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Callie Steele, 3, of Burke, delights in the concert. (By Dayna Smith For The Post)

A taxpayer-funded summer concert at Royal Lake Park is one of many continuing in Fairfax despite the economic crisis. As they make difficult budget choices, local leaders are struggling to justify smaller programs that define communities.

Ken Meyercord, 65, is running unopposed for the Reston Citizens Association. Some have mounted a write-in campaign because of his views about the Holocaust.

In 1785, the cornerstone for the Virginia Capitol was laid. More than 200 years later, Thomas Jefferson's original building has weathered its second major restoration and expansion campaign.
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Candidate's 'Holocaust Revisionist' Views Spark Reston Write-In Campaign

Ken Meyercord has an Ivy League education, a high-tech job at Freddie Mac, a local public-access cable television show on international affairs and a long history of writing about what he says are "myths" of the Holocaust, including a piece called "(Holo-) History is Bunk."

Va. Governor Spends 1½ Days of Workweek on DNC Duties

RICHMOND -- Timothy M. Kaine said he has been spending a day and a half of each workweek handling fundraising and policy matters for the Democratic National Committee, a departure from his pledge to conduct most of his national party work by phone and fax and restrict it largely to evenings and...

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Ken Meyercord has an Ivy League education, a high-tech job at Freddie Mac, a local public-access cable television show on international affairs and a long history of writing about what he says are "myths" of the Holocaust, including a piece called "(Holo-) History is Bunk."

RICHMOND -- Timothy M. Kaine said he has been spending a day and a half of each workweek handling fundraising and policy matters for the Democratic National Committee, a departure from his pledge to conduct most of his national party work by phone and fax and restrict it largely to evenings and...