Herndon High Student Earns Journalism Honor

Dev will represent Virginia at 2013 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University.

Reston's Navya Dev, a student at Herndon High School, has been nominated to represent Virginia as a National Youth Correspondent to the 2013 Washington Journalism and Media Conference at George Mason University. Dev will join a select group of 250 students from across the country to participate in an intensive week-long study of journalism and media, according to a release about the program. National Youth Correspondents participate in hands-on learning and explore the creative, practical, and ethical tensions in journalism and media, the release said. The week-long program is held from July 7 to 12 at George Mason University.

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Forty Report Illness at George Mason

Suspected food poisoning among teens at summer program reported at university.

Fuller Calls Metro Loudoun's Fork in the Road

Rail decision could make Loudoun a permanent bedroom community or an enviable economic engine, according to regional land use analyst.

A man considered by many leaders in the region to be an expert on land use patterns and their economic impacts — and by some to be a developer shill — released a study that Monday that has supporters of the Dulles Corridor Metrorail Project salivating and opponents scathing. According to the report, without rail, Loudoun would forego $263.6 billion in gross county product (GCP) from 2020-2040, with $25.6 billion of it foregone in 2040 alone. According to the study by Stephen S. Fuller, the director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, Loudoun’s decision whether to participate in Metro’s Silver Line project has two vastly different potential outcomes: one of a wholly suburban county with the type of commercial …

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