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The Newport News Department of Engineering will soon reconfigure the intersection of Oriana Road and Warwick Boulevard to eliminate the east/west through movement to prevent vehicles from travelling across Warwick Boulevard.
Traveling for official city business is often part of a city council member’s job, allowing an elected official to gain insight on how peers in other cities and countries are handling a variety of issues. But with travel come expenses that are often paid for by taxpayers. The expenses cities cover on council members’ behalf make up only a small fraction of overall budgets, but without ...
To learn more about how city council members are spending taxpayer dollars, The Virginian-Pilot and Daily Press filed Freedom of Information Act requests asking for all expenses that six Hampton Roads cities paid for city council members in 2023. Total expenses range from about $41,000 in Newport News to $12,400 in Norfolk.
Speakers have been regularly attending area City Council meetings, calling for a cease-fire. Tuesday, in Norfolk the Mayor ended a meeting early after a speaker went over and in Hampton, there was back and forth between residents on the violence in Gaza.
Rockville, Maryland-based TM Associates plans to develop affordable housing at 100 29th St. and 311 33rd St. The company hopes to begin construction for the projects by Labor Day and expects construction to take about a year.