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Virginia governor, General Assembly leaders plan press conference tomorrow at heart of Fredericksburg battlefield Date published: 3/23/2009 By Clint Schemmer Kaine, lawmakers Gov. Tim Kaine will be the keynote speaker tomorrow at a news conference on battlefield preservation in the Old Dominion. Kaine will visit historic Slaughter Pen Farm on the Fredericksburg battlefield, where Union forces briefly broke through Confederate Lt. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's line before being repulsed during the Battle of Fredericksburg in 1862. Joining Kaine will be Del. Bill Howell, R-Stafford, the speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates; state Sen. Edd Houck, D-Spotsylvania; and Civil War Preservation Trust President James Lighthizer. Kathleen Kilpatrick, director of the state Department of Historic Resources, will emcee the event. Slaughter Pen Farm is one of many historic sites that have benefited from the Virginia Historic Battlefield Preservation Fund, created by the commonwealth in the Kaine administration's first year. Kaine and lawmakers will review this public-private partnership's accomplishments and discuss the challenges that remain. The event will begin at 10 a.m. The public is invited. People are urged to arrive early, by 9:30 a.m., since there is only one entrance to the farm on Tidewater Trail (Routes 2 and 17) south of Fredericksburg in Spotsylvania County. The farm lane is just south of Shannon Airport. --Clint Schemmer
A slow, tedious ride from Washington, with delays, and the 2 1/2 hour ride is like a maximum sentence.
that the overwhelming majority of non-riders of VRE should pay for the few that moved into Spotsy for cheaper housing. Under your logic, if any of the riders are from Essex Co., that county should join, raise taxes on all residents, and sign a contract you can't escape from. C'mon man, your argument holds no water and stinks of Sierra club liberalism.
JoetheAmerican—Transportation is a regional issue. We have over 100,000 vehicles passing through the City each day and over 1,000 commuters looking for parking. Do you think they are all city residents? Wiseman—You have been commenting on VRE and haven’t spent anytime actually looking into how it operates? I’d ask readers of these posts to take that into consideration when looking at your comments. Don’t ask me to do your homework for you.
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