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From roads to furloughed feds, Va. makes big changes in veto session 04/03/2019 07:35pm • Virginia will raise truck fees and diesel taxes statewide and add gas taxes along Interstate 81 to pay for major interstate upgrades across the state and to fill a hole in Northern Virginia left by last year's Metro funding deal. The changes include more funding for the Northern Virginia Transpor Arlington County residents discuss proposed $500,000 cut to arts funding 04/03/2019 08:30am • Local performing arts may take a hit in Arlington County, Virginia, after the proposed budget for 2020 outlined major cuts to the local cultural affairs and theater programs. Officials and residents in Arlington County discussed the proposed budget Tuesday, which totals $1.3 billion, with $810 mi Big changes for Virginians possible in ‘veto session’ still shadowed by scandal 04/03/2019 04:30am • Virginia lawmakers return to Richmond on Wednesday for a series of key votes on Gov. Ralph Northam’s vetoes and amendments to bills, ranging from road safety and interstate upgrades, to the budget and elections. At the one-day reconvened session, often called a “veto session," the General Ass Lightfoot wins Chicago mayor race; pledges end to corruption 04/03/2019 04:19am • CHICAGO (AP) — Former federal prosecutor Lori Lightfoot easily won the Chicago mayor's race Tuesday, earning support from every part of the city to defeat a longtime political insider and become the first black woman and openly gay person to lead the nation's third-larges Bipartisan group of Md. lawmakers looks to help businesses meet increased minimum wage 04/02/2019 05:31pm • A Maryland state lawmaker who voted for the $15 per hour minimum wage announced she is working with a bipartisan group of legislators to ensure small- and medium-sized businesses can meet the requirements to pay the new wage by 2026. In a statement released Tuesday, state Sen. Katie Fry Hester sa Arlington's Incentive Technology Group promises 1,000 new jobs 04/02/2019 01:40pm • Arlington, Virginia-based IT consulting company Incentive Technology Group LLC will relocate its Crystal City headquarters to a larger location and create hundreds of new jobs in exchange for incentives from Virginia. The commonwealth competed against Georgia for the larger headquarters. iTG w Northam nixes online sales tax set-aside for Amazon 04/01/2019 11:00am • Gov. Ralph Northam doesn't want Virginia's online sales tax used to pay Amazon.com Inc.'s promised $750 million incentive deal. At least not yet. The legislature wanted to start collecting money in July 2020 to eventually pay Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN). The first $40 million was going to come from the States renew push for taxes on sugary drinks 04/01/2019 09:43am • HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly three decades after a U.S. state last imposed a special tax on sugary drinks, Connecticut's governor is pushing for one to help close a budget deficit — and bracing for a fight. Taxes on soda and other sugar-loaded drinks have taken effect in recent years in seve Ex-police boss gets 10-month prison sentence for tax fraud 03/29/2019 05:29pm • BALTIMORE (AP) — A Baltimore police commissioner who resigned last year after less than four months on the job was sentenced Friday to 10 months in prison for failing to file federal tax returns, a crime that ended his law enforcement career and was another headline-making embarrassment for the ci Arlington County board members running unopposed in Democratic primary 03/29/2019 03:55pm • This article was written by WTOP’s news partner, ARLnow.com, and republished with permission. Arlington County Board Chair Christian Dorsey and Board member Katie Cristol will face no Democratic challengers during this year’s primary. No additional Democratic challengers have filed for can What should you do with your company pension when you retire? 03/28/2019 08:00pm • Figuring out what to do with your company pension when you retire can be quite a bit more complicated than making a plan for your employer-sponsored 401(k) plan. Retiring workers basically have two choices when deciding what to do with their 401(k): Leave it with the company or roll it over into Md. may expand tax credits for electric vehicles 03/28/2019 12:47pm • Legislation could increase the Maryland tax credit received for electric cars to $3,000 per vehicle. Marylanders currently receive $100 times the number of kilowatt-hours of the electric vehicle's battery capacity, with a maximum of $3,000. With this bill, each new electric vehicle purchased will Metro’s summer shutdown means night noise for neighbors, fewer hotel stays 03/28/2019 04:15am • Cutting off Metro service to Virginia's Alexandria and parts of Fairfax County this summer could lead to a significant drop in hotel revenues and other spending. At the same time, Alexandria residents are concerned about potential noise from the work to remove and repair failing concrete on stati Today in History: March 28 03/28/2019 12:05am • Today is Thursday, March 28, the 87th day of 2019. Today's Highlight in History: On March 28, 1979, America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred with a partial meltdown inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pennsylvania. On this date: In 1797, Virginia may raise truck fees, gas taxes for I-81 fixes and Northern Virginia projects 03/27/2019 12:53pm • Funding for Interstate 81 upgrades could also restore money Northern Virginia lost as part of last year's Metro funding agreement, depending on a General Assembly vote next week. Late Tuesday, Gov. Ralph Northam proposed increased truck registration fees across Virginia, a higher diesel tax to mo