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Potomac Local News
by Uriah Kiser
Join Uriah Kiser, founder and publisher of Potomac Local News, for straightforward conversations about the issues that matter most to families and communities in Fredericksburg, Manassas, Woodbridge, Stafford, and across Northern Virginia. We feature in-depth interviews with local newsmakers — elected officials, community leaders, nonprofit directors, educators, and everyday residents — plus clear analysis of the headlines shaping your daily life. From local government budgets and taxes, to data centers and development, schools, elections, redistricting, crime, transportation, historic preservation, and community events, we cut through the noise to deliver real context and straight facts. No corporate spin. Just independent journalism focused on the places you live, work, and raise your family. Whether you want to stay informed on the latest board meetings, understand how policy decisions affect your wallet and neighborhood, or hear directly from the people making
Episodes
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Steve Liga on Habitat for Humanity’s 50 Years and Local Home Repairs
Subscribe to the free Potomac Local News email: https://www.potomaclocal.com/subscribe Locals Only membership: https://www.potomaclocal.com/membership Steve Liga, President and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Prince William County, joins Uriah Kiser on the Potomac Local News Podcast to talk about the...
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Kelly Sienkowski Named Ms. Stafford County Agricultural Fair Mom
Subscribe to the free Potomac Local News email: https://www.potomaclocal.com/subscribe Locals Only membership: https://www.potomaclocal.com/membership Kelly Sienkowski, longtime Potomac Local News contributor and community storyteller, joins host Uriah Kiser after winning the title of Ms.…
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Dwayne White: Army Vet Comedian on 50-State Quest and Woodbridge Shows
Comedian Dwayne White joins Uriah Kiser on the Potomac Local News podcast. White lives in the area, produces local shows, and is on a quest to perform stand-up in all 50 states by the end of 2026. He has Minnesota, Alabama, and South Dakota left — all booked. White is a 23-year combat-wounded…
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Chair Deshundra Jefferson on Reimagining Prince William: Town Halls, Data Centers, and Community Priorities
Prince William Board of County Supervisors Chair Deshundra Jefferson joins Uriah Kiser on the Potomac Local News podcast to talk about the ongoing Reimagining Prince William County town hall series. Jefferson has held facilitated listening sessions so far at the new Woodbridge Elementary School…
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UMW No. 1 in Virginia for Internships: What It Means
The University of Mary Washington just took the No. 1 spot in Virginia for internships. Michael Dunn, who runs the career center, says that ranking is a floor, not a finish line. Princeton Review’s Best Value Colleges for 2027 put Mary Washington No. 1 in Virginia for internships and No. 5 among...
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Factory of Fear: Outbreak takes over downtown Manassas
A zombie outbreak just took over a historic building in downtown Manassas, and you have to open the door yourself. Factory of Fear: Outbreak is back at ARTfactory, 9419 Battle Street, for six nights in October 2026. Potomac Local publisher Uriah Kiser talks with Lissa Unrue and Jimmy from...
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Victor Angry on reimagining Prince William: data centers, the Parkway, and the grid
Neabsco Supervisor Victor Angry joins Uriah Kiser ahead of Prince William County's Reimagining Prince William community conversations. The first session was Monday, Oct. 5, 2026, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Woodbridge Elementary School, 1550 Prince William Parkway, with Chair Deshundra Jefferson and...
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Manassas Gets a Hometown Paper Again — Six Weeks In
Manassas used to have a newspaper you could hold. Then the presses went quiet. A volunteer crew is trying to put one back in people’s hands. Uriah Kiser sits down with Amalfi Arias, six weeks into resurrecting The Manassas Journal — the name that was, for generations, the record of the city and...
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Manassas mayor seat is open. Greene says fill it with someone off the ballot
Manassas just lost its mayor months earlier than advertised — and the nameplate on the dais already said Parks. Uriah Kiser sits down with Lynn Forkell Greene, the former councilwoman running again for Manassas City Council on Nov. 3, the morning after Michelle Davis-Younger’s last meeting. The...
