Morning Minute

Conflicting federal regulations threaten 150 jobs for people with disabilities at Every Citizen Has Opportunity; Loudoun's Olympic delegation is going for green.

Loudoun's freshmen legislators have jumped into the fray in the General Assembly; county transportation staff recommend some short-term improvements for Sycolin Road.

Tolls are going up on the Greenway again; a study finds Loudouners lag behind on charitable giving.

The 2019 race for Board of Supervisors is off to an early start; a man is arrested in Texas for a 2015 assault that left a teen paralyzed.

The Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce celebrates 50 years; the Planning Commission looks at an application to build the biggest gas station in Loudoun County on Rt. 15.

Leesburg Town Council members tell county supervisors: If you're going to build that stadium, make sure you build the roads for it. John Miller IV gets a year in jail.

Broadband internet comes to Hillsboro; the School Board debates how it decides whether to close down a school.

Good news for Rt. 7 commuters; the Leesburg Town Council will once again consider allowing food trucks more places in Leesburg.

Van Metro proposes a 200,000 square foot shopping center in Leesburg; Loudoun heads toward a program to finance clean energy projects.

On the school system's wishlist or next year: More security, new security equipment, and contracting private security; county supervisors take the next step to bring D.C. United to Loudoun.

County supervisors approve a data center complex on the banks of Goose Creek; Northern Virginia (probably meaning Loudoun) is on Amazon's short list for its new headquarters.

Four months after unveiling a renovated, 126-year-old one-room schoolhouse, the Loudoun School for the Gifted breaks ground on a new school; a behavioral health care center employee is charged in the death of a teenaged patient.

A proposal to pay for Metro could end up raising taxes and stripping transportation funding in Loudoun; Purcellville hires a different retired police chief to oversee the audit of the investigation into its police chief.

A year after the School Board voted not to protect employees from discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, LGBT advocates haven't given up; the Planning Commission votes no on a controversial application to put a day care in Old Ashburn.

The Board of Supervisors takes the first public steps to bring a professional soccer team to Loudoun; Leesburg will be getting 59 new townhouses; and the county moves ahead with widening Rt. 15.

Purcellville fills another empty seat on an interim basis; Loudoun has the first chairman on the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments since 1983.

The school superintendent lays out his $1.2 billion spending plan; dirt is moving at the future campus of Paul VI Catholic High School.

This afternoon, we'll get a look from the county's largest single employer at the county government's largest expense: The school budget. And school's delayed two hours today, go back to bed.

Two Loudoun middle schoolers are among only 35 people statewide who will be going to Richmond as House of Delegates pages this year; the new year brings some change in leadership on the Board of Supervisors.

Next year's budget could come with a tax cut; a woman is sentenced to four years in prison over the overdose death of her friend.

Loudoun County increases by half the funding it sets aside for nonprofits; two more Purcellville town employees are placed on leave.

Commuters on the Dulles Greenway could be getting good news about congestion; Middleburg mulls over what to do about restaurant garbage piling up.

DC United could soon find a new home in Loudoun; a Leesburg brewer hopes to show the town council the value of food trucks downtown.

Loudoun's court system could be getting some much-needed help; Washington football safety Su'a Cravens says he was racially profiled by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.

An audit of school system finances turns up wide disparities in activities funds; Leesburg warns some residents to boil their water before drinking it.