Mayor’s kids score prestigious unpaid internships at City Hall August 8, 2014 | 2:34am No flipping burgers for the de Blasio kids. The mayor’s daughter Chiara, 19, a college student, and son Dante, 16, a soon-to-be high school senior, scored sweet summer gigs as...
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Fairfax County Executive Bryan Hill proposed a new budget Tuesday that would raise the tax rate for homeowners by 4 cents, a move driven in part by a desire for more school and transportation spending.
Annual property tax bills would go up by an average of $524 under the proposal.
Debt service payments and employee compensation also are increasing, while the county’s commercial real estate market has suffered as more people work remotely, Hill told Fairfax supervisors during his presentation. Read More...
Explore More WASHINGTON — As U.S. doctors scale back their use of opioid painkillers, a new option for hard-to-treat pain is taking root: ketamine, the decades-old surgical drug that is now a trendy psychedelic therapy.
Prescriptions for ketamine have soared in recent years, driven by for-profit clinics and telehealth services offering the medication as a treatment for pain, depression, anxiety and other conditions. The generic drug can be purchased cheaply and prescribed by most physicians and some nurses, regardless of their training. Read More...