Too many Americans have been inundated with headlines about plans to take away their health care. Americans want both parties to work together on real solutions that lower costs and increase choice without exploding our debt or upending lives. Last month, we announced legislation that would accomplish this. We call our plan Medicare-X.

PWCS has met the challenge of making a school budget readable and understandable, so say examiners for the Association of School Business Officials (ASBO) International, for the 22nd consecutive year.

Congressman Gerry Connolly will hold his annual Open Season Workshop on Nov. 18, at the Fairfax County Government Center to assist federal employees and retirees in navigating through the many changes in the 2018 Federal Employees Health Benefits Plans (FEHBP), dental and vision insurance programs.

On Nov. 16, the co-founders of KO Distilling in Manassas rang a merchant ship’s bell celebrating the completion of a $900,000 expansion which has more than tripled their production capacity and will create more jobs.

Parents and students from across Prince William County can get all of their financial aid for college questions answered at “Super Saturday” events to be held on Saturday, Nov. 18, 9 a.m. to noon at: Stonewall Jackson High School, 8820 Rixlew Lane, Manassas; and Freedom High School, 15201 Neabsco Mills Road, Woodbridge.

On Tuesday, Nov. 14, the Flory Small Business Center, Inc. in partnership with Stratford University in Woodbridge will facilitate a Start-Up Small Business Workshop presented by Linda Decker, President and CEO of the Flory Small Business Center, Inc.

Oyster farmers are as important to Virginia agriculture as the farmers who plant corn and soybeans or raise beef or chicken on dry land. While all of agriculture contributes $91 billion a year to Virginia’s economy, the dockside value of the oyster harvest alone was $35.8 million in 2016, up from $28 million in 2014.

Prince William area residents can sign the recycling pledge at the library, or visit https://americarecyclesday.org/pledge/ and take the pledge on line by November 20.