Loudoun County to waste taxpayer money for Website for Eastern Loudoun

The headline in Leesburg Today reads ‘County To Create Web Site For Eastern Loudoun’

What?

THIS is why governments eventually drain their citizens and cause their own collapse. They have no sense for what is NEEDED versus WANTED and just keep on spending.

Read the article yourself here: County To Create Web Site For Eastern Loudoun

They admit that the main Loudoun County Website has the information residents in eastern Loudoun might want access to, but apparently they haven’t heard that a Website resides on something called the World Wide Web, which means even residents in eastern Loudoun, or residents down here in Dulles South, can actually get to the main Website just as quickly as they could to a special new site just for them.

Of course, they’ll spend a lot more then a typical organization to create the site and surely they’ll need a full-time Webmaster to copy paste all of the info on the main site over to the new site. Then someone will need to be responsible for the maintenance of the site. And don’t forget about the additional office space these eastern Loudoun Website staffers will need to perform their duties.

Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (R-Sterling) said he was pleased to see the county moving forward on addressing the needs of eastern Loudoun residents.

“These are safety issues; these are quality of life issues,” he said. “Here our goal is to respond to the hundreds and hundreds of people who have filled out their forms. I have pushed for this. It has gotten to this point because of a lot of work on behalf of supervisors.”

Now I realize this isn’t quite like the bridge to nowhere in Alaska, but it is a lot like a Website for no reason at all. Just add a section for the Eastern Loudoun residents on the main site and while you’re at it add one for us folks down here in Dulles South as well! Quality of life!!!???

Solar shed used to house and heat water in Round Hill home

Homeowner Bruce Lawton of Round Hill installed a solar shed that looks like any other garden shed. It looks like a garden shed because it really is a garden shed.

And the government will help the homeowner pay for it. The 8-by-8-foot shed in Lawton’s yard cost just less than $7,000 after the 30% ($2,000) tax credit from the federal government.

The shed circulates water in small pipes under the roof covering to pick up the heat energy from the sun. When the water is about 8 degrees hotter than the setting on the water heater in the basement 64 feet away, the water drains down from the roof and into a 10-gallon tank next to the water heater. It transfers its heat to the water heater, and – when the sun is out and the pump kicks in – heads back to the roof for another sunbath.

Hmmm… an interesting idea.