<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Fairfax</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/metro/va/elections/fairfax?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><description>Fairfax</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax To Probe Voting Machines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54432-2003Nov17.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrats in Fairfax County joined Republicans yesterday in criticizing the performance of the county's costly new high-tech voting system, saying that it may have disenfranchised voters in the Nov. 4 election.]]></description><author> David Cho and Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hanley Ends Effort to Challenge Moran]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38623-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38623-2003Nov13.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Fairfax Board of Supervisors Chairman Katherine K. Hanley said yesterday she will not challenge U.S. Rep. James P. Moran Jr. in the Democratic primary for the 8th Congressional District and instead will leave public life in Northern Virginia, where she has been a dominating presence for two decades.]]></description><author> Michael D. Shear and Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Falls Church Backs School]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30951-2003Nov12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30951-2003Nov12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrat-backed candidates retained control of the 12-member Fairfax County School Board on Nov. 4. And that could be all that's the same between the old board and the new one.]]></description><author> S. Mitra Kalita</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[With Changes, Some Similarities]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30950-2003Nov12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30950-2003Nov12.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Voters elected two new members to the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors on Nov. 4. One is a Republican, one a Democrat, and one thing they agree on is that their experience as members of the county Planning Commission helped persuade residents to give them a seat on the board.]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Judge Orders Logs Inspected on Voting Machines]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6291-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6291-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It took more than 21 hours from the time polls closed Tuesday night for Fairfax County, the putative high-tech capital of the region, to get final election results from its new, computerized vote machines.]]></description><author> David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connolly Promises Action on Taxes]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6226-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly, the incoming Fairfax County board chairman, pledged yesterday to address homeowners' concerns about rising property tax bills by seeking more money from Richmond and working to trim spending without abandoning services that residents value.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein and Liz Seymour</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connolly Triumphs in Fairfax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1262-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1262-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly (D) won his bid to become the top elected official in Fairfax County yesterday, after a campaign in which he urged voters to trust in the wealthy suburb's steady progress and to reject the anti-tax campaign offered by Republican Mychele B. Brickner.]]></description><author> Michael D. Shear</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fairfax Voters Reject Tax-Cap Effort]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1426-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1426-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The tax revolt movement that had been gaining momentum in Northern Virginia fizzled in Fairfax County yesterday as voters rejected every board candidate who had pledged to impose a rigid cap on escalating home tax bills.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Glitches Prompt GOP Suit Over Fairfax Tabulations]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1397-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1397-2003Nov5.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Widespread problems with new touch-screen voting machines delayed  election results in Fairfax County last night and led to a legal challenge by Republican officials.]]></description><author> Eric M. Weiss and David Cho</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connolly Wins, Brickner Concedes in Fairfax Race]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63117-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63117-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Democrat Gerald E. Connolly tonight won a hard-fought campaign for the open chairmanship of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, defeating Republican opponent Mychele B. Brickner in the race to lead the region's most populous jurisdiction.]]></description><author> William Branigin</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Connolly Victory Sends Signal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1258-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1258-2003Nov4.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In electing Democrat Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly to lead Washington's largest suburb, Fairfax County voters brushed off a Republican assault on the direction of county spending and services.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[GOP Pushes For a Breakthrough]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50800-2003Nov1.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50800-2003Nov1.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Tuesday's election will show whether Virginia's Republican Party can extend a decade of political revolution to Fairfax County.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein and Michael Laris</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Both Sides in Fairfax Ratchet It Up a Notch]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48924-2003Oct31.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48924-2003Oct31.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Leading Virginia Democrats have stepped up their efforts to help Gerald E. Connolly in what some party operatives consider a tough race against Republican Mychele B. Brickner to lead the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors.]]></description><author> David Cho and Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Alliances Fueling Fairfax Race]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44293-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44293-2003Oct30.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The candidates competing to lead Fairfax County have raised $1.2 million -- a record for Washington's biggest suburban county -- by capitalizing on political friendships that the two rivals have sought to play down at times in their campaigning.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein  and Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Renovations, Classrooms In $290 Million Proposal]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34919-2003Oct29.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34919-2003Oct29.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Even with the opening of four new schools last month, about 14,000 Fairfax County students learn their lessons in trailer classrooms.]]></description><author> S. Mitra Kalita</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Practiced Outsider]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31661-2003Oct28.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A31661-2003Oct28.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Mychele B. Brickner does not consider herself a politician. She prefers the term "public servant."]]></description><author> Timothy Dwyer</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Activist Blessed With the Good Life]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26507-2003Oct27.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26507-2003Oct27.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[In this fall's race to lead Fairfax County, Gerald E. Connolly is by any conventional measure the candidate of the established political order.]]></description><author> Peter Whoriskey</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Visions Differ in Fairfax]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18106-2003Oct25.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18106-2003Oct25.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The tone is negative as voters decide who will lead a county deeply divided over whether it can maintain its enviable suburban lifestyle.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brickner, Connolly Airing Differences in Race's Final Days]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14063-2003Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A14063-2003Oct24.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The candidates for Fairfax County board chairman rolled out a series of tough television ads this week designed to contrast their records in the campaign's final days.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Warner Derides Brickner's Campaign]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61554-2003Oct21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61554-2003Oct21.html?nav=rss_metro/va/elections/fairfax</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 12:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Va. Gov. Mark R. Warner said Monday that the GOP candidate for Fairfax County's top job offers the kind of "sound-bite sloganeering" that led to Virginia's current financial crisis.]]></description><author> Lisa Rein</author></item></channel></rss>