Founding father and second President of the United States John Adams credited the Mayflower Compact as being one of the foundation stones of the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. Other framers, including Thomas Jefferson, offered similar comments.
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