....or is it just me?

Why now all of a sudden they are putting news behind a paywall?

Maybe they are finally catching on we clear our cookies and read on for free anyways....

WP is using a paywall now because like virtually every other mainstream news outlet, they are strapped for cash. Nobody really buys into their bullshit anymore.

They know about and object to the way you masturbate, and I have to say, it's disgusting. I know because I have a subscription. You repulse me.

Bezos was getting beat up with Chrome incognito.

Fuck the asshole and his libtard propaganda.

Newspapers are struggling because nobody buys their libtard propaganda anymore. Fuck em, let em go bankrupt.

Incognito mode got me their top story of the day


This model of wealthy suburban living is starting to fray
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By Antonio Olivo April 2 at 7:10 PM

A sign alerts trail walkers in Fairfax County’s Roundtree Park to the remains of a bridge that washed out near Holmes Run. With a mounting backlog of deferred maintenance, there are no immediate plans to fix it. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
For decades, Fairfax County has been a national model for suburban living, a place of good governance and elite schools that educate children from some of the country’s richest neighborhoods.

But Virginia’s largest municipality is fraying around the edges.

A population that is growing older, poorer and more diverse is sharpening the need for basic services in what is still the nation’s second-wealthiest county, even as a sluggish local economy maintains a chokehold on the revenue stream.

Since the 2008 recession, local officials have whittled away at programs to the tune of $300 million. They now say that there is no fat left to trim.

Instead, they are searching for ways to raise taxes, draw new businesses and revitalize worn neighborhoods. Their effort mirrors the struggle of aging suburban communities nationwide, as a turn-of-the century economic boom settles into a sluggish post-recession status quo.


“You have to ask these questions and start the regeneration process when times are good,” said Gerald Gordon, head of Fairfax’s Economic Development Authority. “You can’t wait for them to collapse.”

From boom to bust
Such worries were unthinkable 20 years ago, when Fairfax was completing its transformation from a sleepy suburb near Washington’s federal jobs to an economic powerhouse that now includes eight Fortune 500 companies.

Since 1980, the county’s population has nearly doubled to 1.1 million residents, with palatial new residences in such areas as Great Falls and Lorton pushing up the median price of a single-family home to $492,000 last year. And household income has climbed from a median of about $54,000 in the mid-1980s to $111,000 today.

With that growth came sparkling new schools, recreational facilities and an expanded park system that boasts 324 miles of pedestrian trails. Fairfax opened its own gift shop (selling county logo-embossed shirts, tote bags and hats), launched an international children’s festival and built a 675,000-square-foot government complex overlooking an “ellipse” park modeled after the one near the White House, 21 miles away.

Then came the recession, with unprecedented, multimillion-dollar shortfalls in a budget that had grown to more than $3 billion a year.


Since 2008, the county has eliminated 700 jobs. Libraries operate on shorter schedules and with fewer books, class sizes have swelled past 32 students in some schools and so many educators have left for better-paid positions elsewhere that the system was short 200 teachers last fall.

County agencies are stretching out vehicle maintenance — including for school buses and fire engines — and officials say aging athletic courts and deteriorating playgrounds await nearly $20 million in repairs.

The gift shop closed in 2010. The children’s festival died the next year, as did a $1.2 million college tuition-assistance program for school employees. The county slashed $3.8 million in summer school funding in 2015 and is trying to use $374,000 less in paper this year.

“There is a tipping point, and I think we’re reaching it,” said Jane K. Strauss (Dranesville), a school board member since the early 1990s who chairs the panel’s budget committee. “You don’t collapse overnight. It’s a little cut here, a little here, a little here, and, then, people start to walk away.”

On a recent afternoon, 26-year-old Daniel Ortiz and two cousins played basketball at Jefferson District Park, in the Falls Church area. A two-inch-wide crack in the asphalt stretched above the free-throw line. Nearby, a cinder-block practice wall for tennis players was pocked with holes and flaking green paint.


Weeds grow in a widening asphalt crack on a basketball court at Jefferson District Park. Officials say athletic courts and playgrounds are in need of nearly $20 million in repairs. (Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post)
“That’s a tripping hazard,” Ortiz said in Spanish, pointing to the deteriorating court, which park officials say was last resurfaced in 2011. “This is a nice community. They should really fix that.”

Karen Kressin often finds herself with the same thought as she makes her rounds for the Park Authority, using her county-issued iPad to flag needed repairs. In mid-March, she stopped at the remnants of a pedestrian bridge that had washed out in December. There are no immediate plans to fix it.

I wonder what they did with the billions of dollars they collected in taxes over the last 20 years? Apparently nothing. My guess would be they spent it on themselves.

WonderingOne Wrote:
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> I wonder what they did with the billions of
> dollars they collected in taxes over the last 20
> years? Apparently nothing. My guess would be they
> spent it on themselves.


Because blacktop lasts forever. Because schools last for 1000 years. Because bridges are all made of titanium and maintained annually.

OR

Stuff wears out and needs to be replaced. RightTards...

Take a look around at who inhabits your county these days. We allowed in a bunch of users and comparatively few contributors. Not that hard to figure out.

Lol!!!

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