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Sweeney Todd Hits Riverside Center Through Oct. 25
Dessert is over. Then the razors come out. Uriah Kiser sits down with the cast of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street at Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, the Stafford County dinner theater at 95 Riverside Parkway in Fredericksburg. The Sondheim musical thriller runs Sept. 9...
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Manassas School Board Settles Brescia Suit, Drops Investigation
Manassas City School Board member Sara Brescia sued the board she sits on. Last week they settled. No money changed hands. Nobody admitted fault. The investigation order is gone — and she says colleagues had already talked about pulling her daughters out of Baldwin Elementary. Uriah Kiser sits…
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Stafford BPOL Tax Explained: What $2 Million Threshold Really Means
Stafford County is the largest locality in Virginia without a BPOL tax. The Board of Supervisors just scheduled a public hearing to bring it back. On this episode of the Potomac Local News Podcast, Uriah Kiser sits down with two people at the center of the fight: Commissioner of the Revenue Scott...
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Sold-Out on Charles Street: Chris Allen on A Downtown Affair and What’s New in FXBG
Fredericksburg Main Street executive director Chris Allen joins the Potomac Local Podcast. A Downtown Affair is sold out — we talk about what that night on the 900 block of Charles Street actually is, what the tickets fund the rest of the year, and what’s new downtown: storefronts, events, the...
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Manassas Mayor Race: Tom Osina on Davis-Younger Exit
Manassas is about to get a new mayor months earlier than anyone planned. City Councilman Tom Osina wants the job — first as the interim pick, then as the voters’ choice. Mayor Michelle Davis-Younger won a new four-year term in 2024, then announced in February she would leave two years early. The...
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Stafford Sheriff Baked Vegas Trips Into Dispatch Contract
Stafford County’s sheriff’s office wrote annual all-expenses-paid Las Vegas trips into a five-year dispatch software contract. Fredericksburg just walked away from a projected $23 million data-center payday. And a Manassas school board fight has now reached a member’s own children. On this...
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Meet Saniaa Purdie: New Reporter Covering Prince William & Stafford Schools
Support Potomac Local News Become a Member → https://potomaclocal.memberful.com/join A rising senior at Potomac Senior High School is about to become one of the most important new voices covering Northern Virginia schools this fall. Saniaa Purdie joins Potomac Local News as a student intern and...
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Manassas School Board Chaos: Member Sues Over Illegal Secret Vote
Chaos inside Manassas City Public Schools has nothing to do with educating children and everything to do with politics. School board member Sarah Brescia has filed a lawsuit claiming a majority of the board conducted an illegal electronic and telephonic vote outside public view, in clear…
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Ebony Lofton on Dumfries Town Council Race & Rose Gaming Impact
Ebony Lofton is running for Dumfries Town Council and she’s not mincing words about how Rose Gaming revenue, empty buildings, and everyday quality of life should shape the town’s future. In this Potomac Local News podcast conversation, host Uriah Kiser sits down with the longtime Dumfries…
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New Reporter for Stafford & Prince William Supervisors Joins Potomac Local
Potomac Local is expanding its coverage of the boards that set your tax rates, fund your schools, and decide the future of data centers across Northern Virginia. Meet Emilie McGinnis, the new reporter who will cover both the Prince William Board of County Supervisors and the Stafford County Board...
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Low Turnout, High Stakes: Virginia’s Delayed Primaries Explained
Virginia just wrapped an unusually late primary season, and the results are in. Retired Army Maj. Gen. Bert Mizusawa locked up the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate with about 51.5 percent. In the 7th District, Doug Ollivant dominated with roughly 57 percent. In the 10th, Dave Beckwith ran…
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Virginia Primary Results: Ollivant Wins GOP Nod in 7th District
Virginia primary night delivered clear winners in two key Northern Virginia congressional districts, and Potomac Local News has the full local breakdown. Doug Ollivant secured the Republican nomination in the 7th District after a three-way race, setting up a general-election matchup against...
