A tale of two cities 25 years apart: Debate over unemployment benefits in Northern Virginia echoes the one in Martinsville in 2000

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A tale of two cities 25 years apart: Debate over unemployment benefits in Northern Virginia echoes the one in Martinsville in 2000

Want more political news and analysis? Sign up for our weekly political newsletter, West of the Capital, which goes out Friday afternoons: Sign up The major industry in a company town starts downsizing in a major way. The community is thrown into turmoil and fears the local economy will be devastated. It turns to the state government for help.That scenario — playing out right now in Northern Virginia w…