Hot spots, riots, and doughnuts: The most viewed PLN stories of 2020
Updated at January 2, 2021 - Uriah Kiser Potomac Local News President Publisher Uriah Kiser
For my family, 2020 was an exciting year, one where we welcomed our first child’s birth. It was a life-changing experience bringing her into the world one for which we had spent much of 2019 preparing.
My wife took maternity leave the last week of January in preparation for our little girl, who was supposed to arrive about Valentine’s Day. When she was born, and at the end of her maternity leave, my wife planned to go back to work. I, too, planned to get back into the swing of things at my job.
Hotel stays, vital to Prince William pandemic recovery, are down Image: Prince William County Government
The coronavirus pandemic continues to hurt the hotel industry in Prince William County.
The county’s hotel occupancy spiked a bit in October but has fallen into a slump, exasperated by the lack of traveling this holiday season due to the coronavirus pandemic.
According to the Prince William County Economic Development Authority, hotel stays increased slightly in October 2020 as occupancy rates averaged 54.3%, up from 53% in the previous month. Over the holidays, however, hotel traffic slowed down. According to the same report from the Economic Development office, transient occupancy tax collections a tax paid by hotel guests are down nearly $300,000 in the third quarter of 2020 compared to the last quarter.
Updated at December 13, 2020 - Uriah Kiser Caroll Foy
Heather Mitchell will make another run for Special Election for Virginia’s 2nd House District, which could happen as soon as early January.
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This will be the second time Mitchell, a Republican, has campaigned for the seat. She lost in November 2019 to incumbent Jennifer Carroll Foy (D), Prince William County, who has held the seat since 2017.
Carroll Foy announced she would step down from the seat to devote her full attention to her campaign for state governor, which she launched a statewide bus tour in Spring 2019 a precursor to her gubernatorial campaign at the same time she sought reelection to her House of Delegates seat.