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Manassas Airport Clears Federal Hurdle for Commercial Flights
Manassas Airport just cleared another federal review hurdle on the path to commercial passenger flights, while a new elementary school prepares to open and a former Stafford sheriff’s deputy faces serious federal charges. In this episode of the Potomac Local News podcast, Uriah Kiser breaks down...
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Virginia Senate Primary: David Williams on Debt & Affordability
David Williams enlisted in the Navy in Norfolk, became a Marine Corps infantry officer with two combat tours in Iraq, served as a State Department diplomat, and rose to CIA Chief of Station. Now the combat veteran and intelligence officer is running in Virginia’s August 4 Republican primary for...
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Virginia Senate Primary: Kim Farington on Fraud & Affordability
Kim Farington deferred her federal retirement after 33 years of service because she says she saw too much fraud and too many inefficiencies she could not fix under existing law. In this Potomac Local News interview, the CPA, cybersecurity and financial-management small-business owner,...
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Can a Blue-Collar Pastor Flip Virginia’s 7th District?
Rick Smithers is not currently a resident of Virginia’s 7th District—but he says he’ll move the day after the primary if voters choose him. In this Potomac Local News interview, the pastor, veteran, construction business owner, and recent public-policy doctoral graduate lays out why he’s running…
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No Rules Against AI Essays in Manassas City Schools
Manassas City Public Schools just voted 6-1 to leave the door wide open for students to use ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and every other generative AI tool to complete their homework and turn it in as their own. No explicit ban. No clear language in the Student Code of Conduct. Teachers are left…
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Can This Businessman Beat Vindman in Virginia’s 7th District?
Virginia’s 7th Congressional District is one of the tightest races in the country, and Republican primary voters head to the polls on August 4. In this Potomac Local News interview, Kelly Sienkowski sits down with Philip Harding, the businessman, former presidential fellow, and entrepreneur…
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Stafford Data Center Site May Hide Unmarked Slave Graves
Residents in Fredericksburg are spooked by a data center in Manassas — and the connection is closer than you think. On July 21, locals packed the Central Rappahannock Regional Library for a community forum titled “Are We the New Data Center Alley?” as massive server farms push south from Loudoun...
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Prayer in Schools, Bible Over Evolution: Manassas Candidate’s Record
Manassas City School Board candidate Marina Dove has spent years posting on Facebook about prayer in public schools, Bible reading, rejecting evolutionary science, and affirming traditional marriage as one man and one woman. Those posts are now front and center as she seeks the Democratic Party’s...
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Nokesville Rally: Prince William Fights Dominion Power Lines for Data Centers
Prince William County residents packed a Nokesville rally Thursday night to push back against Dominion Energy’s proposed 6.5-mile transmission line. The line would link a substation in Nokesville to another near data centers off Hornbaker Road outside Manassas. State Senators Jeremy McPike and...
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Woodbridge Parking Garage: Why Walking There Is Nearly Impossible
A brand-new parking garage sits between Sentara hospital and Wegmans in Woodbridge. It was sold as a major win for transit and drivers. Two years later, it’s still mostly empty — and nearly impossible to reach on foot or by bike. Community advocate Kevin Parker joins Uriah Kiser on the Potomac...
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Snowed In With a Killer: The Mousetrap at Riverside Center
The world’s longest-running play is right here in Stafford County. Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has landed at the Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, bringing its snowstorm, strangers, and shocking murder mystery to Fredericksburg audiences through August 23. Uriah Kiser sat down with…
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What’s Next for Manassas After Mayor Davis-Younger Steps Down?
Manassas is staring at big changes — and Eugene “Doc” Brown wants a seat at the table. In this Potomac Local News podcast interview, longtime community advocate Eugene Brown sits down with Uriah Kiser to talk about his run for Manassas City Council, the controversial 167-apartment project planned...
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Manassas School Board AI Plagiarism Fight: New Expensive Software Needed?
