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percent of total sales, which he called a “pro-business decision.”
He got approval for tax relief for Fauquier’s elderly, helped push through a measure that will make generic drugs the north in pharmacies, voted against seniors paying a $4 salt-water fishing license, helped restore $185,000 to the state agricultural lab in Warrenton and voted to spend $175,000 in area gypsy-moth spraying programs.
He also voted to restore money for the Extension Service, the Virginia Commission for the Arts and for a bill that allows wineries to establish restaurants.
Unemployment
rate increases
The January unemployment rate in Rappahannock was 13.9 percent, up from 10.3 percent in December but lower than last January’s 16.1 percent, according to figures released by the Culpeper Office of the Virginia Employment Commission.
Of a total labor force of 3,362, there were 466 persons in the county looking for work.
Other January rates: Culpeper, . 12.9 percent; Fauquier, 6.3 percent;" Planning District 9, 9.1 percent; Virginia, 7.1 percent; U. S., 8 percent. <*
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90.3%