Patch Blogs: Tax Tips, Student Achievement and Birds

Patch has welcomed several new bloggers to our Local Voices section in the past few weeks. Here’s a sampling of some of the blogs posted in the past week on Patch.

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IRS Offers Top 10 Tax Time Tips - The end of the tax filing season is almost here. Even though your tax return is not due until April 15, you can make tax time easier on yourself by starting now. Here are 10 important tips to ensure a smooth process.

Give Corporations a Tax Break and Cut Education to Balance the Budget? No thank you. - Rep. Frank Wolf's Support of Paul Ryan's Budget drew protestors to march on his office in Winchester. 

- When was the last time you went up to a stranger and introduced yourself? When was the last time you made a conscious effort to make someone’s day, rather than just text them a smiley? So ask yourselves are you online, or in-life?

Toward Better Measures of Student Achievement - We have just begun discussing the PISA data, but there is one early take-away for me.  The PISA test itself is far superior to anything I’ve seen in our VA SOL tests.

Fairfax County Aerial Spraying Jeopardizes Bird Populations - On behalf of the more than 4,000 members of the Audubon Society of Northern Virginia, we are writing to express our concerns about Fairfax County plans to spray for fall cankerworms in the Mount Vernon and Lee districts of the county. 

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