Canadian wildfire smoke is heading straight for Northern Virginia, bringing hazy skies and poor air quality to Stafford, Manassas, Fredericksburg and beyond. In this episode of the Potomac Local News Podcast, host Uriah Kiser breaks down the forecast, health warnings for sensitive groups, and…
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Meredith House Closing: Historic Manassas Social Club Shuts Down
Stafford County police are investigating a suspicious package, shutting down Route 1 (Richmond Highway) in the Widewater area near the Joy of Living Church. Drivers should use I-95 to avoid delays. In Manassas, the historic 165-year-old Meredith House social club is closing after a major...
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Manassas Residents Push Back on Massive Center Street Redevelopment
We break down the July 8, 2026, Architectural Review Board work session on the controversial Center Street redevelopment project in Old Town Manassas. The proposed project by Mid-Atlantic Land Group would replace the former Olde Towne Inn and MIFCO sites with ~167 multifamily apartments, a...
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Data Centers Blocked in Prince William + Stafford Tax Warning
Prince William County supervisors just delivered a major blow to another massive data center project. On July 7, 2026, the Board unanimously rejected the Dulles South Innovation Center in Gainesville — a proposed 43-million-square-foot industrial data center campus. This comes days after the...
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River & Roots Collective: Charming New Cafe, Gifts & Events in Falmouth, Virginia
Pam shares the heartfelt story behind the business — a tribute to her late mother and a full-circle journey from upstate New York back to her Virginia roots. 📍 Location: 107 Carter Street, Falmouth, VA 🕒 Open now — stop by and support this fantastic local small business! --- 👍 If you love...
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What You Need to Know: 1,940-Acre Data Center Hearing in PWC
Hey Northern Virginia, happy belated 4th of July! While many celebrated America's 250th, a new data center battle is heating up right here in Prince William County. Tomorrow, July 7, supervisors will decide on a massive 1,940-acre proposal that could transform rural Gainesville into a giant data...
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Manassas Church of the Brethren Faces Massive Data Center Buyout Offer
In this Manassas Monday edition of the Potomac Local Podcast, host Uriah Kiser sits down with Manassas City Council member Lynn Forkell Greene to discuss the future of the historic Manassas Church of the Brethren. The church, a community staple since 1895, is weighing a massive purchase offer…
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Fredericksburg Renwick Courthouse: Public Treasure or Private Sell-Off?
Former Fredericksburg City Councilman Matt Kelly joins the Potomac Local Podcast to break down the city's controversial plans for the historic Renwick Courthouse complex on Princess Anne Street. This 19th-century landmark—home to the old courthouse, jail, and Wallace Library—has been central to...
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Park City Dreamers CEO Jeremy Coleman on Pro Basketball in Prince William
Park City Dreamers CEO Jeremy Coleman on Semi-Pro Basketball in Prince William In this episode of the Potomac Local Podcast, Uriah Kiser sits down with Jeremy Coleman, CEO of the Park City Dreamers — a men's minor league professional basketball franchise right here in Prince William County.…
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Fredericksburg Rebrands as Virginia’s Innovation Crossroads
Fredericksburg Regional Alliance has officially rebranded as Virginia’s Innovation Crossroads (VIC). In this exclusive Potomac Local News podcast interview, President Tom Scott explains the new regional brand, targeted industries, and why the greater Fredericksburg area is “Built for What’s…
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Join Uriah Kiser, founder and publisher of Potomac Local News, for straightforward conversations about the issues that matter most to families and communities in Fredericksburg, Manassas, Woodbridge, Stafford, and across Northern Virginia.
We feature in-depth interviews with local newsmakers — elected officials, community leaders, nonprofit directors, educators, and everyday residents — plus clear analysis of the headlines shaping your daily life.
From local government budgets and taxes, to data centers and development, schools, elections, redistricting, crime, transportation, historic preservation, and community events, we cut through the noise to deliver real context and straight facts.
No corporate spin. Just independent journalism focused on the places you live, work, and raise your family. Whether you want to stay informed on the latest board meetings, understand how policy decisions affect your wallet and neighborhood, or hear directly from the people making
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