Tom Jackman

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The university wanted to see how much trash was produced by, and could be recycled from, 7,700 people. Answer: a lot.

  • Jan 31, 2014

In the last three years, while Virginia’s population rose 3.2 percent, Northern Virginia’s population nearly doubled that.

  • Jan 28, 2014

Musician’s film documentary doesn’t get an Academy Award nomination, and Fairfax still hasn’t honored its greatest musician.

  • Jan 28, 2014

It hasn’t been cold enough for ice to be sufficiently thick to support skaters, but skaters are out anyway.

  • Jan 27, 2014

The mayor wanted the officers investigated independently, town council said no.

  • Jan 27, 2014

Three days after the chief and two others receive 60-day suspensions, the mayor reverses it. Council can override his veto.

  • Jan 24, 2014

Vehicles were in snow emergency route, but weren’t towed or obstructing anything.

  • Jan 24, 2014

Hints of sexual harassment again trail chief of six-officer department.

  • Jan 23, 2014

The spaying program is being tried in four other places with apparent success.

  • Jan 20, 2014

Despite last year’s opinion by the attorney general, the information has been kept for 6 months to 2 years.

  • Jan 17, 2014

Despite advice by Cuccinelli last year, officials use data for crime cases but try to protect citizens’ privacy.

  • Jan 17, 2014

Program helps locate lost youth, seniors with GPS technology.

  • Jan 15, 2014

The disaster relief nonprofit is developing a mobile app to connect donors and recipients more quickly.

  • Jan 14, 2014

Anti-abortion protester averts possible legal tangle by resigning rather than having board remove him.

  • Jan 13, 2014

After learning of his nominee’s colorful past, the supervisor pulls him from the Loudoun library board.

  • Jan 11, 2014

The activist recently moved to Sterling, has disrupted Obama speeches, torn Koran pages in front of White House.

  • Jan 10, 2014

Appointed by a Republican governor, the members gave 49 times more money to Republican candidates than Democratic.

  • Jan 9, 2014

The 8-year-old is the second straight FPYC runner to win the cross country championship.

  • Jan 7, 2014

After victory upgrading high school sports fields, Audubon residents are focusing on their own side of Rte. 1.

  • Jan 2, 2014

Police dig into their own pockets, find shelter and family help for mother and small children.

  • Dec 24, 2013
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About Tom
Tom Jackman is a native of Northern Virginia and has been covering the region for The Post since 1998. In 2011 he launched The State of NoVa blog, a state strictly defined as the boundaries of four counties and one city: Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and Alexandria. It's a state of 2.2 million diverse and dazzling people, in every setting from the densely packed apartment complexes of Alexandria to the great wide open of western Loudoun. It's not like DC, it's not like Maryland, and it sure ain't like the rest of Virginia. Tom works out of The Post's Fairfax bureau and welcomes all story ideas and suggestions at tom.jackman@washpost.com. Do it now, while you're thinking